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Milka Pogliani, Chairman and Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup Italy, Creative Advisor, McCann New Europe

Milka started her career by joining a group of directors with RAI (Italian State Television) as a screen-writer. After a few years she accepted a job offer as a copywriter in advertising. She reaped her experience by working for international networks, such as JWT and Benton & Bowles. In 1979, she started to work with McCann Erickson as a senior copywriter, then as Executive Creative Director and then in her current role.
She is a member of McCann Worldgroup Management Board. She has taken part on the Juries of the most important international advertising festivals (Cannes, Clio, Cresta, Andy Awards, Eurobest, New York Festivals and Golden Drum).
As a Creative Director she has won many international awards including the Grand Prix, gold, silver and bronze Lions at Cannes Festival and other awards including the New York Festivals, Cresta International, London International Advertising Awards, Art Directors Club of New York, Art Directors Club of Europe, Eurobest (London), besides prestigious Italian creative awards.
From 1999 to 2002 Milka was Chairman of the Art Directors Club of Italy and until last year Chairman European Creative Council EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

Adrian Botan, Regional Creative Officer for CEE McCann Erickson, Partner and Executive CD, McCann Erickson, Romania

Adrian studied Architecture & Design in Bucharest in the early 90’s, trying to find a job that is artistic but also has rational side to it. Later, he found out advertising offers the perfect match and something more: a lot of fun. So it happened that he started the professional career in 1995 as a designer in Romanian design shop. In 1997 was working for DMB&B (later to become D’Arcy) as an art-director where was half of the team that won the first ever-international awards for Romania in Golden Drum
In 1998, Adrian has joined McCann Erickson, and then never left. In the eleven years as a creative director, his team won over 150 awards for creativity and effectiveness, while McCann was six times the Agency of the Year in three national and regional competitions including twice the Golden Drum. Also, McCann Romania had made it in the Gunn Report’s “Top 50” of the best creative agencies in the world.
Adrian is Regional Creative Director for Central East Europe at McCann Erickson, Partner and Executive Creative Director of McCann Erickson Bucharest, founder member and President of Romanian Art Directors Club.