PEOPLE

Singapore - Ogilvy PR has made three senior account manager hires with Mathew Thomas joining the healthcare practice, Tania Chew joining technology and innovation and Jessica Yom joining the government team.

Singapore - iMail Global has appointed John Millward as its media sales director for Singapore which is inline with its regional expansion plans.

Philippines - Mila M. Marquez, GM of Blackpencil, Leo Burnett's second regional network, has been elected President of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies for the Philippines (4As) 2008.

Philippines - TNBT's Crush Philippines has hired Marco Nieto as its new MD, replacing Rod Nepomuceno who was promoted to take on a regional post as VP for TNBT SE Asia.

Malaysia - Henry Tan, the chief executive of GroupM Malaysia and Singapore, is tipped to be joining regional media company Astro All Asia Networks as the company's new COO.

Singapore - The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA)'s director of Singapore Film Commission (SFC), and director of strategic relations, Man Shu Sum, has resigned to join Mark Burnett Productions Asia as CEO.

Australia - Sydney-headquartered Facilitate Digital has made two senior appointments to its recently launched UK operation, hiring former Atlas operations director Damien Healy to the role of director of operation and Sheila Williams as director of sales.

Singapore - Bezurk, online travel search engine has hired Miguel Bernas, Ryan Pham and Jeffry Tan as chief marketing officer, search marketing manager and director for supplier relations respectively.

Role description: You need to have a broad understanding of mobile communications, media and entertainment industries, internet services as well as experiences and solutions business.

Singapore - JWT has promoted creative director Ali Shabaz to executive creative director as well as adding a regional creative director role, for the Knorr account, to his job scope.

Malaysia - Ogilvy & Mather has relocated Blake Delandro from OgilvyAction Jakarta to Malaysia as managing director of Ogilvy & Mather and OgilvyAction.

1. First job ever? Marketing coordinator at a car company during my school holidays.

How does a computer graphic design teacher become a globally award-winning creative director? By re-inventing himself through big, scalable ideas, says worldwide creative director for interactive for Saatchi & Saatchi, Tom Eslinger, who is also jury president of Cyber Lotus for AdFest 2008?

The first month of 2008 saw SMRT's CEO Saw Phaik Hwa lead in terms of CEO citations in the local press with 11 citations - half of the total mentions it got in 2007 - which was way higher than any month last year.

Choosing a job based on salary has no long term value.

Singapore - DIA Brand Consultants (DIA) has hired Carlo D'aquino as creative director from design consultancy Fitch located in Doha, Qatar.

Singapore - BBDO Singapore has hired Boyd Champness and Roland Wong as senior writer and art director respectively.

Singapore - Red Dawn Communications MD and head of business, technology and telecommunications practice group, Antoine Commare, has left the company after only four months.

Singapore - Grey Group Asia Pacific's chief communications officer Frances Lui will be departing the agency end of February.

Singapore - GolinHarris has hired Christina Cheang as MD for its Singapore office - tasked to oversee its growth and development, as well as operations in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Singapore - Former ZenithOptimedia Singapore CEO Kenneth Tsang has filled the long vacant MD role at Initiative Singapore following Julie Tilley's departure a year ago.

Regional - Corporate, financial and public affairs advisory firm Gavin Anderson has promoted James Weeks to the role of executive chairman for Asia Pacific.

Singapore - OgilvyOne will soon lose two key account persons for Nokia - associate account director James Robbins and associate business director Leonard Tan.

Role description: You will play a key role in developing conference programmes and building their credibility through forming advisory boards, and recruiting speakers, moderators and panelists. You will work closely with internal teams to ensure that the conferences are relevant and will appeal to media and marketing professionals.

Singapore - Springboard Research has appointed Michael Barnes as its new Singapore-based VP for software research, reporting to CEO & EVP of research Dane Anderson.

Corporate and social responsibility has been around for more than a century, but only in recent years has it become recognised as an important part of corporate life. Ruder Finn’s Jean-Michel Dumont tells Marketing it’s not a job for spin doctors.

Malaysia - Huang Ean Hwa, ECD of McCann Worldgroup Malaysia, has been appointed as one of the judges for the direct marketing category at Cannes Lions, the international ad festival.

Singapore - Adidas Singapore has appointed a new brand manager, Janice Lee-Fang, who will be joining the company next Thursday.

Singapore - HSBC Singapore has restructured its marketing department, dissolving the head of marketing role and at the same time creating three business units which have their own product and marketing functions - the branding and sponsorship role within the department is left unaffected.