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May 2021
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About Harmandar Singh
Harmandar Singh, known as Ham, is an advertising creative director gone rogue.
After a stint as a failed pub guitarist, he created over 400 TV commercials and picked up hundreds of awards to his name early in his career. Then he lost it, and broke out on his own.
Been there, seen it, done it, Ham has worked as a creative lead in top ad agencies in London, New York, Tokyo, Manila….
Creative directors have long lunches with him as he is also the Malaysia Official Country Rep for the Cannes Lions and Spikes Asia.
For 11 years, he was a weekly columnist with The Star and New Sunday Times writing about stuff people wanted to read but did not have the cojones to speak up about.
He has his own magazine called MARKETING and tries to stop writing 10,000 words a week.
Ham was the first to start an independent industry magazine in the region 15 years ago but has since folded the business in Singapore (citing boredom), and in Jakarta gave it all away to his staff.
In 2009, in a fit of psychotropic exuberance, Ham created and hosted the Youth Engagement Summit, inspired by Obama’s victory on the theme of Change. Featuring Donald Trump, Twitter Founder Biz Stone, Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, etc.
Ham has founded industry events like the MC2 Awards, Malaysian Media Conference, Malaysian CMO Conference& Awards, Best of Global Digital Marketing, APPIES Malaysia, Adrenaline Awards…
He had his own ad school once and collaborated a Bachelor’s degree programme on Social Comms for UPSI. He is now Adjunct Professor at Taylor’s University Lakeside campus.
He probably knows everybody in the marketing communications industry this side of the planet.
Ham has led media missions for MERCY Malaysia to Nepal and Syrian refugee camps in the Beqaa Valley.
In a sanitised world of political correctness and derivative thinking, he does not suffer fools.
Ham wears many hats, but only one turban.
After a stint as a failed pub guitarist, he created over 400 TV commercials and picked up hundreds of awards to his name early in his career. Then he lost it, and broke out on his own.
Been there, seen it, done it, Ham has worked as a creative lead in top ad agencies in London, New York, Tokyo, Manila….
Creative directors have long lunches with him as he is also the Malaysia Official Country Rep for the Cannes Lions and Spikes Asia.
For 11 years, he was a weekly columnist with The Star and New Sunday Times writing about stuff people wanted to read but did not have the cojones to speak up about.
He has his own magazine called MARKETING and tries to stop writing 10,000 words a week.
Ham was the first to start an independent industry magazine in the region 15 years ago but has since folded the business in Singapore (citing boredom), and in Jakarta gave it all away to his staff.
In 2009, in a fit of psychotropic exuberance, Ham created and hosted the Youth Engagement Summit, inspired by Obama’s victory on the theme of Change. Featuring Donald Trump, Twitter Founder Biz Stone, Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, etc.
Ham has founded industry events like the MC2 Awards, Malaysian Media Conference, Malaysian CMO Conference& Awards, Best of Global Digital Marketing, APPIES Malaysia, Adrenaline Awards…
He had his own ad school once and collaborated a Bachelor’s degree programme on Social Comms for UPSI. He is now Adjunct Professor at Taylor’s University Lakeside campus.
He probably knows everybody in the marketing communications industry this side of the planet.
Ham has led media missions for MERCY Malaysia to Nepal and Syrian refugee camps in the Beqaa Valley.
In a sanitised world of political correctness and derivative thinking, he does not suffer fools.
Ham wears many hats, but only one turban.
