Panel of Judges 

The panel of distinguished judges are comprised of business leaders and marketing experts from business and academia as well as leaders from AMA chapters in other cities. Each year, the AMY Awards committee invites between five and seven judges to serve on the panel. 

To avoid a conflict of interest, judges, their companies and families members are not allowed to compete in the awards. Members of the AMA Atlanta Board and members of the AMY Awards committee are also not allowed to serve on the panel.  

The 2008 panel of judges will be announced in January 2008.    


Judging Process 

The entries are first processed by a team of volunteers who review each entry form and black-out all reference to the agency responsible for the program that is being submitted. A binder containing all of the entries is then collated for each judge on the panel. The panel of judges meets at an Atlanta-based hotel over a weekend in February to evaluate all entries. They are split into two teams with each team evaluating and scoring entries from their respective designated award categories. Entries in each category are carefully reviewed and scored according to the evaluation criteria by each of the judges on the team.

For each award category, each team of judges discuss their respective top three scoring entries within their team to determine the finalists and ultimately select the recipient of the AMY for that award category. The entries are scored according to the following criteria:

• How well did the program deliver measurable business results?
• Did the program successfully execute marketing best practices?
• Was the program based on sound business and marketing strategy?
  
  
  

2008 Panel of Judges

This year’s distinguished AMY Awards judges are:

Greg Fulton
Editorial director of Atlanta Business Magazine.

Peter Davis
President and chairman of Vesdia Corporation

Francis M. Ulgado, Ph.D.
Associate professor and CIBER Facility director, Georgia Institute of Technology

Karen A. Robinson
President and CEO of Prime Point Media

Karl Hellman
Founder and president of Resultrek

John Gerstner
ABC, president of Communitelligence, Inc.

Jan Lewin
Managing director of MS&L/Atlanta (ret.)

Ron Coleman
Vice president and general manager of Empire Distributors (ret.)

Guy Powell
Principal and senior consultant of DemandROMI

Virginia A. Bradley
Publisher and founder of Global EXEC Woman magazine

2007 Panel of Judges

Virginia Bradley
Publisher, Atlanta Woman Magazine
Founder, GlobalExec Woman

Bob Cohn
Co-founder, Cohn & Wolfe
Partner and Chairman, Cohn, Overstreet & Parrish
Atlanta, GA

Tom Klein
Managing Director, Digital Scientists
Founder, CMO Partners

I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr.
President, Imlay Investments

Guy Powell
Principal and Senior Consultant, Demand ROMI

Norman Wolfe (Retired)
President and CEO, Cohn & Wolfe

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