Managing Director, APAC, Minneapolis-St. Paul & Chicago & Midwest
Kathleen DesRosiers
Kathleen has more than 30 years of communications agency and recruiting experience, nearly half of which has been in Asia Pacific. She has served as a Vice President for FleishmanHillard, the founding Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller Taiwan, China General Manager of The Hoffman Agency and Senior Director for Text100 in Beijing. She has managed talent acquisition inside agencies and externally for agencies and corporations. She understands what drives successful talent acquisition in diverse and developing markets. Kathleen draws on her own communications experience, which spans corporate communications, public affairs, and consumer and B2B marketing, to identify and assess candidates. Having worked in diverse cultural environments, Kathleen is adept at matching both candidates’ hard and soft skills to clients’ needs. Thank you. Xièxiè . Mhgòi. Arigatō. Gamsahamnida.
Kathleen DesRosiers
Kathleen has more than 30 years of communications agency and recruiting experience, nearly half of which has been in Asia Pacific. She has served as a Vice President for FleishmanHillard, the founding Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller Taiwan, China General Manager of The Hoffman Agency and Senior Director for Text100 in Beijing. She has managed talent acquisition inside agencies and externally for agencies and corporations. She understands what drives successful talent acquisition in diverse and developing markets. Kathleen draws on her own communications experience, which spans corporate communications, public affairs, and consumer and B2B marketing, to identify and assess candidates. Having worked in diverse cultural environments, Kathleen is adept at matching both candidates’ hard and soft skills to clients’ needs. Thank you. Xièxiè . Mhgòi. Arigatō. Gamsahamnida.
Kathleen DesRosiers
Kathleen has more than 30 years of communications agency and recruiting experience, nearly half of which has been in Asia Pacific. She has served as a Vice President for FleishmanHillard, the founding Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller Taiwan, China General Manager of The Hoffman Agency and Senior Director for Text100 in Beijing. She has managed talent acquisition inside agencies and externally for agencies and corporations. She understands what drives successful talent acquisition in diverse and developing markets. Kathleen draws on her own communications experience, which spans corporate communications, public affairs, and consumer and B2B marketing, to identify and assess candidates. Having worked in diverse cultural environments, Kathleen is adept at matching both candidates’ hard and soft skills to clients’ needs. Thank you. Xièxiè . Mhgòi. Arigatō. Gamsahamnida.
Grew up on Lake Wobegon or so it seemed.
Went to China for a three-month assignment; stayed for nine years.
Chinese name: Dai Ruo Shi, which means “like a poet.”
Chinese nickname: Da Jie Tou, which means “female mob boss.”