The Irish Audio Awards selects its juries with insight and guidance from the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design, alongside some of the best, most highly respected, and consistently awarded creatives in the industry. Drawing from this experience, the Irish Audio Awards assembles juries who are qualified to assess, recognise and award the most exceptional work. The juries are assembled with a varied set of experience in mind and are equipped to evaluate work fairly and effectively.
Each year, the jury comprises four creatives; two practising outside Ireland, one Irish jury chair, and one audio craft specialist. The juries are empowered to award to the best of their ability, and as such, the Irish Audio Awards have no access whilst they deliberate. Similarly, The Irish Audio Awards is not privy to decision making rationale and have no input into the results. Find out more about this year's jurors below. Click here to find out more about the entry process.
Mark Shanley, Creative Director
at adam&eveDDB
Mark often finds his middle-of-the-road dad rock interrupted by bad advertising. So he’s excited to listen to some good advertising when he judges the Irish Audio Awards. Mark is Executive Creative Director at adam&eveDDB in London. He has made lots of ads and won lots of awards for brands like Nike, Pot Noodle, The V&A Museum, John Lewis, Amazon, McDonald’s, TK Maxx and many many more.
Ginevra Capece Galeota, Global Creative
Partner at PWR House
Ginevra has been navigating the evolution of classic TV advertisement to the fast-paced digital landscape, from ECD to then Global Creative Director at Meta. She has created and crafted Creative work for tech pioneers like Apple and IBM, as well as for iconic fashion and Beauty brands, for which she earned several Awards. From Outdoor to Feed, always driven by a design centric approach where the essence lies not only in the originality of the story, but in uncovering truths for authentic connections with the audience. She defines her creative thought-process as chaotic, rarely linear! and feels that her work only gets better with life balance and has moved to Italy a few years ago to stay close to her family, giving more depth to her work and life. Currently at Spotify to explore connections between Culture, Brands and audio.
Jack Smedley, Executive Creative Director
at Le Pub Milan
I’m an executive creative director at Le Pub Milan. Before that I was a creative director at AMV BBDO. Before that I was at BBH London. Before that isn’t relevant. OK fine… I was once a children’s entertainer, but best not to dwell on that. Since then I’ve done a few things that changed a law, been exhibited in the Design Museum and won over 70 industry awards including Cannes Lions, D&AD pencils and Webbys. When I’m not advertising, you’ll find me running, messing around with technology and teaching myself to animate.
Simon Bird, Sound Designer, Composer
& Mix Engineer at Floating Waves
Co-founder of the creative-audio studio Folding Waves, Simon Bird is a two-time Emmy nominated sound designer, music composer / producer, and post-production mix engineer based in Dublin. Along with his colleagues Damian Molony & Mark Bergin, Simon's work with Folding Waves has received international-award recognition, both in the categories of sound design and original music composition - with their output principally focused on short form, audio-visual content for commercial advertising, narrative storytelling & moving image.