Mark Gross, Radio

Group creative director, DDB, Chicago

Though he’s an art director by training, Mark Gross, 36, says he’s well prepared to judge the traditionally copywriter-heavy radio category at Cannes this year. “I always say, ‘If you’re not a good writer as an art director, you’re just a graphic designer,'” Gross says. “I always consider myself both.” Though the newbie Cannes juror is aware there’s a lot of work ahead of him, Gross hopes a plan to allow judges to listen to the entries on portable audio players will afford him some time to appreciate the Cote d’Azur.

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