Dick has been working out of Hong Kong and across the Asia Pacific for over 24 years. During that time, he has worked in agency with Hill & Knowlton and in-house with Lucent Technologies, Alcatel and BT Global Services. During these years he developed a two-pronged expertise of crisis issues management and media skills training, alongside a Telecommunications technology focus working as a part of Asia Pacific and global teams. He has extensive experience in ‘real’ crisis comms situations.  These include extensive redundancy communications, hands-on crisis situations including FCPA and labour issue work in China and employee issues in Guatemala with US owners and Chinese contractors. He has also built four day training programs with hundreds of participants, across multiple cities. He was a registered Lobbyist in Ottawa for the Government Business Consulting Group where he focused on big pharma patent protection, open skies between Canada/US and procurement issues in expanding private business opportunities in the government procurement process. Dick has an MBA from Kellogg/HKUST, a degree in Asian Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, English & Economics. He speaks English, some French and basic Cantonese.

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