With 29 years of experience in the advertising industry in Vietnam. She has started her career at Bates Worldwide 141 in 1994. Then moved to Publicis group as Buying Director in 2001, won P&G prize of brand monetization. From 2008 joined Yahoo Singapore and back into Vietnam set up Yahoo VN winning the President Club Award for Yahoo Global in 2009, one of pioneer in digital marketing. Started up VBA in Nov 2010, one of the leading digital agency growing business, won Cannes Award - Youtube leader board 2019 of LG World Cup Quang Hai. Joined ADK in Jan 2020 until current as CEO of ADK Group Vietnam.

Yasuyuki Katagi is a distinctive leader who has a wealth of global experience in the communication/advertising industry. In his experience spanning more than 30 years, Katagi took on management roles based out of several locations worldwide from Germany to China. His entrepreneurial drive led to the founding of Red Wasabi, a marketing consultancy in Shanghai under Ogilvy’s umbrella before securing the position of CEO of McCann Worldgroup Japan/Korea. In 2018, his highly established and diverse work experiences led to his appointment as CEO for global operations at ADK Inc., to oversee its vast global network.

David is the ADK America’s CEO. In this role, he leverages nearly three decades of experience in helping clients harness the power of brands and communications to navigate successfully through change and achieve business growth. In a world that is increasingly media rich and experiential, David helps clients develop brand and communications strategies, and systems and tools that produce real results in personal and organizational performance.

Neville has over 25 years of experience leading cross-functional teams in design, branding, UI//UX, web technology, search marketing and social media. At ADK Rage, he innovated several notable optimizations regarding agency planning, agile workflows, and new business lead funnels. Notably, Medhora pioneered an audience relationship methodology that greatly improved the agency’s ideation process and delivered strong outcomes for clients. He also spearheaded key digital initiatives for clients within the boundaries of the traditional offline format.

THANAWAT MEESAWAT, with spanning over 25 years in marketing and advertising industry, experienced with multiple clients. He has been working with ADK since 2005, as today CEO of ADK Thailand, his job is to make sure all colleagues, business partners, clients achieve their goals. His principle is “Sharing values are crucial for driving people & business growth.” Beside his main role, he is a Vice President of The Advertising Association of Thailand, supporting the industry and collaborating with government office relating to the advertising.

With more than 20 years of experience in Commercial Finance and FP&A, Ryo joined ADK in 2020 taking the role of COO Thailand and CFO Vietnam. He has mostly worked for multinational organizations, such as Microsoft, Ogilvy, McCann, spending more than 10 years in the marketing communication industry. Also as an Executive Officer in the Corporate Planning Division at C Channel, he played a role in the company's listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He has started the role of Commercial Finance Lead for all markets in ADK Global Network from 2024.

His 26-year career in marketing is composed of various experiences, having worked on both agency and client sides in three locations - Tokyo, Bangkok, and Shanghai. In the agency, he has experience in both account management and planning, which allows him to excel in viewing and analyzing things from different angles and perspectives. Particularly, he has a cumulative 15 years of business experience in Shanghai, giving him a deep understanding of the marketing business in China and a wide network of connections. His management style is a laissez-faire approach built on his strong people skills, and many who have worked with him continue to respect him.

Throughout Hajime’s professional career of 25+ years in the marketing and communication industry, he has built expertise managing a variety of clients, both Japanese and global, B2C and B2B. Hajime has deep experience working in global agency network, helping clients expand globally as well as orchestrating multi-disciplinary operations. Before moving to Singapore in 2023, he was based in Vietnam from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that, he actually had a stint in Singapore from 2015 to 2020, focusing on supporting client businesses’ expansion plans in SEA region.

Norio Nishizuka has over 29 years of experience in sales promotion, healthcare marketing, global branding, and more, gained through his career in a global agency. He worked as a Japanese client business lead in Shanghai from 2006 to 2008 and was awarded the China Marketing Effective Award in 2008 for his contributions to significant business growth for clients. After returning to Japan, he led the consumer healthcare unit and provided innovative work. Since 2018, he has been assigned as the CEO of ADK China Group. He is Leading agency business model transformation according to the China dynamic market trend. His leadership style is focused on a strong passion for client business success and people-oriented team management.

With more than 30 years of experience in the Marketing Communication industry, Hiro Joined ADK TAIWAN as the Chairman & CEO in 2017. He started his career in a Japanese mega agency, then spent more than a decade with a global network agency and played the role as the Managing Director. He also experienced the client side of the business being the General Manager of a global brand. He started to take a double role as CEO of ADK Hong Kong since 2022.

Pradeep Shankar has nearly 3 decades of experience across marketing, advertising, digital and technology. He has previously worked with global organizations including Y&R, FCB, RR Donnelley and has partnered with global companies across the world to strategize and build high-performing solutions. He joined Rage in 2008 and was part of the leadership team that expanded the business across APAC including Australia. He is currently the MD & CEO of ADK India, ADK Australia and ADK Rage, the global solution centre for the Network based in India.

Masato Suematsu is an experienced leader with strategy background in various fields including marketing communication, branding and business strategy. He started his career in Tokyo in 1999, later joined ADK Tokyo HQ in 2004, moving on to become Regional Strategy Director of ADK Global Network in 2015 based in Singapore. Since 2019 he has been part of leadership team of the network, which led to his next role as CEO of ADK Thailand operation in 2021. Since January 2024, Suematsu’s role involves leading strategic vision of the network as Chief Strategy Officer, while being part of management team of Thailand and India operation.

Naoko Takeda leads strategy at ADK Global across corporate & solution functions from July, 2021. She has been involved in ADK’s overseas business since her joining in 2003. Since 2013, she has been instrumental as a media planner focusing on solution development, consulting in Data Driven Marketing (DDM) & planning optimal marcom investment in Asia & Greater China regions with her expertise in user data analysis & ROI optimization modelling.