J. Walter Thompson Philippines has appointed Mr Mark Webster as its new
managing director.
Prior to his appointment, Mr Webster was managing director of JWT
Vietnam.
He has also served as North Asia regional account director for De Beers
at JWT, and was at the helm of the account in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan
and Korea.
Mr Webster began his advertising career in London at DMB&B, which he
joined as a trainee and left a decade later to set up his own
business.
As a senior partner of Knightsbridge Communications London, Mr Webster
worked on communications projects as a consultant to companies such as
IBM and Telstar Records.
Later, Mr Webster moved on to JWT Hong Kong as director of business
development and was responsible for all new business developments and
key clients that included Nortel and NBC/CNBC.
With his expertise he helped spin off Enterprise and then Dialog, two
major divisions of JWT Hong Kong, into successful standalone entities.