Meet the Jury
Carlo Bach
Art Director - illycaffè
Carlo Bach was born in Colonia in 1967. He is an artist, with numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.
Since 1999 he collaborates on the artistic projects of illycaffè – a company which has chosen creativity as a language through which it expresses its own values and philosophy – and became Art Director in 2005. He develops collaborations with the most renowned contemporary artists as well as with emerging talents, working on experimental art projects to then translate such experiences into the realization of the illy® Art Collection, the signature espresso cups that are now a cult.
He is also responsible for the projects that the company develops in the fields of communication and design, among which the illy® Gallery – the temporary space imagined describing illy®’s world of passions to the public – and the Coffee Pavillion created for the Milan Expo in 2015. He lives in Udine, Italy.
Niovi Kallergi
Vice President & CMO – KAFEA TERRA
Niovi Kallergi has been dedicated to KAFEA TERRA since 1989 with boundless passion for creation and a commitment to excellence, actively contributing to the development of coffee culture in Greece.
Evangelos Touras
Chief Marketing Officer-illycaffè
Evangelos Touras is Global Chief Marketing Officer of illycaffè. With an MBA in finance, he spent most of his career at Procter & Gamble, where he played a key role in developing brand and category strategies
Erato Chatzisavva
Rector of Athens School of Fine Arts
She was born in Nicosia in 1966. She studied with an IKY scholarship at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA).
She completed her studies in the Postgraduate Program of ASFA “Digital Forms of Art”.
