ASIA-PACIFIC – SINGAPORE, NOVEMBER 2010 – JWT digital agency XM-Singapore has assembled a new management team, elevating Gerard Lim (pictured) to general manager and Vince Lui to director for Marketing Technology following the recent announcement of Valerie Cheng’s appointment as ECD of XM and JWT Singapore and XM-Singapore Managing Director Taru Jain’s departure in early 2011. The appointments of Lim and Lui are effective immediately.
"I have had the honor of working for XM through a period of positive change where we have grown in size, staff strength and reputation," said Jain. "Right now it’s time for me to move on and pursue fresher challenges."
"The XM family thanks Taru for his contributions and wishes him all the best for the future," said Paul Soon, regional director, XM-Asia.
In Gerard Lim’s three years in XM, he has been heavily involved in developing large-scale marketing and technology platform solutions for clients. Lim was previously general manager for Leo Burnett Singapore and managing director at Ogilvy & Mather Singapore. His career has seen him take many MNC clients to win global awards from Echoes to Cannes Lions.
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Vince Lui has more than 12 years of digital consulting & platform implementation experience, nine of which were in XM. Prior to joining XM, he worked at Ion Global as Senior Associate, Technology, managing and implementing enterprise content management systems as well as developing applications on various platforms.