At Cuttlefish Digital, diversity is our superpower.

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Cuttlefish Digital’s impactful campaigns are driven by our team’s cultural diversity, distinct perspectives, comprehensive skill set and a decade of experience. We work across six countries, are fluent in eight languages and comprise nine nationalities. By working together, we make the most of key capacities, local expertise and wide-ranging resources to deliver impactful, globally-aware campaigns

OUR TEAM

Tom Ganderton,
Director

Wasana Kumanuwong,
Senior Operations Manager

Hanna Song,
Senior Digital Manager

Emi Hayashi,
Senior Digital Strategist

Safir Soeparna,
Creative Manager

Eileen Lui,
Managing Editor

Sunadda Samana,
Senior Insights Specialist

Jinda Wedel,
Senior Content Strategist

Sirilak Phakdee,
Operations Associate

Rapasphong Phukasmas,
Digital Engagement Associate

Win Myat Ko Ko,
Digital Marketing Associate

Wakako Kobayashi,
Digital Engagement Associate

Chohee Kim,
Senior Digital Associate

Rudraya Gupta,
Design Associate

Manita Chantaharn,
Junior Insights Specialist

Illia Yarovyi,
Multimedia Designer

Thanyaluck Korwanidkun,
Design Associate

Cris Sto. Domingo,
Program Manager

Gilad Levi,
Finance Manager

Vin Prabhu,
Content Manager

Max Pratamalai,
Accounting Associate

Emi Hayashi
Senior Digital Strategist
Tokyo, Japan

Emi's passion for making an impact drew her from a career in publishing, where she was an editor and writer, to environmental activism at Greenpeace. Over the course of 8 years, she took on roles ranging from Digital Content Creator to Engagement Manager. Now she leverages analytical insights to engage the Japanese public with digital campaigns and headline-grabbing content launches.

Nicha Hemanidisakorn
Finance and Admin Assistant
Bangkok, Thailand

Nicha is a passionate traveler with a career background in operations at various NGOs. After several years’ work in finance, administrative work, and project management, including time as a program assistant at a United Nations agency and other roles at Recoftc and CIAI (Centro Italiano Aiuti per l’Infanzia) in operations, she joined Cuttlefish Digital in 2021.

Rapasphong

Rapasphong Phukasmas
Digital Engagement Associate
Bangkok, Thailand

Rapasphong was born in Beungkan, a province bordering Lao and Thailand, and grew up speaking both countries’ languages. After entering the non-profit arena in Northern Thailand, he has taken on roles ranging from field assistant for a youth empowerment organization to project manager for human rights campaigns. He is interested in art as political expression and freedom of expression.

Manita Chantaharn
Junior Associate, Insights
and Engagement Systems
Bangkok, Thailand

Manita is an educator at heart with a passion for gender equality and fighting disparities in the educational system. While earning her Bachelor of Education degree from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, she taught secondary school English and studied data analysis and statistics. She joins Cuttlefish Digital as part of the Insights and Engagement Systems team.

Thanyaluck “Kate” Korwanidkun
Junior Designer
Samut Prakan, Thailand

Thirteen years of graphic design work have seen Kate steadfastly focused on her passion for problem-solving using art and design as well as branding. Throughout her career, she has designed and directed artwork for charity projects, a Bangkok-based social enterprise and a firm in Melbourne. When the visual and communication design graduate isn’t championing environmental issues such as waste management, she can be found enjoying her favorite hobbies: reading and baking.

Cris Sto. Domingo
Traffic Manager
Manila, Philippines

Cris has always seen herself as a curious mix of social science, media work, and advocacy. Her degree in Sociology served her well as a researcher and producer for the Philippines’ most awarded documentary program, I-Witness. For a decade, she produced development stories focusing on literacy, health, and the environment. She has also worked with NGOs advocating for gender justice, democracy, and civil and political rights in Southeast Asia

Gilad Levi, CPA
Finance Manager
Phuket, Thailand

Israeli-Australian Gilad has traversed the globe in his roles as financial manager and CFO. Through nearly three decades, he lived and worked in Africa, United States, Australia, Switzerland and Israel. At his current home in Southern Thailand, he also enjoys the tropical weather, music and cooking.

Sirilak Phakdee
Administrative Assistant
Bangkok, Thailand

Sirilak joins Cuttlefish Digital with over a decade of regional experience in operations, administration and project management for regional and global companies such as HP, FedEx, Dell and AIG. Though she is originally from Northern Thailand, she has split her time between two megacities–Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok–and now counts film and trekking as her passions.

Karmela Tordecilla
Content Creator
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A creative storyteller at heart, Karmela has written and produced multimedia content for CNN Philippines, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and a few other nonprofits since finishing journalism school in 2013. When Karmela isn’t creating content for work, she spends her time painting, journaling, and reading novels.

Beatriz Warleta
Digital Mobilisation Campaigner
Manila, Philippines

After working on digital campaigns within the fashion industry and managing her own sustainable fashion business in Spain, Bea joins Cuttlefish to use her skills as a digital communicator in the hopes of helping change the narrative around climate change. When she's not working on a campaign, she's doing yoga or walking her sausage dog, Uma.

Min Wyat Ko Ko
Digital Marketing Associate
Bangkok, Thailand

After working on digital campaigns within the fashion industry and managing her own sustainable fashion business in Spain, Bea joins Cuttlefish to use her skills as a digital communicator in the hopes of helping change the narrative around climate change. When she's not working on a campaign, she's doing yoga or walking her sausage dog, Uma.

Win Myat Ko Ko
Digital Marketing Associate
Bangkok, Thailand

Win Myat joins Cuttlefish Digital with a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from James Cook University, Australia, and several years of hands-on experience in performance marketing and paid advertising. His work in Myanmar’s non-profit sector saw him work within a range of essential causes, including HIV prevention, democracy, transitional justice, and media freedom.

Illia Yarovyi
Mutimedia Designer
Poltava, Ukraine

In his decade of experience in the design industry, Illia has worked with a diverse range of clients across the e-commerce, startup and NGO sectors as a graphic/web designer and video editor. His Masters in Ecology moved him to create a digital air pollution monitoring system, “Oasis”. Illiya is a problem-solver at heart, and strives to invent, experiment and break a few rules now and again. In his spare time, he travels and creates original designs.

Ashley Crowther
Associate Online Editor
Melbourne, Australia

Ashley has reported on and photographed key stories on climate change, social development and other issues throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands for nearly a decade. He has worked for a range of publications such as The Financial Times, Vice and The New Republic, and NGOs such as UN Foundation and Green Climate Fund. As the author and lead photographer of “Our Dark Materials: Black Carbon & the Himalayas,” he considers storytelling and on-the-ground reporting as some of his major passions.

Rudraya

Rudraya Gupta
Design Associate
Goa, India

Rudraya is a communication and visual designer specializing in branding, digital design, and illustration. His mission is to bridge communication gaps in the development sector with clean and impactful design - his signature aesthetic. Apart from speculating about the latest design and tech, Rudraya is deeply engaged with animal welfare organizations while living in coastal Goa, India.

James Lorenz
Director
NSW, Australia

James has over 20 years of experience in senior roles for global non-profits. His work spans campaigns such as patents with ​​Médecins Sans Frontières and palm oil with Greenpeace. He is a relentless optimist who believes that we will see genuine climate action if enough of us direct targeted scrutiny at the corporate world.

Wasana Kumanuwong
Operations
Manager Doha, Qatar

Globally-minded Wasana has lived in Thailand, England, and Qatar and is backed by over 15 years of experience in operations, administration, office management, and finance management. Prior to Cuttlefish Digital, she worked in event and media production for several years. In addition to Cuttlefish Digital’s climate transition aims, Wasana advocates for gender equality and anti-human trafficking initiatives.

Hanna Song
Campaigns and Projects Manager
Washington, D.C.

After earning degrees in International Studies and Development Studies, Hanna went on to gain several years’ experience in the non-profit sector. The multi-cultural campaigner has lived and studied in Seoul, Tokyo, Barcelona, and Texas. When she isn’t working on coal financing within the climate change space and Fair Finance, she devotes her time to cooking and baking.

Safir Soeparna
Senior Creative Producer
Bangkok, Thailand

Safir has nearly a decade of experience in human rights and environmental causes in Asia. Before joining Cuttlefish Digital, he worked as a graphic designer and/or creative lead for the UN Secretariat, UNDP, and APCOM for the sexual health and rights of populations at greater risk of HIV and people living with HIV. Safir is a creative at heart with a passion for acrobatic arts, a love of design, and a deep interest in World War II history.

Eileen Lui
Senior Editor
Phnom Penh,Cambodia

Eileen Lui is passionate about empowering youths and marginalized groups and ferociously champions efforts to make their voices heard. She founded SoyAi, a social enterprise in Myanmar that provides business skills training to underprivileged youths to better their lives. A trained brand communications specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the field of MarCom, she can be found training hard for her next triathlon race or an MMA fight in the wee hours of the morning.

Sunadda Samana
Senior Associate, Insights
and Engagement Systems
Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

Digital native Sunadda has an academic background in the arts and began her journey as a digital content expert. She later found her forte in digital and social media analytics, insights, and engagement systems following her work on digital campaigns as a Campaign Officer advocating for HIV testing. Now she leads the data analytics function at Cuttlefish Digital, helping campaigners use the right metrics, data, and analysis to discover meaningful insights.

Premita Singha
Senior Mobilisation Campaigner
Guwahati, India

Premita brings over 15 years of international experience across public fundraising and supporter engagement to Cuttlefish Digital. She recently established the Scaled Support team Change.org India, which sought to provide hands-on support to petition starters using the Change platform. Before that, she held senior supporter engagement roles at Jhatkaa.org, Amnesty International, and Greenpeace. Premita primarily leads the digital mobilization component of the Action Speaks Louder project.

Ying Yang
Digital Engagement Associate
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ying brings over a decade of experience in digital marketing and communication roles at the ILO, WHO, and ECPAT International. Her work has taken her around the globe from the UK to Thailand, Malaysia to Japan. Now she supports key energy finance campaigns as a digital engagement associate at Cuttlefish Digital.

Jinda Wedel
Copywriter
Bangkok,Thailand

Jinda began her career as an online lifestyle editor, then took a decade-long foray into hard news, including stints in television production, broadcast journalism, and print media. She has since turned attention to her current marketing and communications specialty within the non-profit sector. Her written work has taken her from the Czech Republic to the Maldives and covers various media formats, from social media video scripts to unforgettable landing pages.

Wakako

Wakako Kobayashi
Digital Engagement Associate
Tokyo, Japan

Wakako has a Master’s in Environmental Justice and a passion for gender equality, animal welfare, and climate change activism. Prior to joining Cuttlefish Digital, she was a campaigner at JACSES, a Japanese environmental NGO based in Tokyo, working on stopping overseas coal finance. She counts both the Philippines and Japan as home. When she isn’t leading campaigns on energy transition, she devotes her time to running and photography.

Chohee Kim
Senior Digital Marketing Associate
Melbourne, Australia

Seoul-native Chohee worked in the commercial marketing industry for a decade prior to joining Cuttlefish Digital. Her fortes in her previous Marketing Director roles include developing and managing strategy as well as directly overseeing digital campaigns. Chohee also brings social-media fluency and a finely-honed eye for digital content to her current role as Senior Digital Marketing Associate. In her spare time, Chohee can be found in the weights section at the gym.

Oluwatimilehin Odubola
Front End Developer
Lagos, Nigeria

Timi’s longtime goal of advocating for SDG13 and working on climate technologies has seen him work with a variety of organizations in the financial and non-profit sectors, from startups to mid-level companies. Now at Cuttlefish Digital, the dual-degree Computer Science and Mathematics graduate helps transform digital design into reality. In his spare time, the Clinton Global Initiative alumnus, AAL grant recipient, and Yali Africa member also plays piano, swims, and volunteers in his community.

Tom Ganderton
Director
Bangkok, Thailand

As the director, Tom guides Cuttlefish Digital in its mission to run targeted digital campaigns for non-profit clients working on climate change and clean energy. He is a seasoned campaigner and communicator with deep experience using digital tools and technology to help campaign on issues close to his heart — the climate crisis, LGBT rights, and other issues.