CommercialMarket Development

Experienced F&B marketing expert specializing in business strategy, market entry, and growth across Asia Pacific markets.

Rob Hall

Rob Hall

TH TH AU AU 🌐 APAC
Growth Asia

Bio

Rob is an Australian with over 25 years of brand and marketing experience across Asian markets– working in cities including Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore & Bangkok. A key focus has been working with F&B brands to localize their brand, marketing, and sales experiences throughout the region. Rob combines a solid strategic brand/marketing background from working on the F&B brand side, with the practical marketing implementation experience from working with agencies across Asia. Rob is currently the Founder and CEO of Growth Asia, a Business & Brand Consultancy that helps Brands successfully expand into or across Asia Pacific markets. Rob also helps clients coming into the APAC region find world-class local agencies via Lotus Agency Collective. They’ll find the right partner across a diverse category of services including: branding & design, research, communications & PR, digital agencies & technology platform development, experiential & events, as well as martech and AI services. Growth Asia helps brands make the significant transition to managing global and regional market expansion. They work with many F&B categories, across B2C & B2B channels, to provide everything brands need to launch their business and drive growth successfully in competitive mass markets throughout Asia. They can do this by offering regional business & market development strategy, specific market entry & development plans, and provide assistance in managing & growing local markets after launch - including securing local market partners.

Experience

Growth Asia

Business strategy, planning, and market development for brands expanding into or across APAC markets. This includes a lot of work for F&B and FMCG companies expanding into the region

Founder and Partner · Thailand, SE Asia 2020–Present

  • Worked with:

Lotus Agency Collective

Connecting clients to find independent world-class agencies in local markets to meet their local implementation needs through agency search consultancy

Founder and CEO · Thailand, SE Asia 2024–Present

  • Assisting in finding/evaluating/selecting branding & design agencies for a client expanding into Thailand
  • Finding Market/Product Testing agencies for a client in Indonesia
  • Finding the right Website & Platform Development work for a client in Singapore
  • Find/evaluate E-commerce Enablers/Partners for a client expanding into Thailand & SE Asia
  • Find/evaluate a Digital/Communications agency for a client expanding into the Philippines and Singapore

Dot 360

Managing Director · Thailand/SE Asia 2016–2019

  • We worked with global & regional brands - including F&B brands from Unilever, Nestle, Suntory & Tipco - to create ongoing sales & brand development across Asia.
  • We built an agency of 55 people, including platform development, media, and retail campaign creation for 12 local and international clients across 6 countries (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, UK) and hitting 2m USD in annual revenue.

Mullen Lowe Open/Lowe Profero

General Manager · Thailand 2011–2016

  • Worked with global & regional F&B brands - including Heineken, Tiger, Suntory, Cheers, Diageo, F&N, Nestle and Unilever - growing their brands across Asia.
  • We did this by building an integrated ATL & Trade Activation team (Mullen Lowe Open) and strong Integrated Digital Brand Experience Team (Mullen Lowe Profero) over 4 years.
  • Achieving +30% revenue growth annually and +15% margin every year - and more importantly, strong key client business performance over this period