J. Yap   (Business Development)

A creative thinker and sagacious problem solver, J. graduated with a BA in Industrial & Organisation Psychology, Business Administration and Japanese studies. She also holds a Grad Dip and MA and is currently pursuing her PhD. Her wealth of management experience includes assisting Board of Directors (BODs) and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in corporate projects ranging from content creation, management, psychometric testing, targeted selection interviewing, and training, to business development and planning.

J’s entrepreneurial drive was honed through her years in San Francisco where she assisted an Indonesian MNC in the import and export of coffee and cocoa beans, and marketing them to the US market. She also had hands-on experience in F&B management and served her internship as a psychologist. She debut into Training & Development in 1995 and later embarked into operating her English language centres and Management Consultancy firm. Besides managing her education business, she was also engaged by local and foreign companies to help to establish Content and HR departments; write and edit travel websites; company portfolios; as well as employee and product handbooks. With J’s creative zest as well as her strong understanding of corporate communications, staffing, training, branding and marketing, she has worked effectively with clients, at various levels, to transform challenges into winning solutions.

J. is also an accomplished writer with more than 40 English assessment and Creative Writing guidebooks to her name, in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and India since year 2001. She is a fervent believer in continuous learning and relates it to a goldmine that never runs out of gold. She is a distinguished member of International Society of Poets and has achieved the Editor’s Choice Awards for outstanding Achievement in Poetry. To date, she oversees editorial and script production in Nachomotion with an unerring eye for detail. Her sincere and friendly disposition ensures that all projects are part of a refreshing and rewarding experience.

 

    K. H. Hoki   (Artist-in-residence)

Hoki graduated with a B.A in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies from National University of Singapore in 1998 and obtained a first class honours degree in Multimedia Art from University of Central England in 2002. A self-taught artist with a versatile mind, he had conceptualised and created corporate websites, designed paraphernalia for corporate branding and product launches and, assisted in the script and production of an animated series by a local start-up.

Seed, a cartoon about life in a post-apocalyptic world which was made in 3 weeks with two of his classmates, was honoured with a Merit Award (Open Category) for computer animation at Comgraph, Singapore in year 2003. Fuelled by a burning passion for filming, he wrote, directed and lensed a 20-minute short film, “The Butterfly People”. Although it was made with a paltry budget of S$1500 and backed by a cast of theatre actors, who also doubled as his crew, the film became a selected entry to the 8th Thai Short Film and Video Festival in year 2004.

Today, Hoki continues to pursue his passion for film-making under Nachomotion's label.