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Guan graduated from Art Center in Pasadena during a worldwide recession.
Luckily, he found work after winning the Best of Show in LA Creative
Club Student Competition. Before returning to Singapore, he took
a few months off teaching in Russia Far East, Vladivostok.
In 1998, his work formed part of the winning portfolio when AdAge
named Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore “International Agency
of the Year”. Under his leadership, Campaign Brief Asia ranked
Leo Burnett fifth hottest agencies in the region. And ranked him
as one of the region’s top ten creatives for the past 4 years
and 7th in The Work 2004. Guan joined JWT in 2005 and was elected
to the Worldwide Creative Council.
His awards include Gold Lions in Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clio,
AdFest, Award and Spikes. In fact, 3 campaigns are included in Gunn
Report‘s top 10. Guan has judged for D&AD, One Show, AdFest,
Spikes & Award in Sydney and Cannes in 2007.
This year, under Guan’s leadership, JWT Manila and Jakarta
created history by bringing home Philippines’s first Gold
Cannes Lion and Indonesia’s first Cannes Lion He is only the
second Asian to chair the Clio Awards for print, poster, innovative
media and integrated campaigns. And was appointed as Chief of Jury
for the inaugural Asia Outdoor Advertising Awards. Next year, he
has been invited to be Jury President for Outdoor in Adfest 2008.
Guan believes in staying close to the ground:
By giving his time to the students through workshops for young creatives
in One Show China and AdFest.
By servicing in the Singapore army as a mechanic under an oily Tank.
Graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada with a major
in Fine Arts.
Worked as an animator for Caldecott Productions and FrameWorks.
Presently, a partner in Iceberg Design Pte. Ltd.
Primary roles as an animator and vfx supervisor for tvc, broadcast
design and feature films.
Projects involved for the past and present ,in Iceberg Design, includes
channel branding and idents for HBO, MTV, ESPN, RTL, Astro. Served
as vfx supervisor on-site and finishing for 3 feature films and
numerous tvc productions.
Post-production consultant on DI workflow for film output.
Ben Rosen is one of the most prolific commercial music producers
in South East Asia and beyond. He has written , produced and performed
works for Universal , Virgin , Interscope and Altlantic records
on worldwide platinum selling albums with artistes such as Marilyn
Manson, Nikka Costa, Unwritten Law and Grinspoon. He continues to
write and produce music for mainstream popular music artistes. With
a bachelor of arts in contemporary music, Ben plays a wide range
of musical instruments including being a vocalist.
Further pursuing this passion, he continues to study, expand and
innovate into new frontiers of modern music. His advertising accolades
include a Gold lion, Cannes Film festival, CCA Gold medal and Asian
Advertising Awards Bronze medal. He has earned himself a reputation
of being the most dependable, tailoring to any given brief, expertly
executing his talents and maintaining unparalleled yet individual
quality for all clients.
David started out sweeping floors and making coffees in a production
house in Melbourne, Australia. From there he progressed to assistant
editor, working on Feature films and television dramas.
He spent several years at Horizon Films in Melbourne working in
such diverse rolls as sound recordist, sound editor, studio manager,
director and producer, but never drifting far from his first love,
editing. In 1994 he decided to make the move to Asia where he joined
VHQ Singapore as an editor working on TVCs from Asia and the Middle
East.
In those first 10 years in Asia he built up a loyal following while
he collected an array of awards.
In 2005 David went freelance and worked as an editor and post production
supervisor throughout the Asia-Pacific region and Canada, working
with many of the most talented directors.
In early 2008 David came full circle back to production when he
joined Play Films as Executive Producer. He still makes a damn good
coffee.
In a career that spans Singapore, India & Amsterdam, Farrokh has
garnered over 100 prestigious creative awards including a D&AD Silver
Nomination, precious metal at Cannes, Best of Show at AdFest & over
a dozen Merit Awards at One Show.
Under his leadership, McCann Erickson recently produced the most
non-traditional creative campaign from a traditional advertising
agency in Singapore. GMP, Singapore’s most famous viral campaign,
was covered on prime time news on all national TV channels. The
highly creative campaign also got noticed overseas and was covered
by CNN & FOX News in America, Spanish TV, Korean TV & a TV channel
in India.
Farrokh has been voted one of Singapore’s most influential Creative
Directors for the last 3 years.
Edward started as a score-keeper for bowling tournaments, then regressed
to seminar brochure writer and finally, to advertising copywriter.
In Malaysia, he spent five years at Batey before joining Y&R
(formerly known as DY&R) in 1999. There, he learned how spell
crispy crackers with capital Ks, and write short, snappy, call-to-action
body copy within a couple of hours. In late 2004, he was promoted
to Creative Director by then-WPP Godfather Neil French.
This gave him the opportunity to meet some of the finest minds in
the industry and some whom he’d rather forget. Nevertheless,
he quickly learned to how to charge, inspire and motivate creative
people, and afterwards take full credit for their work.
Under his creative leadership, Y&R Malaysia won Best of Show
at the Malaysian Kancil advertising awards, Best Malaysian agency
at the regional Adfest 2006 and Best of the best at the 2007 Y&R
Global Awards. Y&R Malaysia was subsequently recognised as the
20th most creative agency in Asia by Campaign Brief.
In 2007, Edward moved to Y&R’s Regional HQ in Singapore.
He is still looking for a good GPS system to find his way around
town.
Justin joined Ogilvy & Mather as a copywriter after obtaining
his MA in Mass Communications. Very soon after, he was voted ‘Best
Young Writer’ at the Singapore Creative Circle Awards.
In 2004, after nearly a decade with Ogilvy, Justin was handpicked
together with his partner, Koh Hwee Peng, to start up Grey’s
operations in Singapore. In four short years, they have grown the
agency by over 300%, winning an impressive list of new clients and
countless creative accolades.
Justin’s work has been acclaimed by the One Show, D&AD,
Communication Arts and Cannes. Apart from work, Justin can be found
in church or in the outdoors on his bike.
Mike started his career at Y&R in London before heading to New
Zealand in 1994.
During his time there, he has been ECD of the countries two biggest
agencies - Colenso BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi. In a short period,
he took the creatively dormant Colenso to No.19 in the Gunn Report
with a string of creative awards and Agency of the Year titles.
At Colenso BBDO, he was the Campaign Brief No.1 Creative Director
for four of his six year tenure with metal at virtually every global
award show.
Mike joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 2004. In his four years at
Saatchi he joined the Worldwide Creative Board, and regained the
No.1 Campaign Brief Creative Director spot in 2007/08.
This year has seen the agency win AWARD, The Work, and B&T Agency
of the Year. In the last few months alone, the agency has won two
D&AD Silver nominations, and six Cannes Lions. During his career
Mike has judged Adfest, D&AD, AWARD, The Hong Kong 4a’s,
NY Festival, and London international amongst others. This year,
Mike was also honoured to be asked to judge both Clio and Cannes
for the second time.
Mike is married to Stacey and has two children, Finn and Danny.
One of Greater China's leading Creative Directors, Ruth has tasted
international successes at Cannes, The One Show, D&AD, Clio, New
York Festivals, Spikes, Ad Fest, and countless other top regional
accolades. She began her career in Hong Kong at Bates, before moving
up the ranks at DDB, JWT and Leo Burnett.
A stint at Admerasia in New York, a communications agency established
to work with minority groups, opened new doors in China. As National
Executive Creative Director, at Leo Burnett Shanghai she turned
the agency into one of the region's top brand building agencies
and was also voted one of the Top 10 Creative Directors in China.
Today, Ruth is going against the grain by coming back to Hong Kong.
Her mission? To make DDB in Hong Kong a creative powerhouse.
Subun Khow started his advertising career as a copywriter at Lintas
Thailand in 1993 then later the company changed to be Lowe Bangkok.He
was promoted to be associate creative director in 1999 and had worked
there until 2003.
While he worked at Lowe Bangkok he has created both successful brand
building campaigns for clients such as Unilever, Johnson&Johnson
and many more. Also,he won the one show,the Asia Pacific AdFest,
Media Asian Advertising,New York Art Director club and London international
for many clients such as Mercedes Benz, Scholl sandle, Sharp Calculator,
Breeze detergent, The Government Housing bank and KitKat.
In 2004 he moved to be a creative director at BBDO Bangkok and suddenly
made a contribution to the company by helping BBDO Bangkok to achieve
“Agency of the year” in Adman Awards 2004 and did it
again in 2005. Since he started working in BBDO Bangkok Subun has
continue his success for winning awards that include Gold Lions
from Cannes with Clients such as Tesco Lotus , Giffarine and 12
plus roll on.
Now Subun was promoted to be Deputy Executive Creative Director
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Apart from creating works in advertising Subun also be a travel
article writer in several magazines.
Tim has plied his trade for nearly 15 years with experience in all
fields of writing including advertising, journalism, corporate copywriting
and editing.
Since switching to the glamorous world of advertising he’s
worked at some of Australia’s hottest shops including M&C
Saatchi and BMF, winning numerous domestic and international awards
for creative excellence.
When he’s not tutoring the next generation of creatives at
Award School, you’ll usually find him finishing off yet another
writing degree (Bachelor of Writing in 2001, Master of Writing in
2007), or running laps around the track.
When he visits this October Tim is hoping to figure out what Merlions
actually are and why everyone in Singapore seems to be mad for them.
Todd has worked as a creative in advertising for more than a decade,
coming from a background as an illustrator after deciding he could
create better ideas than the ones he was drawing for others.
Since leaping into the agency world as an Art Director, Todd steadily
climbed to Creative Director and then Group Creative Director by
doing the most-awarded work in every agency he’s worked for.
His CV includes top creative agencies in Australia and New Zealand
as well as Asia, and lists over 400 awards, including the coveted
Grand Prix at Cannes.
Having worked for other top creative agencies, Todd feels he has
found his home at Ogilvy, consistently rated the best agency in
the region. “The best clients and the best people, it’s
no wonder they deliver the best work.”
He is still most at home working on an ad. Just don’t ask
him to illustrate it..
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