Kancil Awards

Flo Heiss
Dare, London

Bavarian born Flo Heiss is Creative Partner at multi award winning digital agency Dare in London where he has overseen work for Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Sony, ITV and Barclays.

Dare was voted Campaign’s agency of the year 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. Campaign magazine listed Flo as number 5 of the top 10 Creative Directors in London.

Flo studied graphic design in Augsburg, Germany, and at the Institute of Art in Urbino, Italy. A further two years spent at the Royal College of Art led to an M.A. in graphic design. In 1996 Flo joined Scholz and Volkmer and from here moved on to Razorfish in 1999.

Flo joined Dare in October 2000 and was promoted to creative director in June 2003 and to Creative Partner in 2005.

Flo blogs on floheiss.com

Iain Tait
Poke, London

Iain has been working in the online space since the mid nineties. After graduating from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Psychology (and Information Systems) he built websites for many of the Edinburgh Festivals, the Arts Festival, the Science Festival and the Book Festival. But before he had time get involved with the Puppet Festival he moved to London (the rumour was that they had a better version of the Internet down south).

At an unpronounceable agency called Syzygy he worked on projects for The Royal Opera House, Boots, Wilkinson Sword and Siemens. From Syzygy he moved to become the Director of Product Development for First Tuesday, a networking organisation connecting entrepreneurs to VCs. After playing a supporting role in causing the .com boom he realised he missed the creative opportunities of agency life. So he moved to Oven Digital. Which went bust.

After a short period of running an ahead-of-it's-time (i.e. irrelevant in the marketplace) startup focussing on hybridised entertainment properties, it once again dawned that what Iain really likes is solving problems for brands using internet stuff.

So, along with 5 other homeless digital veterans he started Poke. Poke is a creative agency that focuses on the digital space.

As well as working with clients like Orange, WWF, American Express, Zopa and Yahoo! Iain writes a blog at crackunit.com and gets involved with a bunch of industry things

As a winner of some awards he's ended up being a judge for D&AD, OneShow, Art Directors Club of New York, The Clios and Creative Circle. He's also especially proud to be a member of IADAS. These experiences have left him with a brain full of other people's great work and a nagging sense of inadequacy.

And finally, he absolutely hates writing about himself in the third person, it makes him feel very odd.

Sean Lam
Kinetic, Singapore (Interactive)

Co-founder of one of Asia's foremost interactive agencies, Sean is one unassuming guy who truly believes in “less said, more done”. True to style, he's letting his works speak for him here, and they're saying:

"Consistently award-winning": In the 9 years since Kinetic's inception, Sean has been winning awards, every year. These include the requisite Golds and Silvers from international award shows – One Show Interactive, Clio Awards, D&AD, New York Festival, Communication Arts, Cannes Lions, Art Directors Club, Young Guns, FWA(Favourite Website Awards), Webby Awards, Asia Pacific AdFest, Asia Interactive Awards and the Singapore Creative Circle Awards.

"Industry figure": As a testament to the industry's recognition of his stature, Sean has also been asked to judge at numerous international award shows. These include D&AD, One Show Interactive, New York Festival, Clio Awards, YoungGuns, The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) Site Of The Year Jury , Asia Interactive Awards, Kancils, Singapore Design Award, The Crowbar and Singapore Creative Circle Award.

"Client-oriented": Beyond winning awards, Sean is also instrumental in building and maintaining Kinetic's accounts. Their client portfolio includes established brands such as Nokia, Dockers, Nike, Citibank, Lotus Cars, Yoshinoya and Zoukclub.

Bio
In 1986, Graham graduated with a BSc Honours Degree in Chemistry from Edinburgh University. This proved a surprisingly good preparation for his first job in advertising - copywriter for a Dutch business-to-business agency specialising in the chemicals industry. Realising that doing ads for consumers was a bit more fun than writing for chemical engineers, Graham joined a mainstream Dutch agency that did both advertising and direct marketing.

In 1991, Graham moved to Singapore, joining O&M Direct as a copywriter.  Four years later, he moved “above-the-line” with O&M. Approximately 3 years Graham had progressed to Senior Writer.  He then advanced to Creative Director, joining Leo Burnett. Followed by TBWA Singapore, as Executive Creative Director.

Graham joined Ogilvy Interactive in July 2000 as Regional Creative Director, Asia Pacific, to oversee the build up of the regional network: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Jakarta, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.In 2003, Graham joined Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore. His role: strengthen the agency’s through-the-line abilities. In 2005 Graham joined BBH Japan. His brief was similar: strengthen the agency’s creative offering across all media.

On January 15th 2007, Graham joined TBWA/Tequila as Executive Creative Director, Singapore and “Creative Integrator” for Asia.

Recent Achievements
Graham’s first major achievement at the agency was winning the global Singapore Airlines account, which was awarded in his first 6 months in the job. This was followed soon after by another major account world: Resorts World Singapore.

Awards
Under Graham’s stewardship, the agency’s creative product has dramatically improved, after 3 years or more without “metal” at any of the major festivals.
This year the agency has won at all the important international shows, including the Media “Spikes” and One Show (where it was the top performing Singapore agency at both shows), plus Clio, D&AD and Cannes. The agency also won its first Gold Effie.

Previous Highiights
Graham’s ambient, print and TV work has been awarded at shows such as: Asia-Pacific Adfest, Media “Spikes”, The One Show, Clio, Cannes, D&AD and Communication Arts. He has won a cross-section of all the major DM awards: Caples, Echos and the Asian Direct Marketing awards (where he has won Best of Show twice). Graham’s interactive work has also been awarded at shows such as the One Show Interactive, Cannes Cyberlions, Clio Interactive and Communication Arts.

As such, he is the one of the few creatives to have achieved international recognition across all media.

Liew San Yen
IF / Interactive, Malaysia

Sanyen, who prefers to be referred to as a media architect, specializes in multimedia design and digital installation. He is the co-founder and Interactive Creative Director of IF Interactive, an interactive design studio founded in 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In this capacity, Sanyen has built for himself countless commendable portfolios. Some of his works are commercial projects such as online game campaigns for Coca-Cola, ESPN; interactive installations / events for KENT, Dunhill; branding websites for Zouk Club, Discovery Asia, Heineken Music, ETC; as well as independent research projects that explore new communicative methods in the fusion of harmonious intermarriage between interactivity and design, such as the ‘Shifting Nature’ and ‘Interfacing Gesture’.

With extensive experience and great passion for design, Sanyen has also been invited to speak and exhibit in local and international design conferences in Stuttgart, Helsinki, Singapore, Melbourne and New Zealand; as well as lecture in design colleges and universities in Malaysia.

Last but not least, with his creative leadership, IF Interactive has successfully won numerous awards in DMAM (Direct Marketing Association Malaysia), MC2 (Malaysia’s Creative Circle), Kancil Awards Malaysia, One Show Interactive, New York Festival and Webby Award, all in its first appearance.

John Dranger
Farfar, Sweden.

Farfar has a long running reputation for creating new and fresh digital campaigns and ranked by the Gunn report as one of the world's leading digital agencies. The work has resulted in numerous international awards for clients such as Nokia, Absolut, Diesel and Visit Sweden.

With a mixed background containing both computer science, and advertising at Parson's,Jon has been involved in various aspects of interactive marketing since 1995. Which is when he created his fist campaign site for Carlsberg - and, no, that one did not merit any awards, except perhaps the "first campaign site in Sweden" award.

Before joining Farfar as a partner in 2000, Jon partnered a Stockholm advertising shop, designed and developed some media web sites, and tinkered with rocket science.