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Adam joined BBH’s graduate scheme in 2000 after leaving Cambridge. His early career was spent working on Audi, ITV and Vodafone – for whom Adam was Global Business Director.

Adam became Managing Director of BBH in 2016 and ran the London Office - leading the Absolut, Deloitte and Google relationships as well as all business development activity. He also set up and led the Agency's latest specialism, BBH Health.

Adam is now Global Chief Marketing Officer and is in charge of the BBH brand, Business Development and Innovation across all seven BBH offices globally. Based in London, Adam also serves as Creative Practice Lead for all Publicis agencies on Samsung globally.

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Alex started his career at BBH where he worked for 14 years creating award-winning work for Levi's, Axe, Audi & Barnardo's to name a few.

In 2022 he returned to his alma mater as Global & London Chief Creative Officer. Prior to that he was CCO at AMV BBDO where for 3 consecutive years he was ranked the No.1 CCO in the UK by WARC. He's also been ranked the No.1 Creative Director in the world at Cannes Lions. Under his leadership AMV won ten Cannes Grand Prixs (including Titanium & Glass), three D&AD Black Pencils and in 2021 achieved an industry first by winning 'The Treble': Global Agency of the Year at Cannes, D&AD and the One Show. In addition, AMV won over 30 Agency of the Year awards at regional and international shows.

In his spare time he likes to don lycra and cycle up mountains at an embarrassingly slow pace.

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A multi-lingual Armenian-Canadian from Montreal, Arto Hampartsoumian has spent the last 25 years in the advertising industry in Asia.

Prior to joining BBH to spearhead its China hub, Arto was Managing Director at Wieden+Kennedy in Japan from 2001 where he helped found and drove the successful Record Label for the Agency (WKTokyoLab) in 2002. Arto started his career with O&M in Hong Kong, and included stints in Singapore and Hong Kong for BBDO where he was responsible for running accounts such as FedEx, ICI, Pepsi, Visa, and Allianz across 11 countries in Asia.

Arto joined BBH in October 2005 and has led key accounts past and present, including Google, TCCC, Samsung, LG, Harbin, Martell and Johnnie Walker.

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Karen joined BBH after 14 years in Australia’s ad industry. She was Managing Director of Host Sydney. Prior to Host, Karen worked at BMF (B&T’s Australian Agency of the Decade) as a key member of its Account Management team.

Karen joined BBH London in April 2016 as Managing Partner, and has led Tesco business to 20 consecutive quarters of growth. In March 2018, Karen was promoted to Managing Director, overseeing the running of 60 Kingly Street, as well as continuing to lead the Tesco & Barclays businesses, amongst others. Karen was promoted to CEO in June 2020.

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Christine was part of the founding team of BBH Asia Pacific, the first offshore office in Singapore as Media Director and General Manager where she handled regional business for clients including Levi’s, Johnnie Walker, Unilever, Coca-Cola and TNT China.

She relocated to Shanghai to set up BBH China in 2005, working with brands such as Unilever (Axe), Perfetti Van Melle (Alpenliebe, Mentos), Sephora, Audi, Tencent and OPPO.

Christine was awarded the Top Ten entrepreneur Award by the government backed Harmonious Awards in China resulting in being the first Advertising Executive to be featured on a Chinese stamp. Most recently, she was named one of the Women to Watch in China by Ad Age International.

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Carla draws on her background in strategy, integration and leadership to incorporate transformative thinking in all aspects of Groupe agency operations and across all four solution hubs.

She cut her teeth in the business working on iconic brands like Apple, Nissan and PepsiCo, and defined strategies for early tech brands and digitally-led experiences.

Carla has helped merge the classic skills of account planning, media arts and digital strategy to develop a truly integrated approach to help clients' businesses.

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Sid started his career in banking but made the switch to advertising a decade ago when he got the opportunity to work on the biggest brands in the world at BBH Singapore.

He takes pride in building high performance teams for his clients and is on a mission to prove that creatively excellent work is also often the most commercially effective.

Sid was promoted to Managing Director in 2021 and continues to lead key client businesses for the agency.

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Erica joined BBH USA from Publicis NY. As Publicis NY's CCO, she leveraged the power of media, strategy, experience, data and CRM to deliver some of the most creative and transformative work in the industry.

Most recently, she helped relaunch 10 of J.M Smucker’s largest brands, including Jif, Folgers, Milkbone and Café Bustelo. She’s also been instrumental in leading the ongoing rollout of Citibank’s fully integrated global platform and Planet Fitness’s new brand positioning.

Erica's uniquely integrated approach earned her recognition as one of the Top 26 Agency Leaders to Watch by Adweek and 40 over 40 by Campaign.

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Sascha is the Chief Creative Officer of BBH Singapore since 2019. Having started his career in the film industry he brings a wealth of knowledge on how to create compelling narratives for brands. Over 14 years in the agency world led to numerous viral campaigns (which used to be a good thing).

His work became a hot topic at both the United Nations (good thing) and the Iranian Censorship Board (not so good thing) and even includes a product Guy Kawasaki urged everyone to buy. His bio is a continuous WIP.