Curriculum Vitae  ·  Prepared for Soho House  ·  Membership Director, Asia

Villie
Tsang

Building lifestyle brands and creative communities — global vision, local soul.
Profile

Brand and growth leader with 22 years building lifestyle brands where culture, community and commerce converge — from global strategy to regional and local execution. Trained in Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins (MA, Distinction). I spearheaded KEF Audio’s transformation from a speaker manufacturer into a premium lifestyle brand — building its global D2C business with three-digit revenue growth, leading a Global Marketing team across four regional hubs and seven functions, and delivering its first unified artist-led global campaign across five cities. Earlier, as a founding leader at STAKK, I grew a global community of 700,000+ millennial and Gen-Z audiences in under eight months, turning in-house creative producers into creator-branded influencers. Today I run The Boring Nation, a creative collective and network turning emerging artists into internationally exhibited voices — run directly out of Soho Houses worldwide, where I’m an All Houses member.

Translating global brand vision into culturally resonant regional execution.

Expertise
Community Building & Engagement Membership Growth, Acquisition & Retention Experiential Events & Member Programming Programme Curation & Storytelling Global Creative-Industries Network Artist / Creator Relationships & Curation Full-Funnel Brand & Integrated Campaigns Cross-Functional Leadership (6→80, 1→40) Member CRM & Data Strategic Partnerships & Activations Global-to-Regional-to-Local Brand Strategy & Governance Budget Ownership (HK$30–80M / yr over 7 yrs) English & Cantonese (native), Mandarin (intermediate)
Experience
Founder & Director
2021 — PRESENT
The Boring Nation — Hong Kong
  • Founded a creative collective, artist launchpad and network at the intersection of art, brand and community.
  • Creative collective & network (2025–present): built a five-pillar platform — brand lab (The Alchemy), artist-led brand development (The Artist Launchpad), digital publishing (The Press), operations advisory for SMEs (The Processor), and a community & network of talent and expertise (The Exchange). Curate and connect a cross-disciplinary community of artists, founders and creatives across Hong Kong and the wider region.
  • Artist Launchpad: brand build, gallery outreach and curatorial narrative for artist Kellyhosy’s 2026 debut tour — a curated solo show in Hong Kong, on to Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and beyond; building relationships with galleries, collectors and cultural partners internationally.
  • Growth consultancy, KEF (2022–25): three-year executive mandate leading KEF Audio’s brand, global marketing and growth across seven functions — including experiential retail events programming, cultural collaborations and partnerships.
VP Growth & Customer Engagement · Head of Global Digital Strategy
2017 — 2025
GP Global Marketing (KEF Audio) — Hong Kong
  • Set global brand strategy and governance and deployed it market by market — directly managing regional marketing teams across Asia and Europe to localise one brand vision into culturally resonant experiences.
  • Delivered KEF’s first unified artist-led experiential campaign, Listen and Believe, across five cities (Seoul, London, Melbourne, Tokyo, Amsterdam) — widening brand awareness, re-engaging dormant myKEF members and expanding into a Discord community.
  • Built KEF’s full-funnel, online-to-offline brand and D2C ecosystem to reach an affluent lifestyle audience beyond tech and sound enthusiasts — KEF.com global e-commerce, SoundofLife.com (upper-funnel cultural content, 100K+ monthly readers), soundlab.kef.com (mid-funnel sound-and-design discovery, in English, localised for Chinese & Japanese markets) and the myKEF member/CRM platform — driving three-digit YoY D2C growth.
  • Oversight of regional marketing teams: APAC (direct markets: Hong Kong HQ, China, Japan; Malaysia hub for the rest of Asia’s distribution markets) and Europe (London hub, with direct markets in the U.K., France, Germany and Netherlands).
  • Owned a HK$30–80M / yr global marketing budget over 7 years; built and scaled the team 1 → 40 across regional hubs in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London and Shenzhen.
  • Curated experiential brand programming and partnerships — retail events, cultural collaborations and member experiences at KEF Music Galleries worldwide.
Chief Design Officer
2016 — 2017
STAKK Factory — Hong Kong · millennial & Gen-Z media startup funded by Hong Kong’s PCCW
  • Founding team; scaled the company 6 → 80+ leading Creative, Content and Digital Products (UX/UI).
  • Built brand and revenue model around an engaged global community of 700,000+ millennial and Gen-Z audiences in under 8 months — turning in-house creative producers into creator-branded influencers; clients incl. Google, Cathay Pacific, Levi’s, Mattel. Silver ×3, WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards.
Earlier
2004 — 2016
Design Strategist, Asia Miles (Cathay Pacific loyalty & membership programme) · Senior Project Manager, Hong Kong Design Centre (BODW / KODW — major international design & culture events) · Senior Multimedia Designer, CNN International · Graphic Designer, Cartoon Network.
Selected Work
01
Listen and Believe
KEF’s first unified global brand activation · 2023–25
A five-city experiential, artist-led campaign — Amsterdam, Tokyo, Melbourne, London & Seoul — widening brand awareness, re-engaging dormant myKEF members, and driving ~HK$5.6M+ attributed revenue in its first year.
02
Journey Through Sound
KEF × fx(hash) × Parameta · 2022–24
Curated five generative artists into acoustic sculptures — multi-sensory works exhibited at KEF Music Galleries in London, Tokyo & Hong Kong, with selected pieces at satellite cultural events.
03
Artist Launchpad — Inaugural artist
The Boring Nation × kellyhosy.com · 2025–26
Brand build, gallery outreach and curatorial narrative for the artist’s 2026 debut tour — Hong Kong, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and beyond.
04
Sound of Life
Powered by KEF · Upper-funnel lifestyle content platform · 2018–25
A cultural content platform and community reaching 100K+ monthly readers across English and Chinese, built with a worldwide creator network.
05
KEF Sound Lab
Mid-funnel sound-and-design discovery platform, powered by KEF
An interactive brand platform demystifying sound and design for a lifestyle audience — turning curiosity into consideration, published in English, Chinese and Japanese.
06
Non-Fragment Token
Fragment Design (Hiroshi Fujiwara) × Mark Gonzales · 2022
Marketing campaign that drove the sell-out of a 10,000-edition NFT — sold out within the first 10 minutes of launch (Solana).
Education
MA, Innovation Management — Distinction
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London  ·  2010–2012
Dissertation on organisational design & management — Creative Hybridisation: A Gameful Workplace
Hons BA, Visual Arts (Studio) — Graduated with Honours
New Media Design & Communications · University of Toronto Scarborough, joint program with Centennial College, Canada  ·  2001–2005
Languages & Availability
English & Cantonese (native) · Mandarin (intermediate)  ·  Available from October 2026.