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Jenny Chan 陳詠欣
Jul 21, 2014

Q&A: Dentsu China CEO on DAN's ambitions, being 'seed-oriented' and innovation

SHANGHAI - It's not often that a journalist's cynicism gets slowly pecked away by a composed Japanese CEO despite to-and-fro language translation. But that's what happened in this exclusive interview with Moto Yamagishi (山岸纪宽), CEO of Dentsu China & North Asia, who is rumoured to be the next Dentsu Aegis Network China honcho.

Moto Yamagishi (山岸纪宽）

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