Nick Law, Creative Chairperson at Accenture Song, and Wesley ter Haar, Co-founder of Media.Monks, have joined The ABBY One Show Awards 2023 as Jury Chairs for the Integrated Category and the Digital Category, respectively.

Nick is one of the world’s most progressive and adaptable creative leaders, believing that design is a fundamental creative discipline that shapes how we interact with the world – and how we transform it for the better.

His design, advertising, and digital media career has spanned 30 years and four continents, working with the best and brightest in a variety of creative fields. He was named to the Creativity 50, a list of the world’s most important creative people, twice.

Nick leads with an emphasis on service and experience design, establishing the practice’s direction and nurturing its culture with the goal of driving development through relevance for their clients. He is also renowned for assisting in the application of creative thinking and craft to emerging technologies.

Wesley founded Media Monks, a digital-first marketing and advertising services firm that integrates content, data, digital media, and technology services into a single worldwide team. Wesley is presently on the board of directors of SoDA: The Digital Society, The One Club, and S4Capital. Wesley has tried to wage war on mediocre digital production for over 20 years, growing Media.Monks from a humble production company to an end-to-end creative and production partner through aggressive expansion and numerous mergers.

Media.Monks works across time zones and around the globe to achieve unparalleled creative quality with a team of over 9,000 people spread across 57 talent centers in 33 countries.

Rana Barua, Group CEO, Havas Group India & Chairman, The ABBYs Award Governing Council, and Ajay Kakar, Managing Committee Member, The Advertising Club & Co-chair, The ABBYs Award Governing Council said, “The Abby One Show 2023 promises to be a world-standard award show, for South Asia. The One Show partnership brings the world’s best practices and processes to the Awards. However, we do believe that an award show is as good as the Jury that judges the work. This year we have the world’s best creative minds as the Jury Chair for each of our categories. Nick and Wesley have chosen to bring their perspective and experience to our awards. And soon you will hear the names of the other legends, too. Now the ball is in the court of our industry, to win recognition for the best work in South Asia, with this envious and illustrious Jurors who will gauge the work in the context of the world’s best.”

Prior to joining Accenture, Nick was VP, Marcom Integration at Apple, where he was in charge of the worldwide design and marketing team. His responsibilities included connecting traditional narrative advertising to social and performance marketing, as well as a suite of owned and partner digital platforms. During his tenure in Cupertino, Apple received numerous ‘Brand of the Year’ honors. One of the vendors he directed, Media Arts Lab, received numerous creative awards, including “Agency of the Year.”

The Abby Awards will be presented during Goafest 2023 on the May 24, 25, and 26.