Hello, I'm Simon Kemp, a marketing strategist specialising in building brands for the connected age. My book – Social Brands: The Future of Marketing – has been read more than 150,000 times, and my marketing guides and reports have been read nearly seven million times. By day, I run Kepios, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps brands to identify their highest-value opportunities and challenges, and address them with strategies for enduring success. I'm also Regional Managing Partner for We Are Social in Asia, where I help clients to build 'brands worth talking about'. I was recently recognised in Campaign Magazine's '40 under 40'​, and I'm regularly invited by television stations such as Bloomberg TV and Channel NewsAsia to offer insight and opinion on marketing (you can watch some of the interviews below). I'm also a contributor to The Marketing Society, Social Media Today, and The Wall, and I speak regularly at conferences and corporate events all over the world. By night, I run the Singapore Whisky Society, bringing whisky lovers together for malt-related meet-ups, and #SataySocial, a street-food get-together that promises a new way to network. I'm also a music producer and DJ, and regularly record and release my own tracks and mixtapes. If you'd like to connect beyond LinkedIn, you'll find me as @eskimon across most of the social web.

Founder @ Kepios is a marketing consultancy that helps brands to understand their highest-value opportunities and challenges, and address them with strategies for enduring success. We offer three core services: Business Planning – The Doctor We identify your highest-value opportunities and challenges, and prescribe the best course of action. Brand Strategy – The Psychologist We work with you to define your brand's core pillars: its purpose, proposition, and positioning. Team Development – The Personal Trainer We help you to optimise your ways of working for the most efficient and effective delivery of your strategy. These services combine to inform an integrated, strategic approach that covers the entire marketing mix. We help clients all over the world from our base in Singapore. We're already helping a number of household-name brands and SMEs, and we've love to work with you too. If you'd like to know more, please visit kepios.com, or send us an email: info@kepios.com From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Regional Managing Partner, Asia @ We Are Social is a leading global social marketing agency that helps brands to listen to, understand, and engage in conversations across the internet. We work with clients from a variety of industries to: • build vibrant social communities that deliver on-going value to both audiences and brands; • identify key influencers, and build lasting relationships with them; • promote brand advocacy and positive word of mouth; and • understand the wider business and societal impacts of social media, and what these mean for organisations and brands. We have offices in Singapore, London, New York, Paris, Milan, Munich, San Francisco, Sydney, and São Paulo, and we’re already helping world-leading brands like Unilever, Nestlé, Diageo, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Lenovo, Tiger Beer, and Heinz. If you’d like to chat about us helping you too, then give us a call on +65 6423 1051, or drop us an email to sayhello@wearesocial.sg. You can also find out more at http://wearesocial.sg From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Head of Asia-Pacific, Contagious Insider Consulting @ Contagious is a global intelligence service helping companies achieve the top 1% of marketing creativity through our research platform, consultancy, quarterly magazine and live events. Culture and capabilities consultancy Contagious Insider delivers services that equip clients to create more contagious work. We’ve built an award-winning smart beer bottle with Heineken, launched the Mondelez Fly Garage innovation space and helped top brands and agencies – including Nike, Razorfish, Red Bull, MRM & Lidl, Google and J. Walter Thompson – to define and attain creative excellence. I work with the global Insider team to bring Contagious's suite of consulting products and services to brands around Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit http://insider.contagious.com/ From 2015 to Present (less than a year) SingaporeInterviews & Insights @ I've been invited to appear on television news channels around the world to discuss the impact of Social and Digital Media on marketing, business, and society as a whole. You can watch some of these interviews - on areas including the evolving role of mobile for brands, the role of social media in China and India, and how culture impacts our social behaviour - via the links below. From 2013 to Present (2 years) Guest Lecturer @ Hyper Island designs learning experiences that challenge companies and individuals to grow and stay competitive in an increasingly digitised world. Our range of immersive programs and courses equips you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead the change and begin a journey of lifelong learning. I help to design and run a variety of courses and programs for Hyper Island around Asia, including sessions for MA students, intensive Masterclasses, and client-specific workshops and training sessions. From May 2012 to Present (3 years 8 months) SingaporeMentor and Coach @ The Key Person of Influencer (KPI) Accelerator Program is a business incubator based on Daniel Priestley's bestselling book, 'Become a Key Person of Influence'. Twice a year, the KPI team selects around 50 small business owners who are great at what they do, have strong growth potential, and are driven to make a name for themselves in their industry. Each group is then mentored over 40 weeks by some of the world's most seasoned entrepreneurs in the areas of Pitching, Publishing, Productising, Profile building and Partnerships, with the goal of helping them become recognised leaders within their industry whilst simultaneously growing the asset value of their business. Learn more at http://www.keypersonofinfluence.com/kpi-method/ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Member of the Advisory Board, Social Committee @ The IAB Social Committee promotes the effective and efficient use of social media marketing as a driver of tangible and enduring brand value. We champion best practice on behalf of the industry by developing training sessions and resources, liaising with the media, and hosting a variety of networking events. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Contributor @ I write a regular blog column for The Marketing Society's 'Library' covering topics relating to social marketing and all things digital. The Marketing Society is a network of senior marketers that encourages its members to become bolder leaders, helping them to think differently about the challenges they face. Find out more at https://www.marketingsociety.com/ From 2013 to Present (2 years) Contributor @ I'm a featured blogger on Social Media Today, an independent, online community for professionals in PR, marketing, advertising, or any other discipline where a thorough understanding of social media is critical. Every day, Social Media Today provides insight and hosts lively debate about the tools, platforms, companies and personalities that are revolutionising the way people consume information. You can find my posts by clicking here: http://socialmediatoday.com/posts/published/user/118125 From 2012 to Present (3 years) Contributor @ I'm a featured blogger on Brand Republic's "The Wall", a digital blog that helps the marketing, media and communications industries to understand the effects of emerging technology and media change. From ecommerce and email, to search and social media, The Wall features expert commentators and analysis of digital developments. You can find my posts here: http://wallblog.co.uk/author/simonkemp-2/ From 2013 to Present (2 years) Advisory Board @ As part of the advisory board for Social Media Week in Singapore, I help to organise and promote the various activities that take place across SMWSG's events. From 2011 to Present (4 years) Singapore

Simon Kemp is skilled in: Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, Online Marketing, Digital Strategy, Social Media Strategy, Social Media Monitoring, Conversational Marketing, Word Of Mouth Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Advertising, Communications Strategy, Communications Planning, Digital Media