D&AD President
Paul Brazier
AMV.BBDO
Paul has spent the last 16 years at AMV after stints at WCRS and Cogents. During that time he’s won numerous awards including D&AD pencils, One Shows and Cannes Gold Lions. He was made Executive Creative Director in 2005.

That’s the top line, but if you want to know a little more, grab a cup of tea and make yourself comfortable.

Paul was born in Tipton and hated school. The only things he was good at were football and art. But to everyone’s amazement, at the age of 16 he suddenly took an interest in further education. (Probably because the only alternative was an apprenticeship at the local steel works.) Nevertheless, Paul eventually obtained a BA in Graphic Design at Wolverhampton. He still follows the Wolves and feels guilty about his recently acquired season ticket at Arsenal.

He’s married to Diane, a copywriter at AMV. They have two children: Eva who ‘s five and a half and Jude who’s two and a half and was born the very same day that AMV gave Paul the big job. After many sleepless nights with Jude and the job, both seem to have settled down nicely.

Simon Learman
McCann Erickson
After graduating with a 1st Class Honours degree from St Martin’s School of Art, Simon went on to spend the next 16 years at Saatchi & Saatchi (he still has the bruises to prove it), Ogilvy and (BMP) DDB.

Of all the top industry awards he has won, Simon holds his D&AD pencils most dear.

He was appointed Joint Executive Creative Director of McCann in January 2006, and immediately implemented a cunning plan that placed creative excellence at the heart of the agency. As a result, McCann London is enjoying its best ever year for awards. (They have even won a D&AD pencil!)

Simon now features in Campaign's ‘Top 10 Creative Directors’ list, and is a regular member of award juries. He is also a respected contributor in the media, and frequently lectures and runs workshops for students. His only downside is his unwavering support for Leeds United.

Jeremy Leslie
Jeremy Leslie is Executive Creative Director at the John Brown Group, where he has worked for eight years. The company has grown to become the UK’s leading customer publishing agency and recently made its first appearance in Designs Week’s top 50 creative agencies list. Previously he ran his own studio working for clients including Blitz magazine and The Guardian and spent three years as group art director at Time Out.

He has won many awards, including most recently a D&AD Yellow Pencil for his work on M-real magazine and a Design Week award for Best Editorial Design for the children’s encyclopedia Pick Me Up.

Leslie is a passionate advocate of editorial design, regularly contributing to the creative press and design conferences on the subject. He is one of the three founders of the bi-annual independent magazine exhibition/conference Colophon, which launched earlier this year in Luxembourg, and has sat on many awards juries including three times for D&AD.

He has written four books, two of which were about magazine design: ‘Issues’ (2000) and ‘magCulture’ (2003), both published internationally. His blog about magazine design can be read at www.magCulture.com.

As well as magazines, Leslie enjoys his family, his football and the 4342 items on his iPod.

Steve Mykolyn
TAXI
Bio to follow

Greg Quinton
The Partners
Greg is the overall creative director at The Partners and over the past two decades he has contributed significantly to our reputation for creative excellence, winning over 100 awards including 3 D&AD yellow pencils, Gold and Silver NYADC awards, Grand Prix at both the DBA Design Effectiveness and New York Festival awards. He is also a frequent judge for many leading creative competitions.

His recent clients include Saks Fifth Avenue and Random House in New York, The Connaught, the National Gallery and Jaguar in the UK. Previously at Interbrand Newell & Sorrell, he worked with clients such as WHSmith, Boots and the Royal Academy. Greg is passionate about creative branding but it was only after his fourth child, Phoebe, was born that he achieved his ambition of branding his own kids by their initials – S.T.O.P!

D&AD Deputy President
Sanky
AllofUs
Sanky is a founding partner of interactive agency AllofUs. After studying information design at Nottingham, Sanky joined Digit at its inception as an art director. He worked on projects for Nike, Motorola, Stella McCartney and The Design Museum amongst others.

AllofUs, founded in 2002, focuses on how technology can be used alongside more traditional practices such as interior design, architecture, exhihition design and identity as well as working on internet based projects and application design. They currently work with BBC, Coco-de-mer, Land Securities, Natural History Museum, NHS, Nokia, Tate Britian and Sky.

Sanky runs the team of visual designers in his role as art director. He has spoken at Design Indaba, IDN conferences in Sydney and Singapore, Flash Forward, The Typographic Circle and Design Yatra in Goa.

He has also judged interactive categories for D&AD, Design Week, Canadian Art Directors Club, Creative Review as well as teaching at the London College of Communication, Hyper Island in Sweden and Space Invaders in Copenhagen.

Jane Scherbaum
V&A Museum
Jane Scherbaum joined the V&A in 2004 and was recently appointed Head of Design. Her team is responsible for creating and sourcing the best and most appropriate design solutions for exhibitions and displays; and for creating a stylish and coherent look and feel to the Museum’s galleries and public areas.

She studied French & Art History at Manchester University (1986-1990) and completed a post-graduate Design and Publishing course at LCP in 1992. She was Design Manager at Tate from 1996 until 2004, where she worked on the development of the Tate brand and was responsible for implementing the new identity at Tate Britain and Tate Modern in 2000.She has also participated in conferences, delivered lectures and has been a member of D&AD since 2002.

Jim Sutherland
Hat-trick Design
Jim graduated from Norwich School of Art in 1988. He worked at The Partners for 6 years before spending 7 years at HGV, where he became a Creative Director. He co-founded Hat-trick design in 2001 with Gareth Howat and David Kimpton. Hat-trick work for a wide range of clients including the Natural History Museum, Land Securities, House of Illustration, National Museums Scotland and Royal Mail.


He's a passionate believer in ideas and engaging communication, and has had about 50 things in the Book over the years. He's been a D&AD judge on 5 occasions as well as other national competitions. He's taught and lectured at a number of colleges.

Chairman
Anthony Simonds-Gooding
Anthony Simonds-Gooding’s career has spanned the fields of business, advertising and media. He started in marketing with Unilever. Having learned his trade there, he was appointed Whitbread’s Marketing Director and then progressed to Group Managing Director. Under his management the famous “Heineken Refreshes the Parts”, Stella Artois “Reassuringly Expensive” and R.White’s “The Secret Lemonade Drinker” campaigns were born. He also signed the first UK trading agreements with Pizza Hut and TGI Friday.

In 1985, he moved to Saatchi & Saatchi, working with the company's founders as Executive Chairman of all communication companies worldwide. In 1988 he was invited to set up British Satellite Broadcasting, which he ran for four years until its merger with Rupert Murdoch’s Sky.

Since 1992, he has pursued a non-executive director career with a wide variety of companies, over a dozen, sometimes as Director, sometimes as Chairman.

His pro-bono charity work has been as diverse as setting up The Macmillan Nurse Appeal, a trustee of the ICA and mentoring the Governor of HMP Brixton.

He has chaired D&AD since 1993.

Treasurer
Bruce Gray
Bruce Gray is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and currently a member of its national governing Council. He has twice been president of the Croydon & District Society of Chartered Accountants. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Over many years he has lectured on accounting, auditing and taxation topics for the ICAEW and other bodies.

Apart from three and a half years with a public company, he has spent the whole of his professional life in public practice. Over the last sixteen years, Mr. Gray has operated as a sole practioner providing general financial and taxation services to a wide range of clients from large private companies to partnerships, sole traders and individuals.

Mr. Gray recently retired after twenty two years as a Trustee and Treasurer of Breast Cancer Care, a substantial national charity which provides practical and emotional support to women who have, or fear they may have, breast cancer and also to their family and friends. He was also a trustee of The Industrial Careers Foundation, a charity which promotes an understanding of industry and management to schools – in particular sixth formers, for sixteen years. In addition, he was a governer of St. Teresa’s School at Effingham for two years with particular responsibility for financial matters.

His interests include golf, theatre, food, travel and wine. He is married to Sue and they have four children, all of whom are happily gainfully employed.