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Brian Cooper is chief creative officer of Oliver Group UK. He has held executive creative director posts at Dare, Ogilvy and Wieden+Kennedy, working on Nokia. He led Apple’s iAd business in Europe and is one of the few creatives to ...

Leo Burnett has produced its annual Cannes Predictions, claiming a track record of 84 per cent for them. So you don’t need to go! The work was selected by Leo Burnett global CCO Mark Tutssel and is on the agency ...

Josh DiMarcantonio is ECD and a partner at independent communications agency Zambezi, based in Culver City California. It pairs leaders from traditional advertising agencies with experts in digital, film, television, music, sports and strategic marketing. Before joining Zambezi DiMarcantonio held ...

Matt Charlton is CEO of independent London agency Brothers and Sisters. Before that He was joint founder and CEO of BETC in London, worldwide president of Modernista, managing director of TBWA in London and a global business director at BBH, ...

Stéphane Xiberras (below) has been president and CCO of BETC Paris since 2007. BETC Paris is, by any measure, one of the very best creative agencies in the world and Xiberras is in charge of one of its signature accounts, ...

Daniel Fisher is ECD of The Martin Agency in London. Fisher was formerly deputy ECD at adam&eveDDB where he worked on, among others, John Lewis’ ‘Monty the Penguin’ and its big 2014 Cannes award winner Harvey Nichols’ ‘Sorry I Spent ...

Neil Dawson is global executive creative director, Nissan United at TBWA\Chiat Day in New York. Before that he was ECD of BETC in London and a senior creative at agencies including DDB, Ogilvy and BBH. It’s week five at my ...

Lucky Generals is one of the hottest newbie agencies in the UK, handling Paddy Power, Twitter and new client Premier Inns among others. Here co-founder and strategist Andy Nairn (below) gives his Top Tips for Cannes. Call Sweden Those crazy ...

Whatever you think about the Cannes Lions – and awards as a whole – it does seem to concentrate minds when you try to come up with the best ads and likely award winners (let’s call them ads for now, ...