Since I took up the ECD gig at DDB Group Singapore, we’ve won something at every award show every single year. We’ve won a Cannes Gold Lion or two most years. We’ve won the Singapore Creative Circle Grand Prix twice. I’ve judged Cannes, Spikes and AdFest. I chaired the CCA two years ago.

I hope all this counts for something.

I look forward to seeing your work this year together with the other judges of the Integrated Category at the Creative Circle Awards 2014.

Good luck.

As a student, Guan was called into the principal’s office many times because he drew comic characters all over his textbooks. One day, a teacher realized his potential and encouraged his parents, both doctors, to allow Guan to abandon their dream of medical school and pursue his real passion. That turn of events sparked a successful career. Right after he graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he surprised himself by winning the Best of Show in the LA Creative Student Competition. That win helped him land a job as one of the most successful independent west coast agency, Kresser/Craig.

Guan later returned to Singapore and worked in several creative hot shops, including Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett, before taking a regional role at Grey Worldwide. In 2005, Guan joined JWT as Regional ECD of SEA and was later promoted to the additional role of Global ECD of Unilever’s Lux. In 2012, Guan’s team brought home numerous awards for their work on Lux, including a Grand Prix in radio from Spikes.

In 2010, he became the first Singaporean to serve as a Cannes Outdoor jury president. He was also the first Asian to serve as a D&AD jury foreman in the poster category, and was the second Asian to ever chair a CLIO jury, when he led the jury for print, poster, innovative media and integrated campaigns. He also is a member of JWT’s Global Creative Council.

Guan devotes the same passion and energy that goes into his work into mentoring young talent in Asia. Guan was instrumental in setting up the Singapore Crowbar Awards, AdFest’s Young Lotus, and the Award School Asia, which foster budding talent in this region. He organized Portfolio Night and leads JWT Asia Pacific’s on-the-ground effort as part of the agency’s annual sponsorship of Young Spikes. In 2012, he chaired the Singapore’s Young Cannes Creative Competition and for the first time, the young team brought home a gold, Singapore’s first ever Young Cannes Lion.

Guan continues to hunt for his high school teacher on Facebook in order to thank her.

Erick was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has three kids. The twins, Nina & Benjamim and Francisco, also known around the house as P’quico. Throughout his career Erick has had the privilege to work with some amazing, creative people and was very fortunate to be part of teams that won several awards. He loves all things Seinfeld and lately has become a bit obsessed about documenting his daily routine with pictures. And finally, he finds it quite odd to write in the third person but knows that to write about himself in the first would be even stranger.

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One of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs in Asia, recipient of the Singapore Youth Award, Venture Partner at Golden Gate Ventures and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD. Darius’ list of entrepreneurship accomplishments go on.

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