Meet the Jurors

Our panel of seven leading interactive media professionals spent ten weeks thoroughly reviewing this year’s entries.

Click on any juror name or picture to read a biography and view a video clip.

Ingrid Bernstein
JWT New York
New York, NY

Nikolai Cornell
Obscura Digital
San Francisco, CA

Brooke Nanberg
Jayne Agency
Chicago, IL

Rachel Pasqua
iCrossing
New York, NY

Mathew Ranauro
Publicis & Hal Riney
San Francisco, CA

Hilary Read
EWI Worldwide
Los Angeles, CA

Glen Sheehan
T3
Austin, TX

Question:

Overall, thinking about the entries, what would you say made a project successful?

Rachel Pasqua
iCrossing
New York, NY

Bio
Rachel Pasqua is director of mobile strategy at New York-based iCrossing. As a digital strategist, she’s interested in ambient media—the rapidly evolving interactive ecosystem that exists beyond the traditional desktop. A firm believer in platform agnostic brand strategy, Pasqua’s a vocal proponent of using emerging media like mobile Web, Near Field Communications, social media, GPS and image recognition to build strong relationships between brands and their consumers. She has worked in the interactive industry since 1997 as an interactive writer, producer and strategist, and her background beyond the Web and mobile includes seven years spent in film production as a screenwriter, producer and development executive. A frequent speaker at industry events, Pasqua’s insights on mobile, social and ambient marketing are frequently quoted in the media.