Our APAC team
Jasmine oversees CDR’s seven markets in the region and has been with the company since 2005.
She leads many of CDR’s multinational financial institutions and professional services clients and also advises on M&As and IPO communications projects in the region.
An experienced trainer, she has conducted numerous media and speaker training sessions as well as crisis communications and messaging workshops. Prior to joining CDR, Jasmine worked at Bloomberg News in Hong Kong and BridgeNews in Singapore.
Jasmine Yap
CEO Asia Pacific
KW Lam
APAC Deputy CEO
KW joined CDR in 2026 as APAC Deputy CEO, bringing more than 30 years of experience in strategic financial communications and investor relations. Based in Hong Kong, he works closely with APAC CEO Jasmine Yap to oversee CDR’s operations across the region and support its in-market teams.
His experience spans both in-house and agency leadership roles, advising leading financial institutions and multinational companies on reputation management, corporate positioning and communications strategy. Prior to joining CDR, KW was Head of International Public Relations at Ping An Insurance Group, where he led communications of the company’s growth narrative to international capital markets stakeholders. He previously served as Managing Director of Hill+Knowlton Hong Kong (now Burson Hong Kong), providing strategic counsel to blue-chip companies across the financial services, technology, energy and consumer sectors.
Ayako Nakayama serves as a Director for CDR’s Tokyo office, where she uses her extensive experience in communications and public policy to advise multi-national clients and to enhance business development in Japan.
Her clients include asset management firms, banks, data providers and logistics firms. She has also led a number of events for the Austria Pavillion at the EXPO 2025 in Osaka.
Prior to joining CDR, Ayako worked at the Japan Integrated Resort Association. During this time, she has led various initiatives aimed at coordinating public-private partnerships related to the legalization of the integrated resort industry in Japan. She was responsible for functional communications and stakeholder management, closely collaborating with leading global entertainment companies, key media, as well as domestic and international government policymakers, and the private sector to advocate for the establishment of global legal standards.
Ayako Nakayama
Director and Head of Tokyo
Fanny has over 25 years of experience in public relations and financial journalism, news management and training.
She leads the Taipei operations for CDR, servicing both multinational and domestic clients. She advises clients on corporate communications and strategy, and also conducts media training sessions, drawing on her vast experience as a journalist.
Prior to joining CDR, she worked with the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires, Taiwan’s Central News Agency and Thomson Reuters. At Reuters, she won a global company-wide award for developing a unique Chinese-language interface allowing users of Reuters news terminals to better track news stories. Fanny has served as a lecturer on news writing for civil servants and has been a translator for Taiwan’s leading financial magazine, Business Today.
Fanny Liu
Executive Director & Head of Taipei
Hui Kheng Chia
Managing Director and Head of Singapore
Hui Kheng has over 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications.
She advises SGX-listed companies across diverse sectors as well as global financial institutions, providing strategic counsel in crisis management, stakeholder communications, media relations, investor relations and financial transactions. Prior to joining CDR, she was a broadcast journalist and then Executive Editor at Channel NewsAsia. She was also previously a reporter at Singapore’s Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao.
Maggie is an experienced communications professional with 15 years of experience, leading the operations of CDR’s Shanghai office.
She has a broad range of expertise in corporate communications and advising international companies in China. Her client portfolio mainly includes international financial institutions, as well as consumer and retail brands. Maggie is also a seasoned trainer in media training and crisis communications.
Before joining CDR, Maggie worked in the Transaction Services Department of an international accounting firm, where she gained valuable experience in mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.
Maggie holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Shanghai International Studies University. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.
Maggie Xu
Executive Director & Head of Shanghai
Sarah Tan
Director
Sarah has over a decade of experience in investor relations, corporate communications and corporate development within in-house teams and consultancies.
She has worked with global financial institutions and corporations to develop their communications strategy and investor relations programmes.
Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a Business minor in General Management from University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Sissi specializes in financial media relations, corporate communications, digital communications, and issue management.
With over a decade of PR experience in China, Sissi provides strategic counsel to leading Chinese and international financial institutions and listed companies. Before joining CDR, Sissi honed her skills at several local and international PR agencies, where she developed and executed PR campaigns for prominent financial services clients and listed companies. She is fluent in English and Mandarin.
Sissi Feng
Director & Head of Beijing | Beijing
Stanley White
Director & Deputy Head of Tokyo
Stanley White is a Director who leverages more than 20 years of experience as a financial journalist.
He joined CDR in June 2021, where he uses his extensive knowledge of the media landscape to advise clients on media relations, strategic communications, and stakeholder management.
Stanley previously worked at Thomson Reuters for more than a decade in Tokyo. Stanley has also worked in Japan as a reporter at Bloomberg LP and Dow Jones Newswires. Prior to that Stanley worked at CNN in Hong Kong.
Stanley has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Yale University. He speaks fluent Japanese.