Tina Kanagaratnam

CEO

“A good PR professional is like a good doctor: we analyze your symptoms, write the prescription, and administer the right tonics so that your business will be in the pink of health for many, many years.”

With 20 years of experience in China, including a decade as a journalist, Tina has a finely tuned sense of how a brand’s message will play in the market – and how to craft the messages that resonate with the press and with the public.

Linked In

Twitter: @TMK_TinaManiK

Instagram: @tinamani

Tina has worked with:

Aesop

Dulwich College

Pullman Lijiang

Radical Design Week

B.A. (Before AsiaMedia):

Account Manager, Citibank Singapore

Features Editor, Shanghai Daily

Award-winning journalist & author, Insight Guides Shanghai; Zagat Guide Shanghai; Shanghai Restaurant Review.

B.A., American University, International Relations & Economics

M.A., International Affairs, Columbia University

Is an expert in:

Crafting stories that resonate for a Chinese audience

Social media

Creative campaign ideas

Event organization & planning

Restaurants, food & hospitality

More about Tina …

Award-winning journalist and the author of several guidebooks to Shanghai, the most recent of which is The Who’s Who of the Where’s Where of Old Shanghai (2016)

Co-founder of some of Shanghai’s coolest cultural organizations: Historic Shanghai, Shanghai Art Deco, Literary Shanghai.

Third generation Singaporean of Ceylonese descent, raised in Washington, D.C.

Mother of two( mostly) delightful raised-in-Shanghai 20somethings.

Baker extraordinaire ~ she invented the yangmei pie