Bobby Pawar, Manish Bhatt and Ashish Chakravarty on Goafest Creative Abbys Jury

Pawar, Bhatt and Chakravarty will chair the Print Communication Jury, Brand Activation Jury and Radio/Radio Craft Jury, respectively.

The Goafest Creative Abbys, which recognise creative excellence in advertising and marketing, have announced the second set of Jury for the Goafest Creative Abbys. The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has announced the Jury Chairs for Print, Radio/Radio Craft, and Brand Activation verticals.

Bobby Pawar, managing director and chief creative officer, Publicis Communications, will chair the Print Communication Jury, while Manish Bhatt, founder and director, Scarecrow Communications will chair the Jury for the Brand Activation vertical. Ashish Chakravarty, national creative director, Contract Advertising, will chair the Radio/Radio Craft Jury.

Before joining Publicis, Pawar was the chief creative officer at JWT. Prior to that, he spent four years as the chief creative officer of the DDB Mudra Group. Earlier, he was the creative director at Ogilvy, New York and Group creative director at BBDO, Chicago.

Bhatt has more than 15 years of industry experience and has been associated with agencies like Contract, Ogilvy & Mather (Delhi, Mumbai and Malaysia), Ambience Publicis, and McCann Erickson.

Chakravarty brings with him over two decades of experience in the advertising industry.

The Jury Chairs for the remaining Creative Abby verticals will be announced shortly.

Presented by the Advertising Club and the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), the Goafest Abbys 2016 will be held in Goa from April 7-9, at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim, North Goa.