HELLO! MY NAME IS CHA FAN
HELLO! MY NAME IS CHA FAN
SOME BACKGROUND ABOUT ME:
I was born and raised up in Hong Kong. I have always been adventurous and ambitious in my career. Because of having a movie dream, I began my career as a Screenplay Writer at Golden Harvest Movie Ltd. Then I realised there was another interesting form of storytelling – advertising. Until now, I have a breadth of experience since working for different type and culture of agencies.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Sex: Male
Marriage Status: Married
Nationality: Chinese
Place of Birth: Hong Kong
Education: University Graduate
Majors: Communication Studies - Film and Content Production
MY STRENGTH:
BIG BRAND BUILDER - experienced in designing and delivering big, global brand equity and strategies that make brands stand out from this ever-changing market environment.
CONTENT CHEF - my big interest in developing contents that is fresh and original enough to make brand culturally relevant so as to turn brand users to brand lovers.
GAME LEADER - a back-boned team leader who always lead teammates by strong self belief and self examples. A leader who has instinct to lead team to fulfil thoughtful creation, curation and delivery of precise content in specific platforms with right efforts.
TOUGH PLAYER - a trusted player who lead the team to go through end-to-end communication process and enable cohesively delivery of materials.
PROVEN RECORDS:
NIKE
Nike Asia Game - Helped Nike to create original brand assets that truly resonated to China teenagers by all-rounded communications.
Nike Greatness - Helped Nike Global to drive a “24 hours real time” social cam- paign to create unprecedented social buzz that is culturally relevant to china teenagers during Olympics.
NEW BALANCE
The Shape of my Color - Revamped New Balance brand equity from an old fash- ioned brand image to a modern and inspiring brand icon among china teenagers.
COCA COLA
Chok Chok Chok - Successfully turned Coca Cola brand to a next level by tapping into mobile app trend, generating buzz and brand equities that resonated to teenagers in Hong Kong.
DIANPING.COM
APPMIXER - Successfully helped dianping.com to build a young image by launching an APPMIXER idea to generate curiosity of the brand for teenagers in a very short period of time and tight budget.
MY WORKING JOURNEY:
Group Creative Director
Company: 180.ai Beijing
Period: Nov 2022 – April 2024
Region: Beijing
Key Clients: JingDong
Group Creative Director
Company: W Shanghai
Period: Feb 2021 – Nov 2022
Region: Shanghai
Key Clients: Fashion and Sports Brands, Internet clients, Automobile, Leading 12 people including planning, copywriting, art, account people.
Executive Creative Director
Company: 180 Shenzhen
Period: Mar 2019 – Sept 2020
Year: 1 year and a half
Region: Shenzhen
Key Clients: Building planning and creative team from scratch.
Leading 14 people including planning, copywriting, art, account people.
Creative Director
Company: W Shanghai
Period: Jan 2017 – Mar 2019
Year: 2 year
Region: Shanghai
Key Clients: Nike,New Balance, dianping.com, Timberland
Leading 20 people including planning, copywriting, illustrator, digital
Regional Creative Director
Company: Redfuse Hong Kong
Period: Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Year: 2 years
Region: Hong Kong
Client: Colgate & Palmolive
Leading 9 people including planning, copywriting, 3D, digital
Executive Creative Director
Company: Y&R Beijing
Period: Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Year: 1 year 2 months
Region: China, Beijing
Clients: QiaoDan Sports, X-step Sports, Dell, China Telecom
Build the whole creative department from scratch and lead a creative team of 14 people (planning, copywriting, arts & 3D, digital, social)
Group Creative Director
Company: BBDO Beijing
Period: Jun 2012 - Aug 2014
Year: 2 years 2 months
Region: China, Beijing
Client: Mengniu, Mars Food
Leading 12 people's creative team (copy, arts and digital)
Group Creative Director
Company: McCann & Spencer
Period: May 2011 – Jun 2012 Year: 1 year 3 months
Region: Hong Kong
Client: Coca Cola
Leading 7-people’s creative team (copywriting, art, digital)
Creative Group Head
Company: Wieden & Kennedy Shanghai
Period: May 2007 - May 2011
Year: 4 years and 1 month
Region: China, Shanghai
Client Served: Nike, Cnoverse, Coca-Cola, IShare
Writer
Company: Hong Kong Ogilvy / J. Walter Thompson / Leo Burnett
Period: September 2003 - August 2007
Year: 4 years
Region: Hong Kong
Screenplay Writer
Company: Golden Harvest Film Company
Period: March 1998 - Sept 2000
Year: 2 years and 3 months
Region: Hong Kong
Major Works:
Storm on the Streets
MY EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Baptist University of Hong Kong
Degree: Bachelor of Social Science
Major: Film & TV Production - Communication
Period: 1996 – 1999
MY PORTFOLIOS LINKS:
Case-Study Videos:
http://i.youku.com/i/UMTMwNjU4NzIxNg==/videos?spm=a2hzp.8253876.0.0
MAJOR AWARDS:
2022 NIO, The Road, ADC Award, Film Craft, Merit Award
2022 IM, I Am What I Am, ADC Award, Film Craft, Merit Award
2014 Coca Cola China - Go Goal Can, Best Use of Mobile Devices, Silver, Kam Fan Award
2014 Coca Cola China - Go Goal Can, Bronze, Best Use of Screens
2014 Coca Cola China - Go Goal Can, Bronze, Use of Mobile Marketing
2014 Coca Cola China - Go Goal Can, Merit, Cyber Mobile (mobile Application)
2014 Coca Cola China - Go Goal Can, Merit, Best Use of Branded Content and Sponsorship
2011 Nike Asia Game – Your Game is Your Voice, Ambient Media, Bronze, Cannes Award.
2009 Mark Six Lotteries – Numbers Add Up, Design, Bronze,One Show Award.
2009 Mark Six Lotteries – Numbers Add Up, Print Campaign, Inbook, D&AD.
2008 Mark Six Lottery – Mansion/ Diamond/ Rolls Royce, Print Campaign,Bronze, Clio Award.
2008 Mark Six Lotteries – Mansion, Entertainment, Poster, Silver, Clio Award.
2008 Marl Six Lotteries – Mansion/ Diamond/ Rolls Royce, Poster Campaign, Bronze, Adfest Award.
2008 DHL – Gridlock, Ambient Media Lion, Bronze, Cannes Award.
2008 DHL – Gridlock, Innovative Use of Ad, Single, Merit,One Show Award.
REFERENCE PEOPLE TO GET KNOW MORE ABOUT ME:
Tan Shen Guan
Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Redfuse Hong Kong ShenGuan.Tan@redfuse.com
Gavin Simpson
Chef Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia Gavin.simpson@ogilvy.com
李三水
Founder of W Shanghai w@wearewer.com
Email
chafantsanggo@gmail.com
Mobile
(86) 13918052902
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