Brian has been a product manager in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. He's built products at large companies (Yahoo!, Apple, PayPal), small startups (Cake Financial, Bleacher Report, Zong), and crazy growth unicorns (Airbnb, Plaid).

Kimming Yap is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Creativeans, an interdisciplinary brand and design management consultancy headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Jakarta and Milan. With over 15 years of experience in branding and design strategies, he has transformed brands across a broad range of industries including technology, retail, healthcare, beauty, food and beverage, furniture, industrial, and government.

Kimming’s works are a recipient of multiple design awards, and have been widely published and exhibited at international platforms such as Salone del Mobile, London Design Festival, and Triennale Design Museum. He is also the co-author of branding book ‘Are You Brand Dead?’, and is currently an Executive Committee Member of Design Business Chamber Singapore, a Council Member of Singapore Manufacturing Federation and Chairman of Lifestyle Industry Group, an Enterprise Singapore Management Consultant, and a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.

Committed to creating social and industry change, Kimming finds joy in imparting his knowledge to others to make the world a more creative place.

At DBCS, Kimming has facilitated a Customer Journey Mapping Design Thinking workshop for Singapore Business Federation (SBF) in Jan 2019. Here's more details of the workshop -> https://dbcsingapore.org/dbcs-customised-workshop-for-sbf-members/