dentsu Creative Singapore names new managing director

Dentsu has appointed Fiona Huang as managing director, dentsu Creative Singapore, effective 25 March. In her new role, Huang will scale the agency's creative business.  

Huang has over 17 years of experience in driving brand-to-business growth through award-winning creative excellence and marketing effectiveness, according to a statement seen by MARKETING-INTERACTIVE. Additionally, Huang has consistently initiated and delivered outstanding results for new-to-market brands, local and global icons across a multitude of categories, including tourism, F&B, technology, lifestyle, art and institutions. 

She was most recently general manager at BLKJ Havas where she drove creative, commercial and cultural growth for clients and the agency collective. Huang also grew and cemented BLKJ Havas' role as Havas' APAC creative flagship, according to her LinkedIn. Prior to that role, she was business director, senior account director and account director at BLKJ. 

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Other roles she's held in her career include brand, business, account management at Forsman & Bodenfors Singapore and account director at DDB Group Singapore and BBDO Worldwide. 

“With a proven track record of strategic leadership and operational excellence, Huang embodies the drive and vision for the power of creativity to propel our creative business to its next chapter of growth. This appointment reinforces our commitment to innovation and sustainable success, and I am confident that Huang’s expertise will inspire our teams and deliver impactful value to our stakeholder," said Prakash Kamdar, CEO, dentsu Singapore and CEO, clients and solutions, SEA, dentsu. 

“There’s never a dull moment in the landscape that we operate in, so we must never be dull too. There are more ways than ever for us to reimagine the future of creativity, so the onus is on us to keep at it meaningfully with intention and agility. I look forward to working with every talent on the floor and our client partners to steer this new chapter together – harnessing dentsu’s longstanding strength in innovation and technology to play out the intersection of innovation and creativity – in service of creating common ground between brands and people," said Huang about her new role. 

Huang's appointment comes on the back of Singapore naming Rahul Thappa as managing director for its CXM and media business to enhance its integrated adtech and martech solutions. 

Meanwhile, across the border, dentsu appointed Bala Pomaleh as CEO, media, dentsu Malaysia. Effective 3 March 2025, Pomaleh will report to Audrey Chong, CEO, dentsu Malaysia.

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