Stefan Schmidt - President of TV, Press, Outdoor and Radio Jury 2009

07. April 2009

We are happy to announce that the president of TV, Press, Outdoor and Radio Jury 2009 will be Stefan Schmidt, Chief Creative Officer at TBWA\ Group Germany.

Stefan started out as a Copywriter at Publicis in 1987. He rose to fame at Ogilvy & Mather in the early 90’s, where he created campaigns for Deutsche Bahn, Pro Kennex Tennis Equipment and American Express. He left O&M in 1994 to join Springer & Jacoby working on Spiegel and Mercedes Benz. In April 1999 he was one of the founding members of S&J International in London.

Stefan has won hundreds of international creative awards for Mercedes Benz, Lufthansa, Spiegel, Playstation, Adidas and Kawasaki including Cannes, Clio, Euro ADC, Eurobest and New York Festival.

Since April 2002 Stefan is Co-Chief Creative Officer and member of the German Management Board of TBWA\. While at the same time he’s still writing ads for the clients handled in the Berlin office – adidas, Apple, Playstation, Absolut Vodka and Masterfoods.

Stefan is a member of the German Art Directors Club and the British D&AD.