Comms Council reveals 2022 Effies judges

AUCKLAND, Today: The 2022 Aotearoa Effie Awards are getting closer – with both preliminary and category judging now completed.

Next up is the executive judging round, bringing together NZ marketers and an international marketer from Australia, to be held on Tuesday 11 of October. The Effie Awards show will be held on Thursday 20 October (venue ytba).

This year’s executive judging panel is Allison Yorston (Frucor Suntory), Amy Phillips (BNZ), Jodi Williams (TAB NZ), Jonathan Symons (TVNZ), Michael Healy (Meridian) … and joining them this year from Sydney, Yash Gandhi (Baiada).

Yash Gandhi has 14 years’ experience in the ad industry, including a decade at M&C Saatchi Australia.

Yash Gandhi is the head of marketing at one of Australia’s leading companies in the primary industries, Baiada Group, which owns the Steggles and Lilydale Free Range brands.

As a commercial marketer, he has won numerous marketing effectiveness and creative awards for the brands he leads.

He has 14 years’ experience in the ad industry, including over a decade at M&C Saatchi Australia.

The sponsors
The 2022 Aotearoa Effie Awards in association with TVNZ are sponsored by commercial partner oOh!media, along with NZME, Nielsen, The Radio Bureau, Google, Cartology, Neuro-Insight, NZ Story, Meta, and Stuff.

• View all Effie finalists here
• More here: commscouncil.nz