SINGAPORE — Wachsman has promoted Asia Pacific managing director Danny Phan to chief strategy officer.

In this new global role, Phan will have responsibilities across the firm’s regional offices and will spearhead Wachsman’s global growth strategy. In particular, Phan will expand the firm’s intellectual property and service offerings, as well as overseeing talent strategy and cross-border client mandates.

Phan is the first addition to Wachsman’s C-suite since the firm’s 2015 inception.

“Now in our fifth year of operations as the leading name in blockchain communications and consulting, we've bore witness to a great deal of growth and change,” said founder and CEO David Wachsman. “To stay agile, we've established a new guiding vision to anchor our future as a firm that specifically caters to business leaders shaping a new world order. Danny has the extraordinary combination of brilliance, vision, and management expertise to lead a sophisticated organization in the next stage of our journey, as we continue to progress as a company and as a consultancy.”

Phan has been leading Wachsman’s Asia-Pacific operation for the last 18 months. Before assuming that role, he spent more than four years at Teneo, where he served as the firm’s Southeast Asia regional managing director. Over the course of his two-decade career, Phan also has held leadership roles at Burson-Marsteller and Ogilvy Public Relations.