Jury

With more than 25 years of experience in the marketing and advertising industry, Karyn has spent her career in New York and Chicago overseeing growth agendas for clients such as Mondelēz, Royal Caribbean, The US Army, Kimberly-Clark, State Farm, Marriott, Google, and YouTube. Most recently, she served as CEO of FCB New York. A boomerang, earlier in her career, she worked as a global business director at JWT. She also held previous roles with Leo Burnett, DDB and Co:Collective. In her role as President of Wunderman Thompson, Minneapolis and Chicago, Karyn leads a world-class team of storytellers, creative technologists, experience designers, and data scientists across clients such as UnitedHealth Group, Best Buy, Sherwin-Williams, NewYork-Presbyterian, Principal Global Investors, Johnson Outdoors and Chevron.​ Karyn is an inclusion and mental health advocate and a champion of Conscious Capitalism. She was named a “Woman to Watch” by Ad Age in 2017. Karyn's pride and joy is her daughter, Lauren Hope, who attends Syracuse University and is studying photography and forensics.