Living Marketing David Ko

As the corporate world grapples with creating environments that truly embrace every individual, Kate's voice has emerged as a beacon of progress and hope. She joins us to share her impressive pivot from risk and compliance to spearheading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness initiatives at Ernst & Young for the Asia Pacific Financial Services sector. Her personal story, one marked by overcoming a health challenge, has fueled her to advocate passionately for workplace wellbeing, setting th...

Welcome to a new season of Living Marketing, the podcast where we chat with business leaders about their life lessons and experience! Today, we're joined by Janet Yuen, CEO of Hung's Food Group (HFG), who has masterfully blended tenacity and innovation to steer one of Hong Kong's top F&B companies through times of challenge. HFG has built an extensive food and beverage empire, directly operating more than 600 outlets across China and Hong Kong under its Yoshinoya, Dairy Queen, Maria’...

As global marketing director for Plaza Premium, among the world's largest operators of luxury airport lounges globally, Janis is no stranger to the trials and triumphs of a second year being battered by a history-making pandemic. In spite of all that I'm most impressed by her ability to maintain a work/life model that balances health and happiness with the demands of work, home and family. How does she stay centered? What are her regrets? What does the future hold? All this and more, in my ch...

Before she joined Archetype as deputy managing director, Liz was editorial director for LUXE City Guides for five years. I'm a huge fan of LUXE, one of what their founder Grant called "Luxe Lovelies", so it was a fascinating conversation about where LUXE is today, and how shifting patterns of travel information consumption has impacted their ability to grow over the past decade. As usual, Living Marketing is more about "living" than "marketing", so it was a pleasure to hear Liz recount her li...

As head of Corporate Communications for AQUMON, an Asia-based investment platform and roboadvisor, Caroline enjoys an exciting role at the intersection of fintech and consumer marketing. Her path to FSI is anything but typical though, only moving into the finance field after six years in the fashion industry dividing her time between Hong Kong, Milan and Beijing. In fact, Caroline's personal journey is a case study in experimentation. Her first major was Egyptian Archeology, then Law, before ...

As Director of Membership for Hong Kong's hottest new private members club, Carlyle & Co, Kimberly has waited a long time for the club to open its doors because of the pandemic. Personally, she's also navigated a journey without a script to follow, as a biracial American kid growing up in Hong Kong who had to learn Chinese at the age of nine. Walking out of the family business into the publishing business, she spent seven years at lifestyle magazine HK Tatler, before she moved on to becom...