MediaContacts SE Asia bulks up

Regional - Havas Digital's MediaContacts has made a slew of appointments across SE Asia which includes promoting Ullas Sahadevan, former solution architect, as country director for Malaysia.

Regionally, the agency has hired Dentsu's Numjai Lurngnateetap as country director for Thailand, while Kshama Billore has been appointed to run global search campaigns from her base in Bangalore, India.

Joining the Singapore operations is senior consultant digital, Gaurav Gupta from EuroRSCG India and solution architect, acquisition marketing, Deric Loh from Y&R Singapore.

MediaContacts is also planning for a full-service creative agency expansion in Indonesia, where Havas Digital agency MPG has a large portfolio of blue-chip clients.

"As a start-up, we are attempting to build an organization with clear service offerings and specialized domain knowledge to execute to those service offerings – which will be Search Optimization, Enterprise Browser-Based Analytics, Paid Search and Media Trading on exchanges such as rightmedia.com and behavioral targeting firm komli.com," Rajeev Bala, MD, SE Asia for MediaContacts, said.

He adds, "Expertise would also include Usability and Relevancy Expertise in domains such as AJAX, Flash and Rich MediaAd-serving that helps the enterprise get its brand to the 'edge' of the web."