Tara Ford
Chief Creative Officer, Droga5 UKI
Tara Ford is the freshly minted Chief Creative Officer of Droga5 UKI having just moved from Droga5 ANZ (formerly The Monkeys) and Accenture Song APAC.
Tara’s work has been consistently recognised throughout her career at the highest level of every major international award show. Recent wins include back to back Grand Prix wins at Cannes with ‘The First Digital Nation’ for the Tuvaluan Government and ‘Play It Safe’ for The Sydney Opera House picking up the prestigious Dan Weiden Titanium Grand Prix and the Film Grand Prix respectively.
Tara has been named ‘AWARD Creative Leader of the Year 2023/24’, ‘Creative Leader of the Year 2023’ by Campaign Asia. Recognised as ‘Creative Captain 2022’ in the Women Leading Change Awards by Campaign Asia Pacific. ‘Global Creative Leader of the Year 2021’ by Creativepool. And in 2020 Campaign Asia named her ‘Creative Person of the Year’.
Chaka Sobhani
President and Global Chief Creative Officer, DDB Worldwide
Chaka Sobhani is President and Global Chief Creative Officer of DDB Worldwide. Before joining the ad industry, Chaka spent over a decade as an award winning film-maker and in television.
She set up ITV’s first in-house creative agency, during which time the network regained the no.1 position in the UK, created its most successful global formats and content in shows like the X Factor and Downton Abbey, and won the prestigious Channel of the Year for the first time as well as numerous BAFTA’s, Golden Globes and the prestigious Rose D’Or.
Chaka sits on the External Affairs Committee for the Design Museum as well as on the boards of D&AD, The One Club, the British Arrows, Creative Circle and Snapchat Global Creative Council and WARC Advisory Board.
