Team Members

Quyen is a Swiss army knife. She manages the AVC team and helps clients meet their objectives. Quyen’s secret weapon, though, is her fascination with people. After earning her Honours Bachelor’s in Psychology from Lakehead University, she worked with a theatre company. Here, she discovered that marketing and understanding the human condition go hand-in-hand. She transformed her empathy and passion for helping others to market for the non-profit.

With a Post-Graduate in Public Relations and Communications, she has worked in Strategy, Events, Advertising, and Communications. Now AV Communications is her home, where in multicultural marketing, empathy is ever more important. Taking new perspectives, learnings from her diverse team, and her psychological background, Quyen gets to the root of all problems.

Born in Indonesia and moving to Canada when she was two years old, she’s also fluent in English and Vietnamese. She likes cooking, baking, and everything experiential — festivals, performances, and art! (She recommends the AGO). She hopes to one day visit Bali with her dog, Baloo, to go full circle and learn about the place near where she was born.

As a dynamic thinker, Candice is driven by marketing’s requirement to always be on her toes. She has years of experience working in all parts of marketing, notably in the cosmetic and fashion industry. Candice has also launched brands, products, e-commerce sites, sales strategies, and digital and offline campaigns. At AVC, she’s a part of the Account Team, Events Team, and Influencer Management Team. Whether performing a market analysis or directing a photoshoot – Candice does it all. Literally.

After graduating from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) with an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and Information System, she immediately took on managing in-house marketing and entire brands. At the same time, she studied Japanese for four years! She’s also fluent in English and Cantonese.

For fun, she enjoys cooking, baking, and exploring large grocery store aisles. One day, she hopes to write a recipe book. (After more practice, she says, though pastries and cheesecake are already a piece of cake). Her life motto: to always explore the world, go outside your comfort zone, and gain international experience. She has travelled to South Korea, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Los Angeles, New York, and now lives in Canada!

There is an art to Media Planning, and Zhanna is a Master of It. She has a Bachelor’s in Publishing and Editing from the National University of Taras Shevchenko, and a Diploma in Creative Advertising from Seneca College, where she studied both the creative and business sides of media. At AVC, she brings method and creativity together with years of experience working with clients and designing media plans in the Advertising Industry.

One of her favourite parts of Media Planning: developing strategy and working with the blocking charts! She loves planning, formatting, and details. In fact, she has planned and travelled to nearly every country in Europe (and has plans for months-long trips in the works too).

For fun, she enjoys learning and new experiences, such as she wants to try working in the United States. For now, she meets with friends, explores festivals, and tries out new local restaurants. Her favourite type of cuisine is Ukrainian and Italian! Fun Fact: her two pet Rats, named Ally and Laura, are short for Alaska and Florida.

Aleksander has a hidden talent: storytelling. As a Graphic Designer, he ensures that each mock-up, animation, or edit of AVC’s creative assets conveys a beginning, a middle, and a call to action. Designs with a story make for thoughtful and convincing deliverables. It’s no surprise that, before pursuing Graphic Design, he wanted to become a Children’s Books illustrator.

Before joining AVC, he led Graphic Design, Web and UX/UI Design, Product Photography, and Production Design projects for South American, North American, and European companies. He earned a degree in Illustration and Design from Centro Art Escuela de Diseño (Art Center College of Design) in Venezuela and a Diploma in Interactive Media Design from Seneca College.

Aleksander also enjoys journaling, podcasts, and art! He hopes to visit as many art museums as possible, and his favourite museum destinations so far include France, Spain, and New York! He is fluent in Spanish and English and has also studied Latin, French, Japanese, HTML, and CSS. His next voyage: explore Icelandic culture and landscapes.

At AVC, Kelly is a Marketing Analyst Summer Intern and supports the team with research and content writing. Before joining AVC, she assisted a history professor in their research and archived for a non-profit! Currently, she’s pursuing a dual degree in Honours Business Administration and English Language & Literature.

During high school, she founded a sustainability club, was a member and president of the art council, and marketed for several other student organizations. What drew her to marketing is how humans think. She noticed that observing human behaviour could decode how to improve an event’s success, engage more students, or decrease school assembly boringness!

In her free time, you can find her taking walks (even in the winter) or reading (she recommends Madeline Miller for Greek mythology fans!). Born in Canada, she’s fluent in English and knows a bit of Cantonese and French. One day, she hopes to teach.

It might be fair to say that Xi has been living a “triple treat” of a life. She has made three countries her home: China, France, and Canada, and it’s not surprising that she speaks fluent Mandarin, French, and English, which makes Canada officially one of the most welcoming countries for her. But, if you think of all Xi’s adventures, her triple treat is only one fifth of the countries she has been. Living and visiting different places has given her unique perspectives on both life and work. As a SEM expert in previous agencies like Performics (Publicis) and Havas Media, she worked with both B2B and B2C clients including Lenovo, Emirates, Oracle, Singapore Tourism Board, AXA.

Xi’s personality is nothing short of a paradox: she has a fear for deep bodies of water (Thalassophobia, perhaps), but the seaside is her favorite landscape when she’s choosing a travel destination. She loves summer yet she chose Montreal as her latest hometown; and though she feasts on dessert, one of her biggest accomplishments has been losing over 10kg with exercise. Her solution to her contradictory traits is to keep a good balance of everything in life and work.

Xi believes that an interesting soul makes an interesting world, and she proves that every day in how she lives her life with boundless enthusiasm and a knack for adventure.

Xiafan has always been a prolific content producer. In the past ten years, he has written hundreds of content pieces for TV and new media – from China to America, back to China again, and finally here in Canada.

As a Content Producer at AVC, Xiafan delivers excellent marketing content in all kinds of formats for brands such as H&M, BMO Financial, Arbor Memorial, and Canon. One thing that satisfies him is to see his work go live and boost sales for clients.

When he is not writing content or contacting media agencies, you can find him taking photos of the sunset at the lakefront or grilling Northern Chinese barbeque beef in his backyard. Those two other things make him feel 100% satisfied.

Since Xiafan has producer blood in him, we would not be surprised if he ends as a film or music producer someday! But before that, he will wield his artistic talent at AVC.

If Rolando is not whipping up something good inside his kitchen, he is cooking up something incredible for global brands. Having been in the sales and marketing industry for more than 20 years, Rolando has helped several brands, among them Jollibee, Unilever, Pepsi, Nike, LG Electronics, Canon, Pfizer, and SkipTheDishes, taste sweet success.

His secret ingredient? A great amount of experience in business development, sales, and lead generation on both the client and agency side.

Today, as AVC’s Business Development Consultant, Rolando focuses on lead generation with Philippine brands, companies, and medium-sized Filipino-owned businesses in Canada and the USA. Aside from talking business, don’t be afraid to talk golf to Rolando too. His backswing is as smooth as his follow-through being a single handicap player.

Bitten by the travel bug, Megha loves exploring new places. But perhaps you should hold on to the map when you travel with her because Megha confesses to having a poor sense of direction. We don’t mind getting lost with her because Megha’s perpetual curiosity about everything around her is infectious!

Her inquisitive nature and propensity to push the limits towards challenges made Megha the Best Client Servicing Person for two years in a row at Isobar India, winning Gold in 2018 and 2019. She has worked on 360-degree marketing campaigns: from traditional to on-ground activation to digital marketing and most recently integrated planning for brands (which excites her the most).

Megha is also a strong advocate of digital-first strategic planning. She has brought her A-game for local and global brands such as Apple, Panasonic, Renault, OPPO, OnePlus, Burberry, Grohe, American Standard, Royal Enfield Global, OLX, Colorbar USA, and MakeMyTrip.

Yes, there’s no stopping Megha. She now brings her talent to AVC as an Account Manager.

Ainee is a triple threat: straddling between business, creative, and media for several years.

She worked for advertising giants such as Ogilvy and Publicis and has dabbled into public relations via Grayscale and MINT PR. Ainee has managed and executed traditional, digital, influencer, and even celebrity campaigns too! Bringing her talent to global food and beverage brands such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Pepsi, 7UP, and consumer electronic brands like Samsung and Huawei.

Ainee is born in Pakistan but has lived in Nepal and the United Kingdom before settling in Canada. Her dream is to spend her golden years on a farm, surrounded by her furry friends.

For now, Ainee will be spending her days in the city at the AVC HQ as Account Manager.