Jury

Susan Young is a Founding Partner and Creative Director of Chemistry, an integrated indie agency which recently celebrated ten years of creating award-winning work for some of New Zealand's best-loved brands. Beginning as a writer, her career has spanned agencies in South Africa, London and New Zealand, with clients as diverse as British Gas, Sony, L’Oreal, ANZ Bank and Jaguar Land Rover NZ. Her work has been recognised with gold at some of the biggest international festivals, including Cannes, ECHOs, Aerial, Eurobest, AdFest and Caples, and she has won numerous gold awards locally. She’s passionate about championing female leadership and supporting the next generation of advertising creatives, and has lectured in Advertising Creativity at AUT University for many years. Her mantra is ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Fail harder’ which keeps her on her toes.