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Blake has been Managing Director of Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo since 2010 where he stewards the office as a unique independent force of creativity in the advertising industry in Japan. Prior to Wieden+Kennedy, Blake was SVP at Digitas in New York, and began his career as a strategy consultant in Tokyo working for clients such as NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone and J-Phone. Blake spent 3 years in South Korea in the Samsung Group Chairman's Office as an internal strategy consultant, and during this time established & led Samsung Mobile's award-winning global digital marketing team. He holds a BA in Japanese from the University of London, an MBA from INSEAD, and completed executive education at Harvard Business School.