Michael Alan Hamlin

Michael Alan Hamlin is an international authority on building strong place, corporate, and personal brands. He is based in Manila, and has worked throughout North and Southeast Asia for over three decades.

Michael is also the managing director of TeamAsia, an award-winning strategic marketing communications firm that develops corporate brand strategies, creative concepts, and marketing and communications programs for its clients. He is the author of five books.

His latest book is High Visibility: Transforming Your Personal and Professional Brand, co-authored with Philip Kotler, Irving Rein, and Martin Stoller. He is also the author of The New Asian Corporation: Managing for the Future in Post-Crisis Asia and Asia's Best: The Myth & Reality of Asia's Most Successful Corporations, and co-author of Marketing Asian Places: Attracting Investment, Industry, and Tourism to Cities, States and Nations.

TeamAsia's clients include CB Richard Ellis, the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), EMC, Exist Global, Fluor, Globe Telecom, Google, Gurango Software Corporation, Headstrong, HTC, InterGen, Japan Foundation, Japan International Cooperation Agency, John Clements, League of Corporate Foundations, Nestle, Microsoft, MediCall, Morph Labs, National Organizing Committee for the 12th ASEAN Summit, Philippine Association of Securities Brokers and Dealers, Philippine Society of Gastroenterology, Thomson Reuters, Sara Lee, Seagate, Soluziona, and many other corporations.

Michael has authored many articles in international and Asian publications on branding, business, and management. His commentaries have been published on the editorial page of the The Wall Street Journal Asia. He is a weekly columnist for the Manila Bulletin and a monthly columnist for ComputerWorld Philippines. His perspectives are frequently quoted in regional and international publications such as the Journal and BusinessWeek.

His professional associations include the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Authors Guild, the Foreign Correspondents Club (HK), International Association of Business Communicators, Management Association of the Philippines, American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, and the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. He is a director of Outsource2Philippines, Inc., and founder of the Hong Kong-based blog, AsianPundit. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Studies from Jochi Daigaku (Sophia University) in Tokyo, Japan, and a Master in Liberal Studies degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. 

Monette Hamlin

Monette Iturralde-Hamlin is the founder and president of TeamAsia. Monette leveraged a distinguished career in international publishing to conceptualize and create Asia's first agency dedicated exclusively to corporate identity development and non-traditional marketing communications. She developed the business and creative processes that made TeamAsia not just a pioneer in Asia, but an arbiter of industry performance.

Monette is a hands-on manager, taking direct responsibility for such innovative programs as The Asian Management Awards, Asia's first region-wide award for regional excellence, and the Global Information Infrastructure Commission's first Asian global conference. She oversees the execution of a wide range of highly targeted events, from exclusive breakfast briefings for top CEOs to gala product launches to public seminars by some of the world's top business speakers including Michael E. Porter, Peter Drucker, and Philip Kotler.

In 2006, among the major conferences and exhibits Monette and her team will manage are the Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Annual Conference, Software Innovations Philippines 2006, The 45th ACI World Congress, The League of Corporate Foundations Annual Conference, and the Asia Pacific Digestive Week Annual Conference. She conducts a regular series of product launches, CEO briefings, and technical meetings for clients in a broad range of industries, from steel manufacturing to software solutions.

A popular speaker in her own right, Monette regularly delivers workshops on business writing, public presentation skills, cross-cultural management, team building, and handling difficult people. These courses are offered on a monthly rotation to the public and are typically fully subscribed. Monette is also frequently invited to present these specialized seminars and workshops in-house for major global brands, multilateral institutions, and government agencies.

Monette was previously associate publisher for World Executive's Digest (WED) where she was responsible for circulation for most of the magazine's first decade. Monette increased WED's circulation from less than 15,000 to close to 70,000 throughout the region, making it Asia's fastest growing English-language magazine. Monette completed her Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology at the College of the Holy Spirit, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Her post-graduate studies were at the Asian Institute of Management where she completed her Master in Business Management with Distinction.