Jimmy Lam is Appointed President of
the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival
BANGKOK, 1st February 2007 - With immediate effect, Mr. Jimmy Lam, previously Sub-Committee Chairman of Speakers and Judges, has been promoted to President of the AdFest Working Committee, with overall responsibility for operational activities and for driving AdFest to become the unsurpassed industry event in Asia Pacific.
Jimmy has been instrumental in the development of AdFest, right from the initial conceptual stage through to its emergence as the largest creative awards and industry forum in Asia Pacific.
Vinit Suraphongchai, chairman for the event praised Jimmy as the creative powerhouse between the development of the Lotus Awards and the instigator of alliances between creative and production industries. “He has been an active and tireless member of the team that has built AdFest, sparing what little time he could from his regular Agency work. As with all award-winning creative work, AdFest is 10% idea creation and 90% hard work. Without Jimmy, the festival would be half the size it has become.”
Says Jimmy Lam, “I am honoured to accept the position of president and see great opportunities to develop ideas and involve more people from the Asia Pacific creative industries. As a catalyst for creative development in the region, both within and between different sectors, AdFest has no equal”.
After graduating in 1976 from Hong Kong Baptist University, majoring in Communication, Jimmy started as a Chinese copywriter in Hong Kong and rose through the ranks to Creative Director, and then Executive Creative Director & CEO of multi-national agencies.
Within his 30 years of creative experience, he took a sabbatical of four years to fulfill a dream to be a TV commercial film director before returning to become Regional Executive Creative Director of D’Arcy Asia Pacific and Chairman of D’Arcy Asia Pacific. Three years after his creative leadership D’Arcy Asia Pacific jumped up from the15th to the 8th most awarded agency networks at the 2002 Creative Ranking by Campaign Brief Asia Magazine.
He is currently Creative Advisor to Dentsu Asia and Dentsu Inc and Publisher & Editor of the Longyin Review, the creative show case magazine devoted to Chinese language advertising.
As well as being a pivotal member of the AdFest Working Committee, Jimmy also initiated the Long Xi Worldwide Chinese Creative Awards in 1998.
