In addition, Starcom has hired Dinesh Sandhu, most recently business development director at Agenda Interactive in Kuala Lumpur, to the role of business director and head of Starcom IP Singapore, a position that has remained vacant since the departure of Christer Eriksson.
The agency has also made two new hires from the client side, bringing in Rose Luk from Johnson & Johnson to take the position of strategy manager in Hong Kong.
Suyesh Shankar arrives from a previous position as Dell marketing manager in India, to become strategy director in Singapore.
“It’s important in building the team that we have a really diverse group of people, in terms of both breadth and depth of experience as well as nationality, because it gives us the flexibility and different perspectives we need to grow the business,” said Starcom IP Asia GM Pushkar Sane.