The Stevie Awards, one of the world’s premier business awards, has named Ana Pista, the Filipino founder and chief executive of Ardent Communications as one of its distinguished panel of judges for the corporate communications/PR, publications, events and video Asia Pacific Awards.
The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are an international business awards competition that is open to all organizations in the 29 markets of the Asia-Pacific region. The focus of the awards is on recognizing innovation in all its forms.
Pista started ArdentComm in 1997 as a PR agency specializing in the then-booming technology sector. Over the years, Pista has helped the agency to become one of the Philippines’ leading integrated marketing communications agencies.
ArdentComm offers strategic communications consultancy, government and community relations, digital PR, media and influencer relations and digital marketing. It counts as clients some of the biggest brands in the world such as Airbnb, Toyota, Disney, Chevron and Alibaba Cloud.
Pista was also the first Filipino to be elected director of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management, the leading international body for the profession of public relations and communications.
Pista will join other top PR agency heads, academics from renowned universities and top executives in the country as members of the panel of judges. Along with these juries are professional and prominent personalities from Singapore, Texas, Australia and other countries.