Ky delivers media training, freelance writing, video producing and a media presenter for the rapidly changing media world in Australia, thanks to over a decade at Australia's top news brands such as Sky News, the Financial Review and the ABC.
Worried a journalist won't "get" your business? Ky's roles in compliance, marketing and product management at KPMG, CommSec and Macquarie Bank means he also understands the practicalities and sensibilities of corporate life.
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Media training: get the most out of media interviews - and presentations to investors
Freelance writing: short articles and detailed reports on any topic, including financial services, technology, travel and health
Video producing: produce online videos that will be watched and absorbed, not just "tick a box"
Presenter and MC: host your event or present / voice your video
In Come to your senses in Kampung Glam (pp24-27), Ky describes how an underrated cultural district of Singapore is embracing technology.
Ky’s regular work with the ABC included this combined written and radio piece on one of several controversial incidents during debate ahead of Australia’s same sex marriage postal vote.
Ky profiles a series of up and coming young financial services companies in this white paper for CoreData Research Australia.
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Ky’s regular pieces for the Financial Review’s Life and Leisure section included this review of Brisbane’s NEXT hotel.
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Ky travelled to the US to interview top executives from Netflix including CEO Reed Hastings, and produced several articles for the AFR including this exclusive for the Media section.
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Online readers love a list of tips, including this report on flexible working by Ky for the Australian Financial Review.
Ky’s versatility includes light-hearted opinion articles such as this guide to authentic Chinese restaurant eating, published in the AFR’s Talking Points section.
An example of Ky’s long form writing skills, this 4,000 word report on the challenges facing Australia’s banking industry was commissioned by CoreData Research Australia.
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Ky’s extensive travel writing includes this piece on the Galapagos Islands for the Australian Financial Review’s Luxury magazine.
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As director of APAC's leading retail conference that hosts around 4,000 delegates, Inside Retail Live, we hired Ky as an MC. He exceeded all expectations, not only did his business knowledge shine through but his charismatic, bubbly and energetic nature was what really drew the crowd and kept their attention span stretched. Ky was also very well prepared and made a real effort to find out as much as possible about each speaker, including things that most people wouldn’t usually know.
I would highly recommend hiring Ky’s services as MC or interviewer and would do so myself with no hesitation.
Ky produced a corporate video on a ridiculously tight deadline. Result was fantastic! He zipped out to shoot the stock footage at short notice, knew exactly what components we'd need and sourced most of them himself, supplied a precise brief to our overseas creative editors and production team. He was on standby for rapid changes/requests and was so patient through the editing process.
On the final edit (with less than an hour to deadline!!!) one of the key stakeholders asked for a change to the voice over - Ky didn't bat an eyelid - he recorded and supplied the new voice over to our offshore team within 15-mins and chased them to ensure the final video was back on time on multiple platforms (Google drive, WeTransfer, etc.) to ensure everyone who needed had access.
As an experienced journalist as well as having a background in financial services, it was great to have engaged Ky to help us with our media training. Ky has also helped us with some video content and it always been really easy to communicate with Ky.
Established since 2007, Arowana is an operator of small and medium-sized enterprises and specialist asset manager.
Ky produced a corporate video for my company, MentorSelector. Right at the outset, I was impressed by Ky's experience and knowledge as well as his vision and conceptualisation of the vision into a final product that really impressed.
Considering our relative inexperience in producing a video, we greatly appreciated Ky's experience and his ability to guide us and make us feel comfortable when producing and appearing in our video.
During the editing process, Ky was able to take on board comments and amendments quickly and turnaround a great product very quickly.
Ky knew the budget we were working to and kept to it and was able to suggest ways to make sure the quality of the video remained whilst keeping within budget.
