SINGAPORE — In an investment in talent, MediaMonks’ Singapore has hired Joao Flores as ECD in SEA, Korea and Japan, supporting the organic growth of its business across the Asia Pacific region. Flores is based in Singapore.
Flores’ responsibilities are to develop creative partnerships with MediaMonks’ clients to strengthen disruptive positioning; to influence teams across the region with a growth mindset and to ultimately, elevate and the standards for creativity in the region.
Flores started his journey more than 16 years ago across the big networks in Portugal, guiding him into the Creative Leadership at Cheil Iberia, not only transforming his perspective about imaginative narratives and experiences, but also opening his world for a new age of creativity.
He was then responsible to lead FCB’s creative vision in the Middle East, which guided him into Dentsu in Singapore, where he gained recognition while growing the business, being promoted to Chief Creative Officer.
“Joao is known for his creative leadership and his disruptive creative process, as well as vision for integrated ideas which positively impacts people, businesses and culture. We share the passion for creative excellence, and I’m excited to start working with Joao. Together with the rest of the MediaMonks team, we are perfectly set up to scale to new heights,” Joris Knetsch, Managing Director, MediaMonks Singapore.
“We are living in a new age for creativity, the pioneers of that mindset are MediaMonks and S4 Capital. How to structure creative teams at scale in this new era? How to define a new creative identity elevating data and tech? And what does that mean for people, for the ones living those experiences? The passion for craft, connected ecosystems and the commitment to create product ideas with a tangible positive impact, that’s the Monks way, that’s my why, and what made this opportunity so appealing to me,” said Flores.
