Singapore, 17 February 2025: Effective immediately, Jai Arya joins Interpublic Group agency as Director, People and Culture Asia-Pacific, Golin.

Joining from social media platform Tik Tok, where he held the role of HR Business Partner Leader, Arya is a transformative driver with over 15 years of experience in high-tech, advertising, and marketing industries. Prior to Tik Tok, Arya’s track record includes leadership roles at Havas Group and Wunderman.

In his new role, Arya is based out of Singapore, with oversight of APAC HR Market Leads – creating purposeful impact for employees across Golin’s agency brands and further empowering people across the region through innovative programs. His appointment follows Golin winning PRovoke Media’s Best Large Agency To Work For 2023, and Digital Consultancy of the Year 2024, for Asia-Pacific.

Arya reports into both Tiffiny Bolden, Golin’s Global Head of Human Resource, and Darren Burns, President, Asia Pacific. “Bringing Jai in right now sets us up for a new year like no other” says Burns. “His commitment to inclusive culture will prove pivotal in how we hire, engage and harness our industry’s great talent.”

Of his appointment, Arya shares “I am excited to take ‘life at Golin’ to the next level – building off an already inspiring culture to create even more meaningful experiences for our people and the business.”

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About Golin

Golin is a global public relations agency that helps companies create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively. Golin’s 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs. Golin is a 2024 Grand Prix winner from the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and Golin was named PRWeek’s 2024 overall Agency of the Year in the U.S., AMEC’s 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 Communications Research & Measurement Team of the Year and PRWeek’s 2021, 2020 and 2019 Global Agency of the Year.

Across Asia Pacific, we are proud to have made an impact for over 25 years with award-winning teams in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Jakarta, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, and Tokyo. In 2023 PRovoke awarded us Best Agency To Work For (Large) in Asia Pacific, while our Creative Intelligence Unit was accoladed as Specialist Consultancy of the Year 2023 and 2024 by PR Awards Asia.

For further information, please contact:

Lottie Longford, Director, Marketing & Communications, APAC: llongford@golin.com