2025
Virtual Coaches
Donevan Chew
Chief Creative Officer
Havas Malaysia
Petaling Jaya
Donevan Chew was named #3 Most Awarded Creative Director in Malaysia by Campaign Brief Asia in 2024.
In his career of 24 years, he has helped an array of global and local brands create work of proven effectiveness and creativity across various digital and classic channels. HIs portfolio includes Nestle, Unilever, PepsiCo, Wyeth, Fonterra, Reckitt, Libresse and Red Bull to name a few.
Donevan has won over 190 awards and shortlists from an array of advertising award shows across the globe, From Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards, the One Show, D&AD, Spikes Asia (including a Grand Prix & Malaysian Agency of the Year 2022), Adfest (including Independent Agency of the Year 2022) to the Effies.
He has been summoned to jury duties at the New York Festivals 2014, Citra Pariwara Awards 2017, 2024 (Jakarta), MadStars 2018 (Korea) and the LIA Awards (2018, 2022, 2023), Spikes Asia 2023, Cannes Lions 2023 (Shortlist Jury), ONEAsia (2024) and The One Show (2025).
He has also been paying it forward to the creative industry as a mentor in the LIA Creative LIAisons program since 2021.