Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand Thailand
CEO SOUTH EAST ASIA at J.Walter Thompson
Advertising / Marketing / PR
From a very young age I wanted to become a professional soccer player but a bad injury shattered that dream so I decided to play in an advertising agency. This was at the time you could smoke in the board room, a mobile phone was as big as a bag pack and a copy change took two days. I am only 54.
I’ve always liked working with people and bring out the best in them. I am proud that almost every place where I have worked turned into a better place with diverse and inspiring colleagues.
The bravest thing I ever did was picking up a young family in the Netherlands and move to the Philippines to run the Ogilvy Group in 2001. It became the start of an amazing journey in which I had the oppor...