Summary
Chao Gao is an Executive Creative Director and multidisciplinary designer with 11 years of experience shaping digital transformation, brand strategy, and new product development across automotive, telecom, banking, healthcare, transportation and charity sectors. With a rare blend of engineering, HCI research, art curation and UX practice, he leads experience teams to reconnect brands with audiences through sustainable, future-focused solutions. He has advanced through senior roles at R/GA, Publicis Sapient and Dentsu Creative to his current leadership at Dentsu Lab, combining agency rigor with studio entrepreneurship as founder of ChaoLink Design Studio and co-founder of ARCHE. Known for bridging creative vision and technical feasibility, he brings executive education from Cambridge Judge and a curator’s eye—he’s also a weekend painter who applies artistic sensibility to product and service design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education, Executive Education at Cambridge Judge Business School
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Jinan University
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Technology, Sydney
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
French, English, Chinese