Text 100 announces South Asia promotions and new hires

Text 100 APAC has announced several senior promotions and new appointments within its South Asia consulting organisations. Text 100’s new management changes in Singapore, India and Malaysia reflect the agency’s continued success and growth across Asia as well Text 100’s leadership position in social media programmes.

“With these new management appointments and promotions, Text 100 will continue to innovate in the creation and delivery of social and traditional media programmes for our clients while providing exciting new experiences for our consultants,” said Rowan Benecke, Regional Consultancy Director, Text 100 APAC.

Joshy Matthews, previously Managing Consultant of Text 100 South India and an eight-year Text 100 veteran, has been promoted to Vice President & Managing Consultant of Vox PR, an independent subsidiary of Text 100 India. Effective February 1, Matthews will be responsible for the overall leadership, strategy and direction of Vox PR, which has offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. Vox has also appointed four new account team members to its Delhi and Bangalore offices.

Suchita Ullal will take over as Managing Consultant of both Text 100 Bangalore and Chennai. A senior practitioner with more than 16 years experience in PR and communications, Ullal joined Text 100 on January 11, 2010, from Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, where she was their Bangalore Branch Director.

Marc Ha has been promoted to ASEAN Director effective February 1, after a successful tenure as Managing Consultant of Text 100 Singapore. Marc will also assume APAC leadership of Lenovo, the agency’s largest account within the region. Former ASEAN Director Anne Costello will focus on Text 100’s new business and marketing activities across the region.

Jeremy Seow joins Text 100 Singapore from Yahoo, where he was most recently South East Asia Communications Manager. As Senior Account Manager, Seow will lead several key accounts based in Singapore for the agency. He joined Text 100 on January 11. Marie Ong also joins the Singapore team as a Senior Account Manager.

David Lian, based in the agency’s Kuala Lumpur office, has also been promoted to Social Media Strategist, ASEAN. He will focus on developing social media and digital strategies and programmes for new and existing clients across ASEAN. To support this promotion, a new Account Director will be joining the Kuala Lumpur team as well as two further junior hires taking the office to 18 consultants.

Text 100 is a global public relations consultancy with a staff of 500 people and a direct presence in 30 cities worldwide. The agency’s client roster includes IBM, Cisco, Fujifilm, Lenovo, SanDisk, Skype and PayPal.