Over 35 Years of international magazine experience, most recently 7
year as group publisher of Asian Sources Media Group based in Hong Kong
and Manila. Mike managed the largest division of company, launching several
new trade publications, and was responsible for the significant growth
of the company in China. Prior to Asian Sources he was the marketing Director
for Time Magazine, based in Hong Kong. He also gained extensive trade
magazine experience in Canada's 2 leading magazine publishing companies,
as well as being owner of his own magazine, Toronto Business. Mike has
an extensive knowledge of trade publishing, the needs of China's industry
and the Asian publishing industry.
Twenty two years trade media sales experience in Asia and the US.
Prior to joining Ringier, he did seven years with Global Sources, four
as regional sales manager based in Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai, and
three years in Tokyo as Japan country manager. Before adventuring
into Asia, he was based in New York with his own very small media company
which published country reports on trade and foreign investment opportunities
in Latin American and the Caribbean. Before that he was the New
York-based North and South American representative for South, an emerging
markets business magazine based in London. His first foray in the
media business was a rag magazine he published in college.
Prior to joining Ringier, David worked for various well-known international, Hong Kong based and China media corporations including the Asian Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek Asia, China Daily Hong Kong, Sing Tao Press Group and Time Warner. He took a key role when BusinessWeek Asian edition and China Daily Hong Kong edition were launched. David's 18 years of media experience in the publishing field covers many different areas such as advertising, circulation, conference and event management, editorial, marketing, production and operation. David graduated in Canada with a joint major degree in business administration and economics.
Dave joins Ringier with over 10 years of copyediting, writing, translation, content management and data structure design experience in both traditional publishing and e-publishing industries. Previously, he was the e-publishing manager at Digital Vision Education Publishing in Hong Kong, producing bilingual textbooks and software. Dave is now leading a team of experienced Ringier technical editors, responsible for trade journals of high professional standards. He is a graduate of Trinity Western University in Canada with a masters in Computing from City University of Hong Kong.
