MTV Asia Names Research, Planning VP

SINGAPORE, October 3: Ian
Stewart has been appointed to the newly created position of VP of research and
planning at MTV Networks Asia Pacific.

Stewart returns to MTV after having most recently served as
the global head of Trend Research at Synovate in Bangkok. In 2000, he founded
FILTER, a youth marketing agency that was acquired by Synovate in 2005. Prior
to that, he was a strategic planner for Ogilvy and served as Coca-Cola’s Trend
Manager in North Asia. He began his career in Asia in 1990, when he worked with
qualitative market research firm MBL.

Ian will officially join the company on October 16 and will
be based out of the MTV Networks Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.