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GrowthOps Asia welcomed Shakira Pathmarajah as its new Talent Acquisition Head, managing recruitment in GrowthOps for Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, as well as remote hiring in India. Shakira has more than a decade of experience in technology recruitment with a broad experience in digitised recruitment systems, such

Country Director for ADA Malaysia, Low Bee Yin, is leaving the company after almost 3 years. Bee Yin (picture) started as GM with ADA, an award-winning data and artificial intelligence company that designs and executes integrated digital, analytics, marketing, and eCommerce solutions. In her long career, she has helped manage

At the recent 11th Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) Global Best Practice Awards, Malaysian public relations (PR) agency Perspective Strategies was named the biggest winner – taking home four Gold Awards in the Advocacy & Awareness, B2C/Consumer Communications, B2B Communications and Communications to Gen-Z categories, and three Silver Awards in

By Mark Tungate “I wasn’t only determined to work in advertising,” says Sandra Bold, “I wanted to be a big name in advertising.” Having just taken on a new role as CCO of Wunderman Thompson Benelux – after almost four years at Publicis Italy, most recently as global creative director

Mediabrands Malaysia retains its position as the leading media network in RECMA’s latest qualitative evaluation for Malaysia, with Universal McCann (UM) and Initiative scoring a Dominant profile consistently for a five-year period. The qualitative evaluation which is published twice yearly sees UM and Initiative including BPN in the top two

Following a flurry of recent Creative Director moves in the industry, Hans Lee is now Creative Director at Cheil Malaysia.  He joins from Lion & Lion where he was Creative Director for more than two and a half years.  Hans is one of the founding members of ‘The Bicycle Map

Havas Immerse Malaysia has appointed Donevan Chew as Chief Creative Officer for the agency, taking over from Kerry Khoo.  In his new role, Donevan will continue to lead the strategic vision as well as bolster the creative offering in response to growing and diversified client needs in the market. Previously

Independent agency Muma Malaysia welcomes its new creative director, Kevin Teh effective November 1, 2022.  He was previously the in-house creative lead at Carsome working on regional campaigns and has 14 years of advertising experience with global network agencies Dentsu Malaysia, McCann Worldgroup, Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi.  “I would

IPG Mediabrands has today announced the appointment of Elina Peek Lantz as Managing Director of Reprise, the global performance marketing agency within the Mediabrands network. A highly qualified data-driven marketer, Elina has 17 years’ experience working with international teams in corporate and start-up environments. She will be responsible for innovating

After a hiatus of 11 years, Starcom is back to managing media planning and buying duties for TV and digital for P&G for the next three years, overseeing 17 brands except SK-ll which remains with MediaCom. The RFI and RFP procedures lasted a full year, and it is understood that