Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director, KVUR, Singapore
Uma Rudd Chia is the Executive Creative Director and Co-founder of KVUR, a boutique creative solutions agency that does brand, digital and marcom strategy and execution for brands including Hilton, the Ascott Group, DHL, Acuvue and Mercer.
For more than 20 years of experience, she has worked in companies such as Saatchi, Ogilvy, Havas, JWT, Weber Shandwick and McCann. Uma was a guest member of the jury at One Show, Spikes Asia, Cannes Young Lions, etc.
She has received a significant number of international awards, including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, New York Fest, and Spikes Asia.
She has spoken at over 19 countries to over 500,000 people over the past years at events organised by Forrester Global, Facebook, Google, She Loves Data, Pause Fest and South by Southwest and various governments of the world.
Uma is also the founder of The Female Idea, a platform she uses to advocate, mentor and champion female creative leaders in the creative sector. She has created her own award-winning phonics programme - Reading PANTS™ and has authored three best selling books.
Uma speaks 5 languages - English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Hebrew and random Cantonese.
