• Russell Jones

 

Russell is a professional writer well-known for his work in the field of creative communications.

 

A long-time resident of Hong Kong, he is the founder-partner of two regional advertising agencies and has written, produced and directed a string of award-winning global campaigns for many leading local and multinational companies, as well as high-level tourism and trade organizations in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and China.

 

His varied extracurricular activities in Hong Kong include creating and operating a high profile F&B / live entertainment venue, and the promotion of several successful rock concerts featuring major international artists.

 

• Noel Quinlan

Noel is an internationally known composer and producer who has worked in the Hong Kong entertainment industry for many years.

 

He is widely published in English and Chinese and his “Middle Kingdom” CD series has sold well over 1,000,000 CD’s to loyal Chinese and Western fans worldwide. Noel has written and produced large-scale theatrical productions based on his pioneering Chinese-Western fusion music including “Tales from the Middle Kingdom”

 

A prolific composer, he has written and produced numerous film scores including the ground-breaking “The Man From Hong Kong”, recognized as the first Australian/Hong Kong film co-production.

 

• Larry Brody

 

Larry has been profiled in such national magazines as Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Starlog, People, Electronic Media, IndieSlate, on websites such as TechTV, and of course in TV Guide.

 

Brody has produced literally thousands of hours of network and syndicated television. He has created, produced, or written for The Huntress, Diagnosis Murder, Star Trek: Voyager, Walker Texas Ranger, Heaven Help Us, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Baretta, The Fall Guy, Automan, Partners In Crime, Mike Hammer, The New Rin Tin Tin, Police Story, The Bold Ones, Hawaii Five-0, Here Come The Brides, Partners In Crime, The Rookies, The Interns, The Streets Of San Francisco, Cannon, Ironside, Medical Story, Medical Center, The Six Million Dollar Man, Barnaby Jones and Super Force, among others.

 

Both Spawn and Police Story have won Emmy Awards, and Farrell For The People, one of the many MOWs Brody has writen, won a Women in TV & Film Award for Best Drama. An episode written by Brody for Medical Story won the Population Institute Award and was also nominated for the Humanitas Prize.

 

In addition to all this, Brody has been a pioneer in both in web series and video game development, and his how-to book, Television Writing From The Inside Out, is a best-seller used as a text in screen and television writing classes at many colleges and universities, including UCLA.

 

• Andrew Chester

 

Andrew is the unsung hero behind several small bands you won't recall on big labels that you will, including Creation, Universal and Ministry Of Sound. His first signal achievement was an album of exquisitely electronicized soul-searching called Vulnerabilia that he put out in 2002 with then-musical partner Dave Luke when the pair went under the name My Computer. It was an astounding piece of work that moved one leading monthly rock magazine to describe it.

 

• Athene Choy

 

Athene relocated to Hong Kong from her native England over 40 years ago. She is an experienced human relations/business problem-solver, skilled in providing professional, objective management advice and assistance through the transfer of knowledge and experience who, throughout her career, has relied upon – and honed - her inherent writing skills. Since the early 1980s, she has written articles and features on a broad range of topics and individuals.

 

In the late 1990s, she re-focused her role to the provision of a full range of writing services (management and training manuals, business plans, articles, marketing materials, etc) to a broad client base, including a 2-year period as writer and Editor of a quarterly, subscription, publication.  During the course of her career, Athene has gained a sound knowledge of people from all walks of life, with specific experience of Asia/Pacific markets and cultures. She has extensive experience in working in multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-racial environments. Apart from writing, her areas of specific expertise encompass recruitment, career counselling, cross-cultural communication and teaching.