Core Team

Vicky M. Wong, President & CEO

Vicky leads our new business development, strategic planning and the overall operations of the agency. She has over 20 years of experience in advertising account management and consumer marketing. Before joining DAE, Vicky worked for Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong and was in charge of many major international accounts including American Express and Philips.

Vicky’s corporate experience saw her running consumer marketing at a regional satellite broadcast company in Malaysia.

A native of Hong Kong, Vicky is a graduate of The Baptist University in Hong Kong.

Greg Chew, Co-founder, Director of Community Relations

Recently reappointed by City of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as San Francisco Film Commissioner until 2011, Greg serves on numerous business, cultural, art and humanitarian organizations in the Asian American communities. With close to two decades serving at ‘traditional’ mainstream advertising firms like Foote, Cone & Belding, he was one of the original creative team that created the highly successful ‘California Dancing Raisins’ campaign.

In 1990 Greg co-founded DAE with the belief that “businesses winning the hearts and minds of the new America will be rewarded."

Commissioner Chew has taught Advertising, Marketing, Art Direction and Design courses for 20 years at Academy of Art University, U.C. Berkeley Extension and San Jose State University.

He also is founding member of The Asian American Advertising Federation.(3AF's).

Fan Chew, Vice President

Fan Chew brings over 13 years of advertising & marketing experience to DAE. As a Vice President, she is tasked with providing brand management
and strategic leadership to prominent clients of
the agency.

Prior to moving to the United States, Fan held senior management positions at multi-national agencies across Asia including Grey Worldwide (Malaysia and Thailand), J.Walter Thompson (Malaysia) and Bates Asia (Hong Kong). She thrives on managing the regional businesses of blue chip clients like Procter & Gamble, HSBC, Shell and Dannon across markets such as Vietnam, India, Philippines, Indonesia, China and Singapore, to name a few.

Fan earned her Bachelor of Commerce Degree from The University of Western Australia and speaks three languages fluently.

Sunny Teo, Executive Creative Director

Sunny started his advertising career at age three when his mom, a fashion designer, placed him under her worktable and gave him a pencil and a sketchpad. From there, he leveraged his love for the visual arts into more than 20 years of award winning multi-national agency experience, in Singapore, Australia, and the U.S.
 
Through the years at Saatchi, FCB, JWT, Lintas, Anderson & Lembke, Doremus and McCann MRM, Sunny has produced breakthrough creative work for global brands like Microsoft, Roche, Creative Labs, Compaq, HP, Hitachi, Autodesk, Credit Suisse, and Citibank.
 
Sunny believes firmly that great creativity drives great marketplace results, and brings to DAE his mission to create for clients fresh perspectives that build brands.

Lilian Lee , Account Director

Lilian has over 10 years of experience in the client services industry across the U.S. and Asia. Lilian has worked with leading traditional and digital , interactive advertising agencies in New York City such as DDB, OMD, Hall and Partners and Critical Mass. She has taken on leadership roles within Account Service and Strategic Planning teams working on numerous accounts including Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Mercedes-Benz, Grey Goose Vodka, Ritz-Carlton, Blackberry and Mitsubishi.

Prior to her marketing and communications career, Lilian worked for five years as a financial advisory consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. Born in the U.S., Lilian has traveled to extensively throughout Asia and has resided in Hong Kong and Shanghai for over six years. Lilian brings to DAE strategic planning experience and an understanding of Asian American consumers across segments and generations. Lilian’s interests lie in international relations and art history.

Lilian earned her B.A. in Finance from UT Austin and her M.S. in Integrated Marketing from Northwestern University. Lilian is a graduate of the two-year Omnicom Group Rotation Program based in New York City.

Ron Lagman , Media Manager

Ron brings over 10 years in the media field to the
DAE management team. His general market media experience encompasses media planning and and media buying in both the traditional and online advertising spheres. While at leading advertising agencies Starcom/Publicis & Hal Riney and
Young & Rubicam/Wunderman, Ron serviced major accounts including Sprint, The North Face, Univision and Invisalign.

Ron’s is experienced in the overall management and implementation of multi-million dollar media campaigns from start to finish . He is also knowledgeable in an array of media tools and methodologies. Previously, Ron also worked with TV celebrity chef, Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook where he oversaw marketing programs and office administration.

A second generation Filipino-American and native of the Bay Area, Ron earned his B.S. in Marketing from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco.