Uma Rudd Chia is Executive Creative Director and Cofounder of KVUR, a boutique advertising agency specialising in beauty, fashion and innovation brands.
She is a highly awarded creative and a sought-after global keynote speaker specialising on the topics of technology, innovation, women empowerment and creativity. She has spoken at over 14 countries to over 200,000 people in total in the past five years at events organised by Forrester Global, Facebook, Google, She Loves Data, Pause Fest and South by Southwest. Uma is the founder of The Female Idea, a platform she uses to advocate, mentor and champion female creative leaders.
A mother of two inquisitive kids and a feisty fur baby, Uma has sang in two acapella albums, created her own award-winning phonics programme-Reading PANTS™-and has authored three best selling books. Her recent Kindle Best Seller, 10 Things Brands Could Do To Survive a Crisis, was described by marketers and The Straits Times as ‘the toolkit for brands to take positive action to survive Covid-19’.