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Live & Virtual Event Awards Judging Committee

Chair:

Chris Hook, Global & CEO Communications
Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California, United States


Chris Hook is a marketing visionary and master craftsman with a track record of helping major technology brands and leaders assert their place at their industry’s center of gravity, while capturing market share and expanding market valuations. He currently leads global communications and marketing at Cadence Design Systems, one of world’s foremost AI technology companies.

Hook spent most of the past 20 years leading major global marketing and communications functions in Toronto, Munich, London, Austin, and Sunnyvale, and his epic portfolio of events includes engagements in places like Iceland, the London Underground, a medina in Tunisia, a beach in Ibiza and even the flight deck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier. He believes that successful event plans begin with a sense of how you want your audience to feel, which he believes is determined at the confluence of immersive, medium-centric messaging, the ‘looking-glass self’ principle (celebrating your guests), and experiential ‘shock and awe’ execution.

Hook has served as Judging Chair for The American Business Awards on five occasions and has won over 100 international communications, event and marketing awards including a Grand Stevie, 5 Gold Stevies, PR News Corporate Communications Practitioner of the Year, and PR Week Technology Campaign of the Year. On being invited to Chair these awards, Hook tells us: “The Stevie Awards recognize the pioneers, mutineers, rebels, and underdogs that toil every day to advance and refine the craft of business in America and around the world. I’m humbled to be part of the Stevie Awards judging team and community!”

 

 

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