Levent Guenes is holding the position as Chief Executive Officer of Havas Worldwide in Southeast Asia. In this capacity he oversees all of the group’s operational and financial functions.

Levent’s passion for the business has driven his career. With his exceptional understanding of the industry and his ability and experience of working across disciplines, Levent acts as strong binding link across all agencies in the region, driving the full integration of the group’s resources across all of Southeast Asia.

Previously, and since his transfer to Asia in late 2008, Levent served the Havas Group in various roles in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Germany since 2002.

With over 27 years’ experience, Sunny brings multi-faceted insights gained through numerous senior assignments in markets in the USA and Asia, namely Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and China. Having worked with some of the world’s biggest advertising agencies such as JWT and Lowe & Partners – Sunny has led and conceptualized award-winning campaigns across a portfolio of clients, including Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Citibank, BMW, Visa, Levi’s, Nike, Hershey’s, Pampers, Starbucks and Nescafe.

Most recently as the General Manager of Wunderman AGENDA Shanghai, a full-service integrated digital agency, he was instrumental in leading the overall business output of the agency as well as driving business growth. Prior to AGENDA, he was the Group Chief Operating Officer at Riverorchid, an independent brand communications agency that operates across Indochina – Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia. He managed the daily operations of the Thailand agencies and established the digital arm, Riverorchid Digital.

Santiphong Pimolsaengsuriya is also known as Pick, a Founder Partner and CEO of Havas Riverorchid – the Indochina specialist brand communications agency. Pick is a rare expert in the Indochina market with over 20 years of experience of providing full range of brand communications services to both local and international clients, both Pick and Havas Riverorchid are recognised by marketers and industry peers as a leaders in this region.

Matt Wiggers has his roots in solid Marketing of Fast Moving Consumer Goods for Multinational companies in Europe and Asia. In 2002, he moved to “The other side of the table” by creating his own agency. 8 years he run his company until it was sold to a multinational agency group after which Matt took over the leadership of another agency in that group.

End 2014 Matt joined Havas, because of its unique combination of entrepreneurial spirit, global network and future vision on creativity, content and technology.

“Its exciting to lead a team of professional experts that brings brand communication to new area’s in Indonesia: new technologies, new business models and new way of communications.”

Dr. Victor Joseph ‘VJ’ Yamat is the Managing Director for Havas Life in Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for developing Havas’ specialized healthcare practice across the region. In less than three years, he has lead the agency in winning Best Creative given by Havas Health Global, and was shortlisted as SEA Emerging Agency of the Year by Mumbrella Asia.

Previously, VJ was Managing Director of McCann Health Philippines and also served as Vice President for McCann Worldgroup. Prior to McCann Health, VJ was the very first employee of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group (PHCG) in Greater China, representing both Publicis Life Brand s and Saatchi Health. As Senior Vice President, he was responsible for building a team to quickly service existing global relationships and also identified local agencies for acquisition . VJ also headed the Ogilvy Health operations in Singapore and the Manila office of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide.

A medical doctor by training, VJ went through the rigors of med school (pre-med at the University of the Philippines, medical school proper at the University of the East College of Medicine) and an MBA program at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business (underthesis). VJ is also active in public speaking circles, mostly geared towards healthcare communications and the Academe.