Chris was previously Executive Creative Director at BBDO, DDB, Lowe and digital agency Interone China.
He founded and ran his own Agency in London, and another in Vietnam. He also worked at Ogilvy Singapore and Tribal DDB Amsterdam. He's now a partner in four different new Generative AI startups.
Two golds and two Silvers at Campaign Asia’s Creative Agency of the Year Awards across four different agency networks as ECD.
He has created and produced national and global campaigns for clients like Coke, BMW, Google, Unilever, Visa and Havaianas.
Chris works with people all over the world. From New York to London to Singapore to Bangkok to Singapore and Sydney. Whoever is best for each job, not just who is sitting in the office.
He's aiming to start a PhD in Gen AI at RMIT this year. A regular lecturer, mentor, panelist and advertising awards jury member, he’s also a book author and illustrator, writing for his three grown-up children plus 5yr old twins. Father of a doctor, an MA student and a professional drummer.
If he hadn’t been an Adman, he would have loved to have gone into comedy. ‘They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.’ Bob Monkhouse