2026 Virtual Coaches
Ajay Thrivikraman
Chief Creative Officer
Publicis Groupe
Singapore
Ajay has spent much of his career with Publicis Groupe in leadership roles across Singapore, global clients in APAC, and now oversees 6 countries in the SEA region. In this time, the Groupe’s work across multiple agency brands have delivered strong business results, global account wins and growth, entered pop culture and helped drive social impact across the region. Recognized for both creativity and effectiveness at Cannes Lions, Spikes, Adfest, D&AD, the One Show, the Effies, WARC and more, the Groupe’s agencies have consistently been among the top-ranked in the SEA region in recent times across creative, media and PR. He has been named among Campaign Brief’s Asia-Pacific Creative Directors of the Year, Singapore’s Most Influential Creative Directors and Campaign’s Asia-Pacific Creative of the Year. Prior to his time in Singapore, he spent equal parts of his career across Malaysia, Indonesia and India.