Timothy Kwok

General Manager, Thoughtful China

Timothy Kwok is one of China’s leading digital marketing professionals with global experience at companies such as Sapient, Communication Central Group (now known as Digitas China), Lemon Asia and Shepherd Digital, which he founded in 2007. Timothy joined Thoughtful China from Great Works, an award-winning full-service digital marketing agency with offices in Stockholm, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai.

Timothy has worked in diverse markets such as the U.S., India and Hong Kong, but has been based in Shanghai for the past eight years. He relocated to China with Lemon as director of operations, growing that business from 10 people in 2004 to about 70 people within 18 months, while also adding offices in Beijing and Shenzhen.

He has handled digital marketing for advertisers such as Audi, Agriculture Bank of China, BenQ, China Eastern Airlines, Electronic Arts, Forbes magazine, Goldman Sachs, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Jin Jiang International Hotels, KFC, Nippon Paint, Philips Lighting, Lucent Technologies, Mercer Consulting, Sony Electronics, TOTO, Jelly Belly Candy Company and Jardine Schindler.

Timothy’s project portfolio ranges from digital marketing campaigns to complex enterprise architecture solutions, such as word-of-mouth marketing, mobile and CRM campaigns, CMS development, large-scale data migration and system integration projects, as well as other mission-critical applications development.

Timothy is an active member of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and he serves as a commissioner of the Anti-Spam Committee of Internet Society of China (ASISC). He received a bachelor’s degree in economics as well as computing and information science from Queen’s University in Canada.