How I got here: Omnicom Media Group’s Cheuk Chiang
Omnicom Media Group’s CEO for the Asia–Pacific region reminisces about working in his parents’ restaurant as a child, the work ethic it instilled in him and how this led him on his upward journey through the region’s advertising and media scene.
Education
I started my life in Melbourne growing up in my family’s Chinese restaurant where I started working as a waiter from the age of seven.
Cheuk, centre, aged seven
My mum gave me a clip-on bow tie, and I would stand on a milk carton and take orders. It was a great first training ground and it taught me many things about business – how to interact with people, how to service, how to sell, how to manage, how to problem solve, how to multi-task and how to listen.
