{"id":550506,"date":"2026-07-15T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:35:13","slug":"dante-abelarde-signs-on-with-klick-health-as-creative-lead-in-asia-pacific-campaign-brief-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550506\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Abelarde signs on with Klick Health as Creative Lead in Asia-Pacific \u2013 Campaign Brief Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    July 15 2026, 1:01 pm | BY Kim Shaw | <a href=\"#comments\">No Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dante-Abelarde.jpg\" alt=\"Dante Abelarde signs on with Klick Health as Creative Lead in Asia-Pacific\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t    \tVeteran creative director Dante Abelarde is returning to Singapore to join Klick Health as Creative Lead. Klick Health was last month named Cannes Lions\u2019 Healthcare Agency, Healthcare Network, and Independent Agency of the Year \u2013 Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abelarde takes up the Group Creative Director, APAC role and brings more than 20 years of experience leading creative teams across Asia-Pacific, including 17 years with MRM and McCann Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>His work has earned more than 100 local, regional, and global creative, marketing, and effectiveness awards, with recognition from Spikes Asia, Effies, the Clios, ADC, AMAs, London International Awards, and New York Festivals. He has also been shortlisted as Campaign Asia\u2019s Creative of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Klick, Abelarde held senior creative roles, including Executive Creative Director at McCann Worldgroup Singapore, MRM\/McCann Singapore, and, most recently, McCann Philippines. His experience spans integrated, digital, mobile, social, content, loyalty, CRM, and creative strategy. He has led work for global brands, including Abbot, Friesland Campina, Intel, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Mastercard, Microsoft, and Unilever; with healthcare work across categories, such as cardiovascular, dermatology, infectious disease, nutritional supplements, and ophthalmology.<\/p>\n<p>He has also served as a juror at New York Festivals Health, Spikes Asia, and ADFEST, and was part of MRM and McCann\u2019s Creative Leadership Council. From 2019 to 2021, he co-chaired the AAMS Crowbar Awards, Singapore\u2019s leading awards show for young creative talent, helping introduce and mentor the next generation of advertising creatives.<\/p>\n<p>Klick\u2019s Managing Director, APAC Graeme Read said, \u201cDante brings the rare combination of regional depth, digital fluency, and creative ambition that makes teams better and the work stronger. He has built and led high-performing creative teams, and we\u2019re thrilled to have him at Klick and help our clients create high-impact campaigns that improve patient outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKlick has the kind of energy, talent, and ambition to do things differently that makes this an incredibly exciting next chapter,\u201d Abelarde said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to helping grow world-class ideas, elevate local talent, and create work that helps healthcare brands make a real difference in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 15 2026, 1:01 pm | BY Kim Shaw | No Comments Veteran creative director Dante Abelarde is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-550506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}