Guan Hin Tay

Kit Kat, Milo and Nestle Omega Plus

•Headhunted by Craig Davis, former JWT Chief Creative Office Worldwide in 2005 to re-engineered JWT's creative agenda, by attracting top creative talent to improve the overall quality of JWT's creative product.

•Upon joining in 2005, JWT Singapore was awarded the Best of Show in Singapore's Creative Circle Awards for a Listerine campaign.

•Assembled an exceptionally talented creative leadership team in Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Jakarta and led JWT Asia to the biggest upwards leap in the history of The Gunn Report; its award tally at Cannes increased by 30% in 2009

•Inducted into the JWT Worldwide Creative Council for his outstanding achievements, the first South-East Asian creative.

•Played a pivoting role in "Passion," JWT Asian Creative Council, to select, improve and champion the best work each quarter.

•Steered JWT Asia to achieve both Adfest's Network of the Year and Spikes Asia Network of the Year in 2008-2009.

•Awards won include Golds at Cannes, D&AD, The One Show, Clio, AdFest, AWARD, and Spikes. Three of his campaigns are included in The Gunn Report's Top 10. Under Guan's leadership, the Philippines won their first Gold Cannes Lion and Indonesia's first Cannes Lion.

•Awarded Grand Prix Spikes Asia Radio for Unilever Lux Soap.
The only Singapore agency in 2012 to receive a Grand Prix.

• Managed Grey Global Group’s creative departments across three operating companies

• Integrated and transformed Grey Worldwide, Grey Direct Interactive and G2 for the Southeast Asia region.

• Played an instrumental role in winning the highly lucrative account: Maybank, Malaysia’s national and largest bank, Hotly contested Resorts World Genting, ValueAir, Tiger Beer Football promotions and Guinness BTL work.

• An increased local business ratio from 20% to 50%

• Relaunched Grey office in Singapore.

Clients:
GSK-Aquafresh, Horlicks, Ribena, Sensodyne
SaraLee
MayBank
Resorts World Genting
ING insurance
Alliance Bank
Carrefour
Perodua- Cars and Corporate
F&N
KL Aquaria- launch of an aquarium under the KLCC
Nokia Regional/Worldwide
Heely’s shoes-wheels in the heel
P&G- Pantene
Valueair

• Promoted from Head of Art to Creative Director for outstanding creative achievements for clients such as SingTel, Asia Pacific Breweries, McDonald’s, Raffles International, Standard Chartered Bank and Nippon Paint.

• Propelled Leo Burnett Singapore to the 5th most creative agency for two consecutive years in Campaign Brief Asia’s rankings

• Held 8th position in the magazine’s publication The Work: 2003

• Ranked amongst the top ten creative for the past four years from 2000

• Invited as a keynote speaker in the first ever One Show China Festival in Xiamen, in 2001. His topic “Ambient Advertising” proved so popular that the organizers invited him to speak for the second time in New York in 2005.

• Elected Chairman of Singapore’s 2003 Creative Circle Awards, the second Singaporean to receive this honor since the 1960s.

• Served as Chief Head of Jury for Malaysia's prestigious Kancil Awards in 2004

• Inaugurated and served as co-chairman of the First Singapore Student Creative Crowbar Awards from 2001 to 2002.

• Lectured for the IAS portfolio school annually, committing his weekends to creating and delivering a course on ‘Conceptual Thinking” at the Raffles LaSalle Institute of Singapore and Malaysia’s Lim Kok Weng University of Creative Technology.

• One of the four main speakers at the first Creative-Asia Design Symposium held by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in the Singapore Art Museum.