Don't chicken out of the Loeries

Barry Munchick, co-owner Velocity Films, one of the country's leading producers

Angel Jones, partner and executive creative director at MorrisJones, who is known for wearing angel wings at industry functions

Fran Luckin, executive CD at Ogilvy Johannesburg, works on KFC!

Festus Masekwameng, partner and executive CD at MotherRussia Communications, a big fish in the SA talent pool

Francois de Villiers, executive CD Draftfcb CT, known for bigging up Klipdrift

Gareth Lessing, executive CD DDB South Africa, well known to be a fan of the other bird (racing pigeons)

Ahmed Tilly, executive CD BlackRiver FC, can be frequently spotted in his natural habitat (at a Nando's outlet in Jozi)

Andrew Human, MD Loeries Company, managed to achieve the impossible and successfully run the Loerie awards

Alistair King, group chief creative at King James

Pepe Marais, executive CD and senior partner at Joe Public, particularly famous for donning winkle pickers. He is now a Pescatarian teetotaller and no longer the party animal of a bygone era

Paul Warner, founder and chief creative officer at Metropolitan Republic, infamous in the South African ad industry (and not just for his size)

Qingqile "WingWing" Mdlulwa, CD at Network BBDO, regarded as one of the most influential people in advertising