Mike started his career at Y&R in London before heading to New Zealand in 1994.

During his time there, he has been ECD of the countries two biggest agencies - Colenso BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi. In a short period, he took the creatively dormant Colenso to No.19 in the Gunn Report with a string of creative awards and Agency of the Year titles.

At Colenso BBDO, he was the Campaign Brief No.1 Creative Director for four of his six year tenure with metal at virtually every global award show.

Mike joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 2004. In his four years at Saatchi he joined the Worldwide Creative Board, and regained the No.1 Campaign Brief Creative Director spot in 2007/08.

This year has seen the agency win AWARD, The Work, and B&T Agency of the Year. In the last few months alone, the agency has won two D&AD Silver nominations, and six Cannes Lions. During his career Mike has judged Adfest, D&AD, AWARD, The Hong Kong 4a’s, NY Festival, and London international amongst others. This year, Mike was also honoured to be asked to judge both Clio and Cannes for the second time.

Mike is married to Stacey and has two children, Finn and Danny.

Ruth Lee
DDB, Hong Kong

One of Greater China's leading Creative Directors, Ruth has tasted international successes at Cannes, The One Show, D&AD, Clio, New York Festivals, Spikes, Ad Fest, and countless other top regional accolades. She began her career in Hong Kong at Bates, before moving up the ranks at DDB, JWT and Leo Burnett.

A stint at Admerasia in New York, a communications agency established to work with minority groups, opened new doors in China. As National Executive Creative Director, at Leo Burnett Shanghai she turned the agency into one of the region's top brand building agencies and was also voted one of the Top 10 Creative Directors in China. Today, Ruth is going against the grain by coming back to Hong Kong. Her mission? To make DDB in Hong Kong a creative powerhouse.

Subun Khow started his advertising career as a copywriter at Lintas Thailand in 1993 then later the company changed to be Lowe Bangkok.He was promoted to be associate creative director in 1999 and had worked there until 2003.

While he worked at Lowe Bangkok he has created both successful brand building campaigns for clients such as Unilever, Johnson&Johnson and many more. Also,he won the one show,the Asia Pacific AdFest, Media Asian Advertising,New York Art Director club and London international for many clients such as Mercedes Benz, Scholl sandle, Sharp Calculator, Breeze detergent, The Government Housing bank and KitKat.

In 2004 he moved to be a creative director at BBDO Bangkok and suddenly made a contribution to the company by helping BBDO Bangkok to achieve “Agency of the year” in Adman Awards 2004 and did it again in 2005. Since he started working in BBDO Bangkok Subun has continue his success for winning awards that include Gold Lions from Cannes with Clients such as Tesco Lotus , Giffarine and 12 plus roll on.

Now Subun was promoted to be Deputy Executive Creative Director . Apart from creating works in advertising Subun also be a travel article writer in several magazines.