Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity, the worlds most prestigious and recognized industrial event has selected Brian Yongsik Nam to serve as a jury member in the Cyber category in June 2014. Dr. Nam is the only representative from China serving on Cyber Lions.
In 2013, Dr. Brian Yongsik Nam who is Chief Executive Officer of Cheil OpenTide, a top tier digital marketing agency in China, was elected as one of the top 10 leaders of digital agencies in China by Chinese Advertising Magazine.
Dr. Nam holds a Ph.D. in marketing. After 5 years of being in academia, he is now leading Cheil OpenTide, and has garnered over 15 years of experience in digital marketing in China. Dr. Nam advocates an EFDM (End to end Fully Digitalized Marketing) service, with onsite real time agility and offers a valuable and innovative digital marketing service chain.
Dr. Nam has been elected as chairman and jury to Chinas top awards from CIAF (China International Advertising Festival), Effie China, ROI Festival, Golden Mouse and Tencent MIND Awards. Cheil OpenTide has successfully provided its outstanding services to a variety of clients including: Samsung, ABC, Hennessy, Great Wall Motor, Yili Milk and Yanjing Beer, as well as a number of high profile Chinese businesses in financial services and telecommunications sectors such as ICBC, Agricultural Bank of China, Huaxia Bank, Taikang Insurance, China Mobile and China Unicom.
In 2013, Cheil OpenTide was selected as the Best Digital Agency in China at the China International Advertising Festivals, among many other awards in and outside China. The agency has networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei and South Korea.