Jure Apih
Honorary President of Golden Drum, Founding member and CEO of ICAC – Intercontinental Advertising Cup
Jure Apih, b. 1941, first gained recognition in the early 70's as Creative Director of Studio Marketing Delo, the first real ad agency in the former Yugoslavia. Later he worked as editor in chief of Telex, a progressive weekly news magazine. After political intervention he was forced to resign, and in the early 80's he rebuild his career with the very first specialist marketing magazine in Yugoslavia, the Media Marketing (later renamed Marketing Magazin). After the introduction of democracy and the independence of Slovenia in early 90's he became a member of the Board of the nation's largest Newspaper and Publishing House Delo, since June 2001 to August 2004, when he retired, he was the Chairman of the Board.
He was involved in advertising and marketing trade-organizations from the 70's, and in 1994 he initiated the Golden Drum, the advertising festival of the New Europe, of which he is still Honorary President. Founding member and CEO of ICAC – Intercontinental Advertising Cup from the year 2007.
