Jury
We have invited Bulgarian and International men of experience, high professional qualities and competence to join the honorable jury and to be the guarantee of the correctness and professionalism of the International Media Awards for Web. We provide for the members of our jury special software for voting that will ease their work and make it transparent and trustworthy. KPMG, one of the world leading providers of audit, will supervise the evaluations of the jury and will audit their appraisal.
Please, visit us regularly to know who will evaluate the participants at the International Media Awards for Web Albena and to whom you will have the pleasure to say "Thank you!" for the award in Albena!
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Artemy Lebedev (Russia)
Chairman of the Jury
Студия Артемия Лебедева
Artemy Lebedev was born in Moscow at the Grauerman maternity hospital on February 13, 1975 (birth height: 50 cm; birth weight: 3,500 g). Graduated form the Moscow high school № 57 (humanitarian bias). On graduation, entered Moscow Lomonosov University's School of Journalism.
In summer 1992, together with a partner established a studio and worked there until the end of the year. In January 1993, he established his own studio dubbed Artografika. He took part in designing books and magazines. Since 1995, he has been working for Internet founding the Web Design studio. Later in 1998, it was renamed as the Art. Lebedev Studio. Realized over 500 projects including illustrations, insignia, logos, brands, corporate identities, websites, books, magazines, posters, etc. He is in the early stages of his creative career.
Art. Lebedev Studio’s areas of involvement: product design, graphic design, web–site design, interface design, editing, education and advertising. Today, there are over 150 employees in his company. Now, he is the studio’s art director.
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Ralph Andreas Linhof (Germany)
Web Festival Director
He started his career at 1983 in Paris as Project Manager at „Allianz France S.A.”, as Co–ordination of an Int. Multimedia Production in Munich and Bordeaux
1991–92: Agency GREY: Account Supervisor Marketing for Warner Bros. Film.
1993–95: Co–founder and Promotion Manager of the agency „Marketeam Entertainment” in Hamburg (Clients: Warner Bros., Buena Vista Int., UIP, etc..)
1995–96: Marketing Associate of Lord Lloyd Webbers „Really Useful Group” in Wiesbaden and London.
1996–97: „linhof&friends”, Marketing Consultancy / Agency network in Frankfurt and London (Rene Lezard, Ballet/ Opera Frankfurt, Braun, Sony Classical, etc..).
1998–2001: Director Sales, Marketing & Strategic Planning + shareholder of the freecard company „Edgar Medien AG” in Hamburg.
Founder and Co–ordinator of the „International Freecard Alliance” (IFA).
Mentor of the first „International Freecard Award” (Hamburg, 2001)
Ambient Media expert, lectures on „non classical media and young target groups”, Co–initiator of the „Ambient Media Association Germany”.
Since 2002: Media and Marketing Consultant, Salestrainer and Brandconsultant
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Orlin Ivanov Kouzov (Bulgaria)
Mr. Orlin Kouzov has worked for the Open Society Foundation–Sofia for 10 years and has headed the National Research Network at the Ministry of Education and Science for two years. He has worked on several European Commission and G7 projects (the Global Inventory Project Initiative for instance), the Open Society Institute New York (Sorosnet Project), the United Nations Development Programme, the Institute for Sustainable Communities (in partnership with USAID’s DemNet II supported organizations), the NATO Science Programme. Member of the Internet Society since April 1993. Founder and ex-chairperson of the Internet BG Foundation. He has been in the Board of Directors of the BIT PLC (currently the BITEX.COM company), member of the Managing Committee of the Radio Frequency Spectrum Association, has managed projects of the Rila Solutions company. Member of the Political Council of the Pan–European Research Consortium G É ANT and the European network analyses group ENPG. He represents Bulgaria in the General assembly of the association of research networks in Central and Eastern European countries CEENet.
Among the most interesting projects which he has headed is the creation of a web–based multimedia portal for traditional Bulgarian folklore together with the Institute of Art Studies in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the creation of a portal for the Bulgarian secondary schools (together with Virtual Education Foundation), as well as a portal for the Bulgarian media (together with Bulgarian Media Coalition, the Media Development Centre and the Pro-Media Programme). He works actively in the field of implementing new information technologies in the work of the Third Sector and, together with the Resource Centre Foundation, developed a site for virtual services offered to non–governmental organizations, as well as in programmes in the field of social adaptation of the military.
As a pinnacle in his professional career he considers the invitation by the UN Secretary General to represent Eastern Europe in a Special High–level Panel at the New York Summit in April 2000 for overcoming the digital divide in ICT implementation in the developing countries, where the UN strategy in the field was marked.
International expert in digital divide issues, as well as in research infrastructure networks.
As of 2002 he has headed the ICT Development Agency at the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Agency is the major executive body of the governmental policy in the field of information technologies and communications and is currently implementing large–scale infrastructure initiatives within the National i–Bulgaria Programme.
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Philip Smirnov (Russia)
Philip Smirnov was born somewhere in Moscow on February 7, 1977. Started to work as a freelance designer about 10 years ago.
Switched to design using computer, later in 1996, being a student. While being educated in Moscow Mining Univercity was a proud memeber of HRG Art Group.
Starting from 1998 builded up a number of successful web–projects of all sizes.
Designer and technical director of www.gazeta.ru since 1999.
In 2005 has established his own design agency.
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Plamen Voushev (Bulgaria)
Education
1988–1993 School of Computer Technologies, Pravetz
1994–1999 Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science at Technical University Sofia, Sofia
1999 Specialized training in Video Journalism: Training of Trainers, New York, USA
Professional Experience
1997 Co–founder and CEO of VERAX Ltd.
VERAX is a software development and design company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. VERAX's Software department has extensive experience in IT project management and software development and has completed successfully several 2+ years (150+ person months) projects. For the past eight years, VERAX has established itself as a reliable technology partner and has worked with both European and US companies in a wide spectrum of fields. Among VERAX partners and clients are leading companies from the European news industry and the US educational sector.
VERAX's Graphical Design & Animation department has extensive experience in both Graphical/User Interface design and content creation, and has produced 300+ minutes of animation for TV, Web and animation-rich interactive CD-ROM titles.
In the beginning of 2003 VERAX launched JOBS.BG, as of now a leading online recruitment service in Bulgaria.
VERAX has R&D activities in the field of mobile technologies, workflow and content management, social networks.
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Carl Rasquin (Belgium)
Education
Katholic University Leuven — Master in Information Technology
Presented several project management courses at the academic institutions: Development Centre, Sierksma consulting, Hay management, and Insead France.
Internet Business Career Highlights
Founder of ACESS BVBA (Applied Computer Education and Software Services) since 1987. Primary activity used to be the sales of IBM–clone PC's, selling of tailor-made software and software training. For the last decade the activities of the company have completely taken the direction of IT consultancy, project management and web based applications in general.
Workting with ICYGEN as a consultant by helping the development of their Belgian operations.
Working with a Romanian multimedia company developing online tutorials for various clients.
Founding member of the BSLUA — Belgian (Nortel) SL User Association grouping all belgian users of Nortel SL–switches.
Speaker throughout the Eureko group on various items like Y2K, Direct Marketing, Dataware house, etc.
Other Work Experience
Ziegler — Brucargo (Zaventem); Dunn & Hargitt Research — Brussels; Ardico — Burroughs (Arab Digital Computers) — Riyadh, Saudi–Arabia; Paxus Systems Ltd, Brussels; CB Direct, Belgium; ActelDirect, Belgium; Hulp Der Patroons (social secretariat), Belgium; Belgium National Social Security Office.
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Jeni Evgenieva Georgieva (Bulgaria)
Jeni Evgenieva Georgieva was born on 21st of August 1982 in Sliven. She graduated at the English language school at Sliven in 2001.
After it, she started studying Economics at the New Bulgarian University showing interests in advertising and PR.
In the late summer of 2004 she was invited to join the team of Free Cards advertising media. Attracted by the non–classical medias and the big world of advertising, in the end of 2004 she started a rubric called Fame Zone People in the site of Fame Cards as its editor.
