Richard Bleasdale Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

Core focus - Purposeful, positive, sustainable growth and impact in Asia.The Taipan Partnership excels in management consulting, innovation and transformation in the start-up, sustainability and marketing services sectors across Asia Pacific.Current/past projects:- consultancy for an urban farming start-up on global brand positioning and marketing strategy- consultancy to a food waste consumer app on market entry strategy in SE Asia- advisory to sustainability/marketing consultancies on expansion into Asia- consultancy to UK social content business on Asia market entry and expansion- business transformation project for a specialist PR/Communications agency- management of two APAC creative/digital agency pitch processes- freelance CMO role for Singapore tech start-up- authoring of a best practice guide for a global marketing communications industry body- podcast/video series on Asia’s transformational change-makers- podcast/video series on marketing creativity with APAC industry publisher- supporting a global M&A consultancy on target prospects in SE Asia

Singapore

Core focus - Advising NZ-start-ups on successful market-entry and growth in SE Asia.Ministry of Awesome is a force for high-growth startups in Aotearoa New Zealand. We support startup ambition, build capability, and support success for early-stage NZ founders and startups with global ambition.Our purpose is to positively impact the future of New Zealand through the transformation of its economy into one that is innovation-led, high-value, and sustainable for people and the planet.

Singapore

Core focus - Advising on brand strategy and marketing focus for longterm growth.Growing together - we’re on a mission to prove how growing food together can help us grow as people. Through education, advocacy, and sustainable farming practices, we want to rekindle the bond between people, their food, and the earth, to build healthier, more connected communities and a platform for a more resilient, secure food system.

Singapore, Singapore

Core focus - Consultancy to global start-ups on brand strategy, marketing focus and GTM.Orbit Startups helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets in Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Orbit invests through its fund SOSV, a US-based venture capital firm with US$1.4 billion in assets under management. As a mentor, I help the startups with marketing/digital transformation and growth.

Singapore

Core focus - Unlocking the behaviours and beliefs that produce leading commercial creativity in Asia.In Creation Stories, brand and agency leaders talk about how they collaborated to bring a great piece of work to life. Available in both video and podcast form, Creation Stories is presented by Campaign Asia-Pacific and hosted by Richard Bleasdale.

Singapore

Core focus - Marvelling at my wife's unbelievably, amazing knack for building a thriving business out of beautiful things.Bode seeks out extraordinary fabrics, wallpapers, leathers and furnishings from around the world. Passionate about all our collections, each is handpicked to bring inspiration to your spaces.Our mandate is to offer designs that are contemporary and not so ‘run-of-the-mill’ as most. Leading edge collections like Timorous Beasties and Designs of the Time create interesting palettes such as bold prints and classic linens, whilst others like Decortex Firenze uses technology to innovate.Based in Singapore, BODE offers very personal service with a focus upon providing solutions to interior designers and retail clients. Founded in 2008 by Jenny Lewis, we are all about design, knowledge, service and integrity.

Singapore

Core focus - transforming the agency culture & capabilities, client partnerships and commercial performance.We are Construct Digital, the Transformation Agency. We help companies spot, interpret and leverage opportunities created by change by specialising in three key areas: Marketing Transformation, Experience Transformation and Business Transformation.Our team of digital natives are always constructing things. We’re never comfortable with the status quo. We’re creatives, tinkerers, scientists, engineers and inventors, all in the pursuit of what’s coming next in marketing.

Singapore

Core focus - leading the team to successfully win the Singapore Tourism Board(STB) appointment and the strategy for STB agency partnerships going forwards.Ebiquity is the world leader in media investment analysis.We harness the power of data to provide independent, fact-based advice, enabling brand owners to perfect media investment decisions and improve business outcomes.We are a data-driven solutions company helping brand owners drive efficiency and effectiveness from their media spend, eliminating wastage and creating value.

Singapore

Core focus - Helping the next generation build a high-performance agency culture, trusted client partnerships and profitable commercial business.Since 2007, TSLA has been delivering change that has positively impacted businesses, creativity and culture in Asia. The agency was born and founded in Singapore, and now operates confidently across Asia through a series of custom-made networks, managed from its offices in Singapore, & Shanghai. And globally, as part of he Mother family, with offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires.We do our best work with ambitious clients who are urgently seeking to reconcile the differences between good and great, even if that means venturing beyond the comfort zones of logic, research and reason.

Singapore

Core focus - Building the Asia Pacific consulting practice to champion and mentor the power of trusted marketer/agency partnerships.The Observatory International is a global management consultancy that specialises in enabling marketers and marketing procurement in leading brands to maximise the performance of their internal and external marketing resources - agencies, people, technology, processes and budgets.We are an independent consultancy, comprising of equity partners, with world-class experience and expertise in business, management, marketing and marketing communications.We provide solutions that enable effective and efficient engagement, the aim of which is to significantly improve collective performance, for superior and sustainable results.We have offices in the key strategic centers of London, Paris, Hamburg, Zurich, Dubai, Johannesburg, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York.

Singapore

Core focus - Building the agency's Asia Pacific network of people, offices and clients, and its reputation for outstanding strategic thinking and creative ideation.We are 'For the Forward'.Today, Iris is a thriving micro network of over 1,000 people in 14 locations across the globe.We deliver a multitude of fully integrated specialisms within creative, consulting and mar-tech to some of the most progressive clients around the world.Our role in the agency marketplace has always been that of the bold challenger: We are here to help our clients find competitive advantage in the face of change and disruption.

Singapore

Core focus - Designing the strategy and roll-out of the regional agency network.We are the agency that's utterly focused on the individual.

Singapore

Core focus - Partnering with the local management team to transform the agency's service offering, client portfolio and commercial performance.DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., known internationally as DDB, is a worldwide marketing communications network. It is owned by Omnicom Group Inc, one of the world's largest advertising holding companies and is recognised as one of the most creative & effective communications specialists in the industry.

New Zealand & Uk

Core focus - Learning my craft from the best in the business.DDB New Zealand - WRC and Rapp CollinsAIM Direct New ZealandOgilvy & Mather UKJWT UK

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