Who you'll work with

He assesses competitors, customers, distribution channels and suppliers, then helps clients select partners and plan their operations in each market.

At Constellation Brands, he grew Ballast Point to become the #2 selling beer brand in their portfolio within months of adoption. At Heart of Darkness Brewery, he increased international and domestic sales every year, created an OEM business that now accounts for 50%+ of brewery volume, and secured chain retail placements across Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Finland.

Chris holds a JD from Florida State University College of Law and an MS in Applied Economics from Florida State. He's lived and worked in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong, and now calls Thailand home. He works with clients from strategy through to execution.

Today, Oliver works with businesses, government agencies, and not-for-profits to develop and execute effective brand and digital strategies, grow brands and products, and enter new markets. Recent examples include working with the Malaysian government to promote the DE Rantau digital nomad visa, content SEO strategy for an international school, representing the US Brewers Association's Export Development Program in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and brand refresh work for a Thailand-based B2B importer and distributor.

He's worked with a range of clients including government ministries (Singapore's Ministry of Information, Communication & the Arts, Vietnam's Ministry of Health, Malaysia's MDEC), FMCG (L'Oréal, P&G, Unilever), banking (UBS, Standard Chartered, UOB, CIMB), beverages (Schweppes, Johnnie Walker, Carlsberg, Hennessy, Sapporo), energy (PETRONAS, Tenaga Nasional), and automotive (Ford, Proton, Isuzu, Renault).

Originally from New Zealand, Oliver has lived and worked across Asia for nearly two decades and now calls Malaysia home. He holds a BA (Hons) in Political Studies from the University of Auckland.

Building on his foundation applying database solutions in the automotive industry, Spencer now focuses on applied AI integration: connecting real-world operations and data to practical AI tools and deploying agents and chatbots that embed AI into daily operations.

As co-founder and Managing Director of Redpoint Brewing Company in Taiwan, he designed and built the company's manufacturing and data platform from the ground up, integrating automation and AI to optimize sales, production, quality, and inventory.

His expertise spans ERP/MES platforms, databases, process automation, AI agents, and AI-enabled workflows. Spencer has lived in China and Taiwan for over 19 years and now calls Taiwan home.

He has worked in Malaysia, Vietnam and Europe and studied in the UK.

In the beverage trade media space, he has spent nearly six years as a content director, building an editorial voice, managing content development, and growing readership across the region. Before that, he worked in environmental consulting, coordinating support programmes for independent palm oil producers, and in digital forensics in Amsterdam, consulting on scanning software for fraud investigation cases.

Born in Bangkok and raised across Southeast Asia and the Netherlands, Christopher holds a BA in Environmental Social Sciences from the University of Kent.