Advisory Board

Barney Loehnis joined Ogilvy in February 2010 to head up OgivlyOne’s digital offering across Asia Pacific and to help integrate digital services seamlessly across the Ogilvy Group. Barney joined from Isobar where he built and lead Aegis’s digital network across APAC, culminating in 2009 when Carat / Isobar won Media Asia Pacific “Agency of the Year”.

Prior to coming to Asia four years ago Barney ran Warner Bros’ Online division across EMEA and managed the commercial development as well as marketing strategies for all WB releases from 2001-2005; prior to that he developed digital services and eCommerce for the UK’s largest book, music and DVD retailer and in 2000 he helped launch Citikey ? a pioneering mobile city guide service - which delivered location based content to phones and PDA’s in 17 cities across Europe.

On leaving school Barney walked 6,000kms from Istanbul back to London, in 1989. He went on to read Philosophy at Bristol University. In 1993 Barney then embarked on a journey walking 9,000kms across China, and was the first person to retrace Mao’s Long March on foot. Barney Loehnis joined Ogilvy in February 2010 to head up OgivlyOne’s digital offering across Asia Pacific and to help integrate digital services seamlessly across the Ogilvy Group.

Barney joined from Isobar where he built and lead Aegis’s digital network across APAC, culminating in 2009 when Carat / Isobar won Media Asia Pacific “Agency of the Year”.

Colin co-founded i-POP and is a renowned mobile media expert, industry evangelist and conference speaker having spoken at more than 150 conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. In 2011 he was elected as Chair for MEF Asia; part of a global mobile industry association. He has had two peer reviewed White Papers on mobile media integration published for the Broadcast Asia conference in Singapore.

At i-POP, Colin has held the Business Development, Product, Marketing, Sales and Operations portfolios; he also focused upon corporate matters and innovation strategy – as well as servicing its long-standing clients such as ESPN STAR Sports and FremantleMedia. Colin also brought to commercial reality the latest interactive solutions, such as Augmented Reality and Social Media. i-POP has recently been acquired by listed company InternetQ [LSE:INTQ] and as such he is forging ahead within the fast-changing Mobile Value Added services and mobile marketing domains, including Social Commerce, mCommerce & Super Promos

Sean joined Prudential Corporation Asia in 2009 and champions innovation and the development of integrated marketing solutions supporting both Prudential's Life (12 markets) and Asset Management (10 markets) businesses across Asia. Recently, he created Cha-Ching—an animated, musical series airing on Cartoon Network to help parents develop money smart kids.

Prior to joining Prudential, he was Regional General Manager (American Express) at Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific and Managing Director, OgilvyOne Hong Kong. His team grew into the largest integrated marketing agency in Hong Kong (awarded Agency of the Year honors three years consecutively) and produced high impact campaigns for clients including American Express, BlackRock, The Economist, The Venetian Macao, Hong Kong Disneyland and SmarTone-Vodafone.

He has held several marketing positions with Sprint Communications and started his marketing career at Hallmark Cards, Inc. A former naval officer, Sean served aboard two ships during his five years of service.

Sean is active in the Asian marketing community having served as the Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association Asia Pacific (2009-2010) and of the Hong Kong 4As Interactive and Direct Committee (2001-2008). A noted industry speaker, he has been a guest lecturer at a number of Hong Kong universities.

Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Sean earned a MBA from the Thunderbird Global School of Business and BS from the United States Naval Academy. He enjoys hiking Hong Kong’s trails with his wife and two children.