Three new creative hires at Grey Malaysia

Grey KL recently hired three award-winning creatives, Nadia McDonald as copywriter, Richard Chong as senior art director and Chong Khong Lum as art director. Reporting directly to David Sin, group creative director, the new additions to the team will be working for clients such as Maybank, The Curve, Sara Lee, GlaxoSmithKline, LG Mobile and Tiger Beer.

McDonald started her career at FCB and then moved to JWT where shespent three years. Her recent achievements include winning the CannesYoutube Young Lions 2009 challenge. Richard Chong was previously seniorart director for Y&R and JWT and is a winner at AdFest, One Show,Cannes Lions, London International Advertising Awards and World PressAwards. Chong Khong Lum previously worked with JWT and Publicis and haswon a silver at Clio, silver One Show award and a bronze Cannes Lions.

“It’s a known fact that awards are seen to be a benchmark to measure anagency’s capabilities in the industry. It definitely makes you standout from others even though we’re all creative and produce effectivework for our clients every year. To build a good creative reputation,we must bring in the right talent in order to consistently deliverfamous and effective work.” David Sin, Grey Group KL’s group creativedirector, said.