Kollegian Among Top Creative Minds Hand-Picked for Board of Judges
SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2012 — Summit International Awards (SIA), a globally recognized marketing communications organization, has selectedJacob Tyler’s CEO Les Kollegian to be an international judge for their 2012 Summit Creative Award (SCA). Together with several of the most qualified minds in the creative industry, Kollegian will be tasked with scrutinizing hundreds of creative submissions and selecting amongst the world’s elite creative agencies and personnel.
Since 1994, SIA has organized the international competition as a way to offer small to medium-sized agencies the unique opportunity to showcase their talents alongside similarly positioned companies. The SCA, as one of the three categories lauded by SIA, recognizes creative excellence in advertising and marketing companies, as well as individuals, with billing under $30 million.
“It’s an enormous honor to be asked to judge such a prestigious award,” said Kollegian. “Every one of the SIA competitions bring out great design from amazing global companies. I’m excited to not only be a part of it but to be able to critique my peers’ amazing work.”
Companies and individuals from more than 50 countries and across five continents have participated in this prestigious 18-year competition. SIA, whose aim is to praise the creative work of “less-than-huge” agencies, judges submissions on strength of concept, quality of execution and ability to persuade.
“Les Kollegian is an ideal candidate for an SIA judge because of his passion for creative and his name throughout the industry,” said Jocelyn Luciano, Executive Director of SIA. “As a top-tier marketing professional, his know-how and love for his work are key factors we look for in our judges. Everyone at SIA is very excited to have Les on-board.”
The SIA is the oldest and most prestigious organization conducting an advertising award exclusively for firms with limited billings. SIA administers three distinguished advertising and marketing award competitions throughout the year with the goal of raising the awareness of companies and individuals who have extraordinary creative and marketing talent.
The SIA organization conducts three competitions annually: The Summit Creative Award (SCA), The Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award (MEA) and The Summit Emerging Media Award (EMA).
Kollegian and the entire panel will be judging the Summit Creative Award submissions from March 31- April 3, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
For more information about Les Kollegian’s participation as a judge for SIA, please call 619.994.7417 or email attomas.urtasun@focuscominc.com.
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About Jacob Tyler:
Jacob Tyler is a full-service brand communications agency that creates brands with meaningful and significant value. It does so through its expertise in brand strategy, identity and implementation, which includes web design and development, product design, printed collateral, online marketing, social media, and reputation management. It has been honored by Inc. 5000 as one of America’s fastest growing companies in 2010, was named by the San Diego Business Journal as one of the city’s fastest growing companies, five years in row, and has been the recipient of more than fifty national design and marketing awards. Clients served include Nuvasive Inc, Chicago’s Hotel 71, Four Seasons Hotels, Terranea Resort, AT&T, Rhino Vehicle Protection, Milwaukee Motorcycle Clothing and Upper Deck.
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