Kim Walker

Kim Walker is the founder and CEO of SILVER Group (www.silvergroup.asia) a business consultancy that helps business and government capitalise on the ageing demographic by making them age-friendly to their customers, their citizens and their employees.

His opinions and blog on this subject are much sought after by business and the media alike and has appeared repeatedly on CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia.

Kim enjoyed a long and highly successful career in the advertising industry. Prior to establishing SILVER, he held top management positions in the Asia Pacific region including COO of Carat APAC then President and CEO of M&C Saatchi Asia. In these roles he managed the expansion of the global networks into Asian markets including Korea, Philippines, China, Taiwan, Thailand and India through the acquisition of companies and establishment of new businesses.

He is an 'international' having lived and worked outside his native Australia for most of his life including leadership positions in Singapore, Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo. He is currently based in Singapore.

Kim is a serial entrepreneur, with three successful pioneering start-ups to his credit. The first was a strategic planning consultancy in Japan, which he later sold to Aegis PLC. He is Founder & Chairman of Aprais (www.aprais.com), the global leader of B2B company performance evaluations.

He is an internationally awarded keynote speaker.

A philanthropist, Kim was among the first wave of volunteers to reach the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia in January 2005, under the Singapore flag.

He is an adventurer, having trekked the upper reaches of the Himalayas five times, throughout Patagonia and most recently, the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa with one of his two spectacular daughters. Kim is also a singer/songwriter and has released two self written albums.

Marketing to the Ageing Consumer is Kim's first book.