Newly elected Executive Committee Member Harpreet Singh Kaintel of ZenithOptimedia has been appointed Chairman of the Media Committee, replacing Julie Tilley who returned to Sydney in December 2006. Another new face, Shirley Yeo of DDB Worldwide now heads the Ethics and Better Business Committee.
Stephen Mangham now helms the Creative Standards Committee, and together with Yeo replaces Eric Teng, who has left the industry to join the philanthropy and charity sector.
President Anthony Kang will chair the new International Relations Committee that is responsible for fostering inter-country relations and driving initiatives that are of mutual interest and objectives among the 4As in the region. He will assist in the setting up of the Confederation of Asian Advertising Agency Associations (C4A) that will be registered in Singapore later this year.
Vincent Hoe from AG Advertising will continue to chair the Membership Committee; James Miner of GroupM the Interactive Committee in addition to the PR & Member Relations Committee; Steven Ong of Republic Advertising the Education Committee and Faith Gay the Finance Committee.
Both Singh and Yeo were recently elected to the 4As Executive Committee during its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held last month.
At the same meeting, Gan Boon Guan of OMD Singapore was elected 2 nd Vice-President while Angus Fraser of J. Walter Thompson Singapore was elected Executive Committee Member. Honorary Secretary Faith Gay of Mediatron Advertising will also serve as 1st Vice President, replacing Teng.
President Kang said in a statement after the EGM, that the association needs to constantly inject new blood into the Executive Committee to help rejuvenate and renew the role of the 4As as they move forward with bigger and more challenges ahead.
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