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Eugene Demata
Executive Creative Director, DM 9 Di9it

Eugene Demata is the Executive Creative Director of DM9JaymeSyfu and just recently moved to DI9IT, a DM9JaymeSyfu's Interactive Company as its Executive Creative Director. Before this, he was the Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Manila.

Eugene is a Hall of Fame awardee of the Creative Guild of the Philippines and has served as its Competition Chairman for four consecutive years.

He is also instrumental in driving DM9JaymeSyfu in becoming Philippines hottest creative agency, winning Philippines’ first-ever Cannes Grand Prix for Smart "TXTBKS" and first Cannes Media Lion, putting the agency in 2010 Campaign Brief Asia’s "Number 1 Most Creative Agency in the Philippines" in just 4 years of its operation and won Campaign Asia’s Agency of the Year in 2012.

He has already won major awards from local and international advertising festivals including Cannes, Clio, New York Festivals, London International Advertising Festivals, D&AD, Spikes, ADFEST, One Show, AME, EPICA, ADSTARS, Philippine Ad Congress, Creative Guild of the Philippines and acceptances from Luerzers Archive, Communication Arts and Campaign Brief Asia's The WORK.

Eugene is also an in demand judge in different Philippine advertising competitions and has judged in international competitions like ADFEST (Outdoor category), SPIKES (Design category) and as part of NEW YORK FESTIVALS Grand Jury (Outdoor category) and ADSTARS.

In addition to these, he has managed to set aside times to serve the industry by heading Philippines' Agency of the Year Creative category, ARAW Values awards Creative committee and holding speaking engagements in different schools around the Philippines.

Eugene Demata
Executive Creative Director, DM 9 Di9it

Noel San Juan
Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Philippines

With a career that spans more than two decades, Noel has been a part of McCann Erickson, Lowe Inc., JWT and Publicis Jimenez Basic before taking the Executive Creative Director post at Dentsu Philippines. He has lent his creative vision to major brands such as Toyota, Greenwich, Sunsilk and Ajinomoto, earning recognition from local and international award-giving bodies along the way.

Noel San Juan
Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Philippines

Tom Stratford
Art Director, iAcademy

Tom Stratford was the developer and head of the CGI Department at the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines. He has successfully launched the school's one-year diploma in 3D Animation in October 2012. Currently, he is the Art Director of iAcademy.

Tom has a First Class Honors degree in Computer Visualization and Animation from Bournemouth University. His animation 'BE4T BOXES' was shortlisted for the finals of Channel Four's "Estings" competition. It was among the final 18 selected from over 1,500 entries and has been played during commercials on the digital channel 4 since September 2011. On late 2013, he will appear in a TV show entitled "Style Wars"as a resident Photoshop Expert.

He has worked as an artist on five critically and commercially successful videogame titles. The first game he worked on, Race Driver: GRID, won a BAFTA for best sports game in 2008.

Tom Stratford
Art Director, iAcademy

Howard Vitas
Creative Consultant, iAcademy

Graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, 1994-1995 with a Bachelor of Arts & Architecture Degree

Present work is at Mohri & Associates, a Japanese Architectural Firm as a design consultant

Howard Vitas
Creative Consultant, iAcademy

Dani Mojica
Managing Director, Print Orange

Dani Mojica is the CEO of Print Orange. PRINTORANGE was born in 2008. Taking advantage of the latest Digital Printing Technology, the new printshop with a unique name and branding identity provided its existing clients with high-quality, short-run printing for their "rush" projects. Today, Print Orange Creative Print Solutions services clients from various industries such as food and beverage, retail, automotive, media, events management, education, pharmaceutical, advertising among others.

Dani Mojica
Managing Director, Print Orange

Myles Delfin
Graphic Design Association of the Philippines

Myles Delfin worked as a Creative Director and Design Principal for Bloat & Ogle New Media Design based in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines. He has handled clients such as Procter & Gamble GBS, Nickelodeon Philippines, Purefoods, ABS-CBN Licensing, among others.

Myles also designed identity for brands such as Pandango Design, Fruits in IceCream (FIC), Angelati Italia, and Brasas among others.

He has also worked as Freelance Documentary Photographer for Saatchi & Saatchi (SMART Communiations and Lactum) and others. Contributed editorial content for nationally-distributed magazines and broadsheets. He also managed live events for Team Asia and other clients; and produces HD video content for broadcast and digital.

Myles Delfin
Graphic Design Association of the Philippines

Apple Manansala
Sales and Marketing Head, Adobo Magazine

Apple Manansala is the current head of Sales and Marketing for Adobo Magazine and at the same time the Vice- President of Finance and Business Development for PuzzleBox BPO, INC., a company that delivers outsourcing solutions.

As part of Adobo Magazine, Apple shares the vision of the magazine to be the go-to mag of the country for everything that concerns advertising and marketing. She is in the fore-front of the magazine’s campaign to even be known all over Southeast Asia.

Apple is also the owner and designer of her own jewelry line “Private Pop Avenue” that specializes in statement jewelries.

She has worked with SM Supermalls as a Lease Marketing Officer and with Galileo Enrichment Learning Program Inc., as a Marketing Manager.

Apple Manansala
Sales and Marketing Head, Adobo Magazine

Zeno Martinez
Associate Publisher, Pinay Media Planner

Zeno Martinez is an Out-Of-Home media practitioner, event designer and a management consultant. He is the Associate Publisher of Pinay Media Planner (www.pinaymediaplanner.com), an independent online magazine dedicated to celebrating the Filipino Media Planner. Pinay Media Planner shares the things that concern the everyday media planner, as well as news about advertising practitioners and special news in the industry

Pinay Media Planner - Born to shop. Forced to work.

Ideal life: Shop, dine, shop, dine. Massage. Travel, travel, travel.

Real life: Fairy godmother to my clients (which include colleagues in creative agencies), sometimes Wicked Witch to media suppliers. Deep down inside - a Princess, Media Diva.

I am a Pinay Media Planner. I am you.

Zeno Martinez
Associate Publisher, Pinay Media Planner

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