MANILA – December 26, 2013 – Asterio Gutierrez has joined AKQA in Shanghai as assistant creative director and writer, handling accounts such as PepsiCo and Lego.
Gutierrez joins AKQA with an extensive creative background, including experience as a Freelance ACD and writer for Leo Burnett in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, as well as BBDO Guerrero.
Recently, he was also ACD and writer at DM9JaymeSyfu, and was part of the team that created SMART TXTBKS, which brought in countless awards for the agency in this year’s awards show run.
Gutierrez also counts two Palanca Awards for fiction to his name.
In July, Gutierrez and DM9JaymeSyfu issued an apology to Ace Saatchi & Saatchi after copy owned by the latter was used in an in-house ad by DM9.
The copy was written by Gutierrez while he was still employed by Ace Saatchi & Saatchi.
