Co-Founder, Brand Strategy & Creative Director
Singapore
Starting from scratch, I passionately nurtured Acacia into the Local Hero Brand Agency of the Year 2014 Finalist that it is today.Through a little better than a decade I recruited, managed, led, nurtured & inspired a cross-functional team of design, account management and marketing talents, with at least 10 colleagues reporting directly to me. Driven by my passion for the work (and relentless business development), sales increased year on year even through the Financial Crisis… Show more Starting from scratch, I passionately nurtured Acacia into the Local Hero Brand Agency of the Year 2014 Finalist that it is today.Through a little better than a decade I recruited, managed, led, nurtured & inspired a cross-functional team of design, account management and marketing talents, with at least 10 colleagues reporting directly to me. Driven by my passion for the work (and relentless business development), sales increased year on year even through the Financial Crisis of 2008. All the while, I tirelessly developed and fine-tuned the Agency's Brand Strategy and Creative Methodology, training and upgrading the skills of both the Creative and Account Management teams.This tenacity has led us to engage Fortune 500 companies as well as local SME start-ups at all levels - from CEOs, academics, specialists to entrepreneurs. In spite of this diversity, our methodology allowed us to harness the synergy among their teams to deliver branding & marketing campaigns that successfully:• Delivered record sales/sales turn-around regionally• Established market leadership• Re-positioned foreign listed corporations, MNCs & SMEs• Re-branded businesses for local and overseas growth• Launched start-upsNot bad for a decade of doing what I love doing, starting from scratch. It has certainly been enriching serving as branding and marketing counsel to (probably) hundreds of organisations, all with their own peculiar brand of boardroom culture.And throughout, I found the time and satisfaction to deliver seminars from Cambodia to Madrid, facilitate design clinics, get certified as an Practising Management Consultant, mentor youths & entrepreneurs, and of course judge at and win a couple of awards. Show less