• PROFILE

    Seasoned marketing and advertising professional with 12+ years of experience adding value through digitally driven initiatives for global brands. Good listener, passionate, hands-on and accountable, with a track record of driving market share growth and engagement across Europe, Australia and South East Asia.

    • SINGAPORE & YANGON    2011-2020       Discovery Channel, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Ogilvy
    • BARCELONA                        2009-2011      GREY and JWT
    • LONDON & SYDNEY          2006-2009     GREY

    Skilled in: Go-to-market strategy / Multi-channel campaigns (digital and offline) / Branded customer experiences / Narrative & storytelling / Social media & Influencers marketing / World class entertainment events

     

    Confident with: C-Suite level Interactions / Management and growth of teams / Building and managing external partnerships

  • HiGHLIGHTS

    Sustainability

    Earth Day 2020

    Discovery Channel APAC

     

    Developed the concept and script of Discovery Channel's Earth Day video, featuring our own "Asian Mother Earth" and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day (22 April 1970)

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    Digital Transformation

    Shark Week 2020

    Discovery Channel SEA

     

    Redefined Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2020 audience approach to our flagship show across digital media - From fear mongering to love mongering - to win back millennials

     

    Key results:

    • Reached 139M social media users (Facebook and Instagram) across SEA 
    • Launched Discovery Channel’s 1st ever Tinder profile campaign (Philippines)
    • 1st in SEA:  Digital freeview premiere of " Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef"  via Facebook Live Watch Party (with 35K live views).

    World Class Entertainment

    E3 2018

    Ubisoft Singapore

     

    Pre-launched Skull & Bones, South East Asia’s first ever AAA multiplayer game at E3 2017/8 in Los Angeles. The biggest stage for video game entertainment in the world, netting over 10M views across our primary marketing assets (CGI Trailer / Gameplay Video / Community) and +1.5M beta access registrations.

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    Marketing Effectiveness

    Effies 2013 and Marketing Excellence Awards 2014

    Ogilvy Singapore

     

    Silver Effies 2013 / Philips Aquatouch "Caveman": Drove a 44% growth and an all-time high of 50% market share for within 2 months in Singapore. Followed by a rollout of its integrated award winning campaign across SEA and Australia.

     

    Marketing Excellence Awards 2014 / Epson "ThINK outside the printer". A Youtube lead (+1,000,000 views) video campaign targeting SMEs. A single campaign that seized for Epson a 161% increase in sales YoY across 6 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia. Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam).

  • JOURNEY

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    Marketing Manager, SEA

    Discovery Channel (Dec 2019 - Now)

    • Marcomms and PR. Led all consumer advertising (paid and organic) and PR (earned) for Discovery Channel in SEA. Managed external agencies (PR) and our internal Social Community Team.

     

    • Sustainability. Engaged Discovery Channel's local talent and influencers to drive our sustainability efforts across our SEA channel network through linear, Digital/Social, PR and/for our AdSales business through branded content (#ActNow@home)
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    International Product Manager

    Ubisoft Singapore (March 2017 - Sep 2019)

     

    • Branding. Delivered the brand style guide through defining a new generation of modern, aspirational and relatable pirates to our community and gaming target audience.

     

    • Branded content and experiences. Provided brand experiences at gaming and entertainment events through partnerships and collaborations with illustrators, designers, motion graphic agencies along with hands on gameplay sessions and merchandising.
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    APAC Marketing & Operations Service Lead

    Microsoft Singapore (July 2016 - December 2016)

    • Always-On Marketing. Enabled Microsoft APAC’s digital transformation through Marketing Automation Tools, and data-based insights. Drove global engagement programmes via multi-touch consumer journeys to achieve Marketing Automation Qualified leads (MAQLs), across commercial audience.

    As a result of our week on week optimisations, our APAC Always On campaign for Azure (Microsoft Cloud Platform Solution) and Office reduced cost per acquisition from $1026 to $358 for Azure and from $2,535 to $583 for Office in its first quarter (by end FY17Q1).

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    SEA Account Director

    Ogilvy Singapore (August 2011 - May 2016)

     

    • Singapore Tourism Board (Great Human Experiment”) Social media and influencers led campaign that shifted Singaporeans perceptions about service. We proved what everyday Singaporeans were able to do in the name of great customer service. Enjoy our taxi driver singing “Eye of the tiger” in the name of service here.

     

    • Myanmar National Airlines (“Sharing our Spirit”). Led and won Ogilvy Myanmar ́s first strategic pitch to launch Myanmar s airline internationally (to/from Singapore)  after 50 years in the shadows. Within 4 months, MNA became the top 3 airline Facebook site in Myanmar  (100,000+ likes) led by  a mobile programmatic-driven campaign. Here is the link to the case study and initial results.
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    Regional Account Manager – SEAT (Volkswagen Group)

    Atletico/GREY Barcelona (2010-2011)

    • SEAT Ibiza ST “47.3%”. Launched the 1st ever Sport Tourer model of SEAT ́s best seller, the Ibiza, across Europe. It married what people desire in a car (beauty and technology) with what they need (space and functionality). Empowered the campaign with social influencers, chefs, artists and architects who helped spread the campaign through their personal media channels

    Account Manager

    S.C.P.F/JWT Barcelona (2009-2010)

    Regional Account Executive toManager

    Grey London & Sydney (2006-20008)

  • Education 

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    London Metropolitan University

    Masters, MA Mass Communications

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    Manchester Metropolitan University

    BA (Hons) Business Communications and Marketing