HANNY KUSUMAWATI, Head
Hanny has more than 7 years experience in both corporate communications and marketing communications industry. In Raconteur, she’s focusing in helping companies utilize social media to find and tell their stories; making it an indispensable part of their overall business strategy. As the event manager of Indonesia’s first national-scale blogger gathering Pesta Blogger 2007-2009 she has established close contacts with Indonesia’s most prominent bloggers and netters.
Hanny is also the founder of an award-winning online social movement, Coin a Chance!, and has been invited as speakers, trainers, and discussion facilitators in different social media and technology events, including Pakistan’s First International Social Media Summit in Karachi and Tech Camp Jakarta. She is also delivering social media trainings for corporations/brands who would like to know more about social media as a tool to help businesses achieving their long-term objective.
Hanny holds a BA in Communications Studies from The London School of Public Relations—Jakarta. She loves to read, write, blog, bake, sketch, travel, play guitar and enjoy a nice cup of coffee. She tweets as @beradadisini.
JONATHAN TENGGARA, Manager
Jonathan is the person who decipher numbers and let companies make sense of all the graphs, charts and statistics when it comes to social media. In Raconteur, he is in charge of Data Analysis, Digital Technology, Search Engine Marketing, and Social Media Monitoring. He also deliver hands-on trainings to front-liners on how to use social media for different purposes: from monitoring conversations during crisis to handling complaints.
Jonathan holds a BSBA in Information System from Suffolk University, Boston, USA. He started his career with Spidersplat Inc., as a Junior SEM Consultant where he advised Spidersplat’s clients on how to optimize their websites search result on search engine. He then moved to Cheng & Tsui as a Website & Technology Specialist where he co-built an E-commerce website. Before joining Raconteur, he worked as a Wireline Junior Field Engineer at Schlumberger Limited, Oman.
Jonathan loves hanging out, playing PlayStation, watching soccer match, taking care of Raconteur’s goldfishes and catching up with the latest gadget (read: spend on it). He tweets as @jtenggara.
SNEZANA BRODJONEGORO, Associate
In Raconteur, Nena is the one who writes your stories and analyzing your social media performance. She has been working on several social media campaign including US Embassy Jakarta (Obama’s visit), Microsoft Partners in Learning, Citibank, Wyeth, as well as the joint program of Citi Success Fund & Hope Foundation. Nena holds an MA in Science, Technology and Society from Linköping University, Sweden. She is probably the only communications consultant in Indonesia that speaks Swedish.
Prior to joining Raconteur, Nena had been working as freelance interpreter for various companies such as UNDP, WHO, and Nielsen Indonesia. She was also senior facilitator at Cross Cultural Communication Center. While obtaining her degree in Sweden, she became the president for the International Students Association for a year.
Nena loves to read, shop, bake, travel, scrapbook, eat (desserts!), watch movies, and jump around. She tweets as @snezanasb.
NADIA SABRINA, Associate
In Raconteur, she’s the one behind most of our creative undertakings: from online-hunting race to increasing sales via online competition, from designing your social media profile page to coming up with online quizzes that makes its way to Twitter’s trending topic.
Nadia, who goes by the pet name of Nanath, has practically done it all. She has helped our marketing communications clients to find and tell their stories in such a fun and compelling way. This includes Es Teler 77, Coca-Cola Indonesia, and the award-winning AXIS. Nanath is also a busy-bee on the Net. She owns an online boutique and runs a blog on education with over 3000 fans; she’s passionate about fashion photography and runs a fashion blog; plus she’s having her own YouTube channel where she does cover version of popular songs. She’s also one of the first members of ClubCoee Indonesia—an online gaming club with more than 40,000 members.
Nanath holds a BA in Communications from Padjadjaran University. She loves being online, singing, playing guitar, taking pictures, shopping for clothes, editing movies, and making funny noises. She tweets as @nanathnadia.
MUHAMMAD DAUD, Associate
Daud is focusing in managing several corporate clients, including Putera Sampoerna Foundation and Liga Primer Indonesia. This includes listening to online conversations, analyzing the level of engagement, and recommending the best actions for our clients to move forward.
Daud holds a BA from University of Indonesia, after completing his thesis on social media usage for celebrity’s personal branding. He’s majoring in Communication Studies and specializing in Public Relations. Daud is the first winner of Indonesian Debate Olimpiade Ilmiah Mahasiswa Universitas Indonesia (2009) as well as the National Public Relations Contest organized by Universitas Sebelas Maret (2010). Showing interest in politics and student activism, Daud joined the Student Executive Council of the Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia. He was a staff member of the Social and Political Strategic Studies Department (2008) and head of the Public Relations Department (2010).
Daud loves following political issues, reading, watching good movies, listening to music and watching soccer games (Manchester United!). He tweets as @muhammad_daud.
JAMES NORRIS, Design & Web Development Specialist
Graduating from Cornwall College, James has over 7 years experience in the communications and design industry. During his time in London James worked for corporate communications agency Excite Communications where he handled some of Europe’s biggest companies such as Jones Lang LaSalle, GKN and Cinven. He was also commissioned to do various works for the likes of Ogilvy and Redworks.
In Maverick, James focuses on website design and development, print design and other design related disciplines. He is also an evangelist for website accessibility, with the end users experience at the forefront of his mind. Whatever peoples circumstances, be it their hardware, internet connectivity, culture, native language, physical or mental ability James believes the internet should try its hardest to be accessible to all. James’ approach to design is firmly routed in communication and user experience. The most effective strategy is to build up from a solid information architecture foundation. He does not believe in ‘design for design’s sake’.
For James, the main purpose of good design is to communicate your ideas clearly and concisely, to engage with your audience and to provide them with an informative and pleasurable experience. James loves surfing, diving, making music, drawing and reading as many books as possible on physics, cosmology and quantum theory. He tweets as @norris_in_indo.
DANIEL RAHADIAN NUGROHO, Associate
In Raconteur, Daniel is focusing in web/graphic design and multimedia. He has helped designing websites and other promotion materials for clients like Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna, Es Teler 77, AXIS, and Liga Primer Indonesia. He has also experienced doing real-time social media monitoring for crisis clients, including sending alerts and daily reports, capturing insights and measuring sentiments.
Daniel holds a BA from Tarumanagara University. Having worked as intern with us, he continues to develop his professional career as an associate.
Daniel is a rugby fanatic and has been a member of the Indonesian National Rugby teams since 2005. He also loves designing, watching sport-related movies, and listening to music. He tweets as @drnugroho.
ASTARI LAKSMIWATI, Associate
Atri is the geeky entity mapping her way deep into to the 2.0 world at Raconteur. Scooping out upbeat and fresh idea from digital resources gem on daily basis, she finds them an ultimate curiousity-quencher. In Raconteur, Atri has helped clients like Google, Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna and Citibank to tell their stories and build community engagement via social media. Reliving her amateur-editing job at Unpar Radio Station back in college, she desires to cultivate and explore visual experiments on various Raconteur’s upcoming movie projects.
Atri holds BA from Parahyangan Catholic University (2007), majoring in International Relations. She swap the high politics for a taste of entertainment industry at dbb/Vertigo event organizer (2008) where she mostly travels to several cities for national music competition. It also led her to digital music business as Music Content Manager at one of the biggest content provider Kreatif Bersama (2010).
Always have been a genuine right brainer, Atri religiously attracted to art, movies, music, pop culture, creative activities, geek gadgets and gizmos. Those include leaving footprints of movie experiences on her blog, have an obsessive compulsive to her music playlist, jumping to one music gigs to another, running an online fashion store with her friends, and doodling when she feels like it. She tweets as @chroniclea3.
YUMA MAHARANI, Associate
As a Gemini, Yuma has a lot of energy and she’s also interested in a lot of different things. Drawn into broadcasting since such a young age, in 2003 Yuma leaped into the radio station industry. Her experiences include radio announcing, scriptwriting, primary-show handling as a producer, music playlist managing as a Music Director and she has also been doing voice-over for 7 years. She is the voice behind the TV show Sport 7 Malam on Trans|7 and she’s also occasionally announcing for U FM Radio Jakarta.
Yuma holds a BSc on Earth Sciences from Institut Teknologi Bandung. With her education background in science and her working experience in the media, one of her dreams is to become an inspiring science journalist. Her concern lies specifically in improving people’s awareness about natural disaster and preparing them to face it. Yuma is also a professional gamer. She plays MMOFPS game and often competes in different official tournaments with her gaming team. She is proud to be one of the few female members in a well-known and high-ranked gaming clan.
In Raconteur, Yuma has been involved in managing several high-profile clients such as Coca-Cola and Google. Her strong network with people in Indonesia’s music/entertainment/gaming industry always comes in handy for the Raconteurs.
Yuma loves to read books, write on her blog, spill her inner thoughts about almost everything on Twitter and have a stress-releasing therapy by making music playlists. She tweets as @yumaharani.
BASTIAN BRAM, Information Technology Specialist
Bram doesn’t have a degree in IT. And that’s exactly why you’ll be surprised to see how his hobby and passion in IT has brought him to where he is right now.
Prior to joining Maverick, Bram had spent 7 years working with one of Indonesia’s largest news portal, Detik.com. He was working on HTML, web-based news system, CMS, Coldfusion, MSSQL, PHP, MYSQL, mobile ad, and mobile interaction. His experience landed him a job as a web consultant from 2007-2009, working on several video portals, and then from 2010-2011 he was concentrating on the development of a live-chat platform for one of Indonesia’s well-known cigarette company. He had also involved in web development project for jurnalparlemen.com and TMC Polda Metro.
In Maverick/Raconteur, Bram becomes our Communication Technology Specialist, and he takes part mainly in developing websites and applications for our clients, such as Putera Sampoerna Foundation, Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna, Coca-Cola, and many more. He is also the guy who helped us in building our own social media monitoring tools, that have proven to come in handy especially for crisis clients. Apart from simply developing websites based on client’s requests, Bram took a step further and actually inspect the IT resources a client already has and advise them on the most effective and efficient ways of developing their websites, applications, and other online/digital platform.
Apart from being a (spaghetti) coder, Bram likes to ride his old scooter and listening to music.
