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Aun Koh

Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Ate Group, Singapore

Aun Koh is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Ate Group. Originally founded in Singapore in 2006 as a boutique consultancy providing lifestyle companies with innovative solutions for their communications and marketing needs, Ate has since grown into one of Singapore’s most dynamic and creative organizations. Today, Ate consists of 3 different private limited companies. Ate Integrated Communications; Ate Digital provides digital; and Ate Ideas.

Aun has worked for some of the world’s most well-reputed media properties, including the International Herald Tribune and Newsweek, and has also launched several impressive publications, including EAST magazine, an Asian regional lifestyle publication, and Shopping!, which won a Gold Medal for Best in Design at Publish Asia 2002. East, which was distributed across 13 countries, was called “Asia’s hippest magazine” by Asiaweek and “an Asian Vanity Fair” by Fortune.

Between 2004 and 2006, Aun ran the visual arts and literary arts divisions for the National Arts Council Singapore. Some of the projects that he oversaw include the Singapore pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Singapore Biennale, and the Singapore Writers Festival.

Aun has covered the hospitality and F&B industries throughout his career. In 2005 and 2006, he researched and wrote all of the essays on hotel trends for Institutional Investor’s annual hardback World’s Best Hotels. In 2006, he helped write SingaporeChic. Aun has written three cookbooks, two for acclaimed and award-winning hotels or hotel groups (Six Senses and Chiva-Som). He also runs one of Southeast Asia’s most popular food blogs, Chubby Hubby (www.chubbyhubby.net), which at its peak got over 3 million hits a month from over 90,000 unique visitors. 

 

 
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