Michael A. Hamlin

Michael Alan Hamlin is an international authority on building strong place, corporate, and personal brands. He is based in Manila, and has worked throughout North and Southeast Asia for over three decades.

Michael is also the managing director of TeamAsia, an award-winning strategic marketing communications firm that develops corporate brand strategies, creative concepts, and marketing and communications programs for its clients. He is the author of five books.

His latest book is High Visibility: Transforming Your Personal and Professional Brand, co-authored with Philip Kotler, Irving Rein, and Martin Stoller. He is also the author of The New Asian Corporation: Managing for the Future in Post-Crisis Asia and Asia's Best: The Myth & Reality of Asia's Most Successful Corporations, and co-author of Marketing Asian Places: Attracting Investment, Industry, and Tourism to Cities, States and Nations.

TeamAsia's clients include APC, Ayala Corporation, Business Processing Association Philippines (BPA/P), ClickEffects, Crocs, DTSI, EMC, ExcelAsia, First Gen, Fluor, Globe Telecom, Google, Gurango Software, HTC, JDA, League of Corporate Foundations, Lopez Group of Companies, MAPFRE, Microsoft, MediCall, National Organizing Committee for the 12th ASEAN Summit, Nestle, Philippine Society of Gastroenterology, Philippine Association of Securities Brokers and Dealers, Philippine Stock Exchange, StarTek, Thomson Reuters, Tranzen, Sarah Lee, Seagate, Soluziona, Supply Chain Consulting, Telus, WYSE, and many other organizations.

Michael has authored many articles in international and Asian publications on branding, business, and management. His commentaries have been published on the editorial page of the The Wall Street Journal Asia. He is a weekly columnist for the Manila Bulletin and a monthly columnist for ComputerWorld Philippines. His perspectives are frequently quoted in regional and international publications such as the Journal and BusinessWeek.

His professional associations include the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Authors Guild, the Foreign Correspondents Club (HK), International Association of Business Communicators, Management Association of the Philippines, American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, and the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. He is a director of Outsource2Philippines, Inc., and founder of the Hong Kong-based blog, AsianPundit. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Asian Studies from Jochi Daigaku (Sophia University) in Tokyo, Japan, and a Master in Liberal Studies degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.