Over two decades at Weber Shandwick, Vanessa has worked with teams to build and grow some of the agency’s largest and most enduring regional client relationships. As Chief Client & Growth Officer for Asia Pacific, she drives a client-centric focus on leadership and innovation, builds new areas of expertise, expands capabilities, and oversees new approaches to talent, training, knowledge management and intelligence. She also works actively as senior counsel on key accounts and has deep expertise managing large multimarket programs for global clients, driving integrated multi-disciplinary campaigns, developing communications infrastructures and building effective agency network teams across Asia Pacific.

Vanessa has helped her clients win numerous awards, been active on jury panels and was recognized by the Holmes Report on it’s 2019 Innovator 25 Asia-Pacific list. She served as PR Jury President for Spikes Asia in 2021, and was on the PR Jury for Cannes 2021.