Ronin Team
Raj Seth, Managing Director
For almost three decades, Raj Seth has worked with a wide range of companies, from blue-chip global players to hot American and Asian start-ups, in communications, marketing and advertising roles.
Before founding Ronin Communications in 2014, Raj was Partner at Newgate Communications, and Technology Practice SVP at Fleishman Hillard, where he was appointed as Partner for Asia Pacific as well as the Co-Chair of the firm’s global technology.
Raj’s other career highlights include working in-house for CA Technologies as VP, APAC Communications, and Technology Practice VP, Asia Pacific, at Hill & Knowlton.
As a Hong Kong native, Raj is fluent in Cantonese and he has devoted his career to marketing, communications, and building brands across Asia Pacific.
Raj has won a succession of industry awards and is a well-known commentator on technology and communications topics and trends. In his spare time, he is a collector of vinyl records, especially rare 1960s Jazz LPs.
Scott Silverman, Director
Scott has experienced several twists and turns in a career spanning over 25 years; 17 on the ground in Asia where he kicked things off in Japan as Ogilvy’s Regional Director on the IBM business based in Tokyo. Then he was the Greater China lead for IBM.
Four years, and five passport extensions later, he was still making that weekly commute from Tokyo to Beijing. Changed cities and teams moving on to Hong Kong to run Motorola, back to Tokyo for Nestle, Singapore, and back to Beijing and HK to handle Microsoft, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mobile World Congress (GSMA), Sony-Ericsson, JD Power, CES Asia, and Huawei.
He returned to the US in January 2015 founding The Context Collective, a marketing consultancy developing creative in context with strategy and with data.
Career Low Point, falling asleep and snoring throughout a two-hour global conference call.
Career High Point, they never found out it was him.
Saurabh Sharma, Director
Award-winning marketer with experience leading world-class creative campaigns for Fortune 100 companies including Adobe, ServiceNow, Toyota, Globalization Partners and McDonald’s.
Well-versed at delivering market research, insights and strategy touching all facets of the business buying cycle from conceptualization to completion.
A humble servant-leader who loves to work cross functionally to produce social media campaigns, prime time TV ads, insightful blogs, eBooks and customer success stories to establish the brand from the competition.