I recently returned (3 years ago) to my home land of Montreal Canada after spending nearly half my life Asia
(22 years) located in China, intentionally.
I speak fluent Mandarin amongst quite a few other languages and I have worked all across the Asian region in markets like SG, JP, KR, HK, TW in addition to China.
This beautiful work/life experience saw me in creative leadership roles at Ogilvy, AKQA, R/GA, Disney and in my last post in Asia, I was CCO at Publicis groupe China overseeing international, global and glocal clients.
Upon returning to Canada with my partner and son, I joined the kyu collective heading up global creative for Sid Lee and I currently am CCO at C2 working on the ‘SXSW of the north (equivalent) and other B2B white-label events and experiences - this last move was also intentional in order to add new layers, skills and give myself more opportunities to create side by side with technology.
I have a fantastic grasp of global creative business and leadership in various cultural contexts and also believe that, having integrated from early adulthood in Asia and now being able to leverage this experience in North America, gives me an unfair advantage that I can only continue to scale.