Hasta La Creative!

Ronald Ng joined Publicis Groupe’s DigitasLBi in January as North America chief creative officer. He came from Omnicom’s BBDO & Proximity network where he had been for more than a decade, having worked in its Malaysia, New York and Singapore offices. In 2011, while exec VP/exec creative director at BBDO New York, his team’s Kinect-powered interactive installation for Autism Speaks was added to the New York Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.

Ad Age caught up with him to this week and gleaned some fun facts for this week’s edition of Six Things.

1. He developed a pronounced case of sticky fingers at age four. Though his description of that phase goes back and forth between “kleptomaniac tendencies” and “I was just resourceful at a very young age,” one thing he’s not so fuzzy on is that he got caught. “Mom opened a can of whoopass,” he said. Two things were established that day — 1) that he would never take anything he didn’t actually work for 2) his perennial fear of his mother’s wrath.

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