Merlee Jayme leaves Dentsu Worldwide | Promoting

Merlee Jayme, Dentsu’s Asia-Pacific chief inventive officer and one of many area’s most distinguished inventive advocates has introduced she’s leaving the company. 

“I’m a results-driven particular person. Each time I really feel I’ve achieved one thing or have achieved a purpose, my intestine tells me to maneuver on,” Jaymee mentioned.

Jayme joined Dentsu again in 2015 when Dentsu Aegis Community acquired a majority stake within the Manila-based company she co-founded in 2005 with Alex Syfu to type Dentsu Jayme Syfu. In 2020, Jayme moved to Singapore to grow to be world co-president of the newly-formed DentsuMcGarrybowen inventive ‘superagency’ alongside Jon Dupuis in New York. 

 A 12 months later, Jayme’s position shifted to APAC chief inventive officer for Dentsu Worldwide, accountable for inventive excellence throughout a number of Dentsu businesses within the area together with Dentsumcgarrybowen, Isobar, Dentsu One, Webchutney and Taproot Dentsu.

Trying again, Jayme expressed gratitude to Dentsu for serving to her obtain many targets collectively together with upgraded abilities and capabilities at her company, utilizing knowledge and know-how to drive innovation and belonging to a various and inclusive neighborhood that celebrates cultural variations. 

“Throughout these years at Dentsu, balancing between constructing a enterprise and creating life-changing work was powerful. However we managed to remain centered, appeal to nice folks and purchasers plus extra importantly, create a repute for work that made an enormous distinction in folks’s lives and the world,” she mentioned. 

Identified for award-winning work from her personal company, Jayme accepted Cannes Lions regional community of the 12 months award for 2021 amongst many different business accolades together with regional community titles at Spikes and Adstars in 2021 and Adfest in 2022.

Fiercely defending her longstanding title of ‘chairmom’, Jayme has been a powerful business advocate for the development of girls and works carefully with girls’s advocacy group Gabriela within the Philippines, together with its efforts to face as much as sexual harrassment within the business and defend girls who come ahead with allegations. Earlier this month, she obtained a commendation as Girls’s Development Champion at Marketing campaign’s Girls Main Change Awards.