Director
Isobar & Response

Mohenesh is the highest globally & locally awarded media planner in Sri Lanka. He's currently the Director for Isobar & Response at the Dentsu Aegis Network. Formerly he served as the A/Director – Digital Strategy at GroupM, And to that he was the “Head of Digital” for Team Unilever & Mindshare (2015 to 2017). Locally he has also won the only Effie Gold to date that was driven digitally and the only person to be a part of 3 Effie GOLD winning teams among the 50+ global & local accolades he has bagged during his carrier to date. He’s the highest globally-published thought leader in the field of marketing in Sri Lanka, where many of his think pieces have been featured on some of the largest and reputed publications in the world. Thanks to over 400 articles, lectures, conference appearances, and a few quotes and articles that got shared, he's now one of the most followed within the industry.

Why I am judging the awards ...“In judging, the one thing I look forward to is: Does it catch the heart, eye, and mind? To be honest, I hope to see something unexpected. Ideas that I’ve not seen before, executed beautifully”

Judging panel

Thomas Wolf

Head of Online Marketing & CRM
Foodpanda

Dawn Chan

International Business Director
South China Morning Post

Jenn Villalobos

Chief Digital and Technology Officer
Prudential Thailand

Asha Gourinath

Lead For Digital Marketing & CRM | Growth Markets For SEA
Grab

Naomi Rajendram

Head of Marketing Technologies (MarTech)
PwC South East Asia

Sonal Patel

Managing Director, SEA 
Quantcast

PRERNA MEHROTRA

Managing Director Media Group
DAN Singapore

Laura Quigley

Senior Vice President, APAC
Integral Ad Science

Athreyan Sundararajan

Vice President, Marketing & Brand Services
WarnerMedia SEAP

Ravi Shankar

Global Head of Digital Marketing
AirAsia

Jo Bjordal

Chief Marketing Officer
Zalora

Jennifer Chase

vice president, digital sales, solutions & operations
Mediacorp

Phillip Cowlishaw

head of adobe advertising cloud for asia pacific
Adobe

Avery Akkineni

Head
VaynerMedia

John Matthews

Director of media and partnerships
Streamotion

Sidharth Bhasin

Associate director, media procurement APAC
Johnson & Johnson

Allison Coley

Chief Client Officer, Asia-Pacific Global Client Lead, Huawei
Wavemaker

James Sampson

regional head, partnerships & strategy
GrabAds at Grab

Michel De Rijk

ceo, apac
S4Capital

Steve Ford

Head of APAC Sales
Twitch

Bob Du

Managing Director, Singapore
Jellyfish

Marc Langenfeld

APEX Regional Lead, APAC
Publicis Media

Cindy Tan

VP, Display, APAC
TripAdvisor

Stephen Li

CEO, Asia Pacific
OMD

Diogo Andrade

Head of automation
Spotify

Mohenesh Chamith Buthgumwa

Director
Isobar & Response

Niall Hogan

Managing Director SEA,
Ogury

Silas Lewis-Meilus

head of media, apac
GSK Consumer Health

Vivian Yeung

managing director
MediaCom Singapore