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MenuMulti-Lingual Custom Publishing in Asia-Pacific
Created 12 years ago in Sales & Marketing / Publishing
In 1996, I founded a communications agency providing comprehensive local language (we published in around 10 languages) professional print and Web publishing services to organizations focused on the Greater China and Asia-Pacific markets.
My first clients were Microsoft (I published the Hong Kong edition of Microsoft Magazine) and Hongkong Telecom (now PCCW); other clients included ABN AMRO, American Express, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Tourist Board, Marriott Group, Reuters and Walt Disney Company.
I eventually opened a Shanghai office, becoming the first company in the industry to have a mainland China office (and business license!), and during the first 12 months of operation there, landed 12 new clients in a market in which our company and our industry were unknown.
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Roberto De Vido
Kanagawa, Japan
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Communications consultant with over 20 years experience in Asia (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kyoto, Tokyo), founding and managing three independent market-leading communications agencies, specializing separately in high-tech/telecoms public relations, local language custom publishing (one of the first independent publishing agencies to obtain a license to do business in mainland China), and Asia-Pacific-focused public affairs. Over the years have worked on a wide range of communications issues throughout the Asia-Pacific region for clients including Microsoft, adidas, Apple Computer, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Reuters, Sony Pictures, Toyota Motor Corporation, Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. Have broad experience developing and delivering communications on a wide range of platforms, integrating text and graphics to maximize impact; experience advising global organizations on communications and lobbying strategy; organizing events (e.g. film production workshops for heads of Chinese movie studios; community leaders forum focused on post-tsunami reconstruction in northern Japan); and developing graphical storytelling projects for relief/aid organizations (e.g. Medecins Sans Frontieres, Second Harvest Japan).