Chief Client Officer, Asia-Pacific Global Client Lead, Huawei
Wavemaker

Allison is responsible for supporting Wavemaker’s key clients in Asia-Pacific, with a focus on driving excellence across markets in this region which includes meeting clients’ growing challenges, identifying opportunities, developing and implementing innovative solutions for them.

Allison’s background is in international client leadership; she has held roles leading Wavemaker’s largest clients, such as Huawei, Colgate-Palmolive, AXA, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, SABMiller Europe, Tiffany & Co and VISA Europe. Besides client excellence and stewardship, she is also instrumental in winning new business.

Allison also has office leadership experience, having previously been the Managing Director for the agency’s offices in Singapore and Hong Kong – with an oversight of North Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong) for the latter, ensuring the highest quality talent and transformational product in each of these markets. 

 

Why I am judging the awards....“Having witnessed and experienced how much has evolved from the start of 2019 to date, staying agile and innovative in navigating market demands has become more challenging than ever.

I am honoured to be a part of this jury and excited to assess and recognise entrants’ efforts in driving growth with creativity, effective use of data and clever implementations. As judges I think we should give extra credit to outstanding solutions amidst tough times.”

Judging panel

Thomas Wolf

Head of Online Marketing & CRM
Foodpanda

Dawn Chan

International Business Director
South China Morning Post

Jenn Villalobos

Chief Digital and Technology Officer
Prudential Thailand

Asha Gourinath

Lead For Digital Marketing & CRM | Growth Markets For SEA
Grab

Naomi Rajendram

Head of Marketing Technologies (MarTech)
PwC South East Asia

Sonal Patel

Managing Director, SEA 
Quantcast

PRERNA MEHROTRA

Managing Director Media Group
DAN Singapore

Laura Quigley

Senior Vice President, APAC
Integral Ad Science

Athreyan Sundararajan

Vice President, Marketing & Brand Services
WarnerMedia SEAP

Ravi Shankar

Global Head of Digital Marketing
AirAsia

Jo Bjordal

Chief Marketing Officer
Zalora

Jennifer Chase

vice president, digital sales, solutions & operations
Mediacorp

Phillip Cowlishaw

head of adobe advertising cloud for asia pacific
Adobe

Avery Akkineni

Head
VaynerMedia

John Matthews

Director of media and partnerships
Streamotion

Sidharth Bhasin

Associate director, media procurement APAC
Johnson & Johnson

Allison Coley

Chief Client Officer, Asia-Pacific Global Client Lead, Huawei
Wavemaker

James Sampson

regional head, partnerships & strategy
GrabAds at Grab

Michel De Rijk

ceo, apac
S4Capital

Steve Ford

Head of APAC Sales
Twitch

Bob Du

Managing Director, Singapore
Jellyfish

Marc Langenfeld

APEX Regional Lead, APAC
Publicis Media

Cindy Tan

VP, Display, APAC
TripAdvisor

Stephen Li

CEO, Asia Pacific
OMD

Diogo Andrade

Head of automation
Spotify

Mohenesh Chamith Buthgumwa

Director
Isobar & Response

Niall Hogan

Managing Director SEA,
Ogury

Silas Lewis-Meilus

head of media, apac
GSK Consumer Health

Vivian Yeung

managing director
MediaCom Singapore