Adam Flinter
Director of Digital, The Ate Group, Singapore
Adam Flinter has been operating in the digital game Europe and Asia for more than a decade.
An ex-journalist with mixed Western and Eastern heritage, he now runs a digital agency in Singapore and spends his time chastising anyone who calls him a ‘digital guru’ and explaining to bemused clients that he doesn’t actually know how to code.
Before that he helped launch the world’s first interactive TV news channel, ran a BBC creative digital team and built the biggest online media brand in the Middle East.
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