About me

Manabu Kudo
Planning Director at Grey / Prior TBWA, Havas

Always passionating to be a brave strategist with brave agency for brave client.

10 years of experience in marketing world at creative agency, consulting company, working such as L'Oréal, Reckitt benckiser, Puma, Leica, Accor, Meta, Häagen-Dazs, AIG, Bel Group(Kiri, Belcube, Babybel) , Peugeot and Citroën.

Before joining Grey, he was strategic director at TBWA Hakuhodo and Havas Creative.
In Havas Creative, he led strategic thinking for North Asia Market as well as worked closely with BETC, one of most elegant creative agency in the world.

His strategic behaviour is to put values on both of business and consumer mindset and to tell a product demo disguised as a sexy and bold ad.
Manabu was nominated for top 25 strategy manager and shortlisted influencer of the year 2020 on Creativepool, London.

He really likes working on the street to to explore unexpected things happen in real people of real world.
The one thing he care on the street is to see different angle.
This is his soul-living as strategic thinker.

Love seeing, thinking and acting differently.