Business Team
Elroy Ramantan
Business Lead
Builds client partnerships and networks, and opens doors to new opportunities across the region.
About
Elroy Ramantan is AICREATIVV's Business Lead. He joined the strategic partnership team in 2023 after three years as a studio manager at Avenue 41, and he connects easily with people from every background. For clients, that means listening first, then helping turn complex ideas into stories people care about.
He was a marketing strategist on the National Theatre Festival Brunei 2023, and he now co-facilitates the team's weekly business bootcamps with Imamull Qhaeer. Beyond the studio he speaks about storytelling and culture: at LLC in Indonesia in 2025, on a panel at the Indigenous Exchange Festival in Miri as part of Borneo Altered Natives, and at the Pontianak Biennial 2026, where he brought books to help build a library.
A YSEALI fellow since 2019, Elroy believes culture should be treated as living heritage, never as decoration. Around the office he hosts Thai Thursday movie nights. His motto: kill the cringe before the cringe kills you.
What Elroy does
- Client partnerships: Builds and looks after client relationships, from the first conversation to a long-term partnership.
- New opportunities: Finds new opportunities and collaborations for the studio across Brunei and the region.
- Problems into ideas: Helps turn client problems into ideas and stories that move people to act.
- Team bootcamps: Co-facilitates weekly business bootcamps on communication, collaboration and critical thinking.
Recent wins
- 2026, Win: Pontianak Biennial 2026, Travelled to Pontianak with books to help build a library supported by National Gallery Singapore.
- 2026, Win: Relaunched weekly business bootcamps, Co-facilitates Friday bootcamps with Imamull Qhaeer, with the team split into four groups.
- 2026, Role: Market Seni's Mini Illustration Lane (MS-MiLL), Curator, Rimba Point Exhibition Hall, Bandar Seri Begawan
- 2026, Feature: Exhibited: Global Artivism Month, South Africa, south-africa
- 2026, Feature: Exhibited: Bucharest miniCOLLAGE Biennale, Bucharest, bucharest
- 2026, Feature: Exhibited: Pattani Biennale, PSU, Pattani, pattani
- 2026, Project: Today (Off-Brief 001), AICREATIVV
- 2025, Win: Panelist at IXF 2025 in Miri, Spoke on the panel 'How Far is Too Far?' about culture, commerce and respect for Indigenous voices.
- 2025, Win: Storytelling session at LLC, Indonesia, Taught researchers and policymakers how to turn complex ideas into stories that move people.
- 2025, Role: ART Borneo: Borders, Breathing Worlds, Co-curator, with EmDyeaah, West Kalimantan Museum, Pontianak
- 2025, Role: Berkumpul Borneo, Curator, Sabah Heritage Village, Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu
- 2025, Feature: Exhibited: ART Borneo, West Kalimantan Museum, Pontianak, pontianak
- 2025, Feature: Exhibited: IXF (Indigenous Exchange Festival), Alter/Space, Miri, miri
- 2025, Story: Bangkok, Culture, and the Art of Creative Confidence, AICREATIVV blog
- 2024, Role: MYY Living Arts UnConference & Festival, Co-curator, curator for the Brunei region, Miri, Sarawak
- 2024, Role: Dan Lain Lain, Curator, Creative Space Gallery, Bandar Seri Begawan
- 2024, Role: Art for Change: Palestine, Curator, Bandar Seri Begawan
- 2024, Feature: Exhibited: World Youth Festival, Sirius, Sochi, sochi
- 2024, Feature: Exhibited: CONTOH, Creative Space Gallery, Bandar Seri Begawan, bandar-seri-begawan
- 2023, Win: ASEAN Foundation Influencer 2023, ASEAN Foundation
- 2023, Feature: Exhibited: Borneo Altered Natives, HAUS, Kuching, kuching
- 2023, Project: Lifestyle, DST
- 2023, Project: National Theatre Festival Brunei (2023), 247 Studios
- 2023, Story: The Head and Heart of a YSEALI Fellow, Elroy Ramantan, AICREATIVV blog
- 2023, Story: Elroy Joins the Strategic Partnership Team at AICREATIVV, AICREATIVV blog
- 2022, Win: Brunei's Most Inspiring LinkedIn Icons, 50 selected profiles of 2022
- 2022, Win: Outstanding Participant, Responsible Youth Leadership Program 2021 to 2022, Responsible Youth Leadership Program
- 2022, Talk: Climate Futures #1: Cultures, Climate Crisis and Disappearing Ecologies, NTU CCA Singapore and Konnect ASEAN
- 2022, Talk: The Collective Friday Feature, The Collective
- 2022, Talk: AdvocaSEA on Inclusivity in Environmental Conservation, SOA Brunei
- 2022, Feature: Exhibited: Climate Futures, ASEAN Foundation, Jakarta, jakarta
- 2022, Feature: Exhibited: Young ASEAN Storytellers, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Bogor, bogor
- 2022, Feature: Exhibited: DALAM, Think & Tink, Kuching, kuching
- 2021, Win: Brunei's Most Inspiring LinkedIn Icons, 50 selected profiles of 2021
- 2021, Win: Minority Report: YSEALI Seeds for the Future grant, US Department of State
- 2021, Win: Community Partner, SEAYouth Festival 2021, ASEAN Youth Forum
- 2021, Role: Bor(Neo) The Project: Representation Matters, Curator and moderator, with Borneo Bengkel, Online, across Borneo
- 2021, Talk: Culturally Conscious Leadership, Global Shapers Community (BSB)
- 2021, Talk: Embarking the Sustainability Journey, Schlumberger
- 2021, Talk: Ask Our Fellow Weekend, US Embassy Brunei
- 2021, Talk: Not Alone: Let's Talk, Australian High Commission
- 2021, Talk: Unity in Diversity, ASEAN Youth Advocates Network Brunei
- 2021, Talk: Generation Restoration, ASEAN Youth Advocates Network Brunei
- 2021, Talk: Representation Matters, Borneo Bengkel
- 2021, Talk: The Big Idea: Indigenous Minority Communities in Borneo, US Mission to ASEAN
- 2021, Talk: Reinventing Indigenous Bornean Designs, Our Virtual Studio (OVS Art Talk)
- 2021, Feature: Exhibited: 37th Brunei National Day, Yayasan Centre, Bandar Seri Begawan, bandar-seri-begawan
- 2020, Win: US Embassy Cultural Grant: Minority Report, US Embassy Brunei
- 2020, Win: YSEALI Spring Academic Fellow, Civic Engagement, University of Nebraska Omaha
- 2020, Role: Mini Bornean Indigenous Film Showcase, Curator, Bandar Seri Begawan
- 2020, Feature: Exhibited: Cultural Reset (EMERGE 9), Creative Space Gallery, Bandar Seri Begawan, bandar-seri-begawan
Projects
- AICREATIVV - Today (Off-Brief 001) (2026)
- DST - Lifestyle (2023)
- 247 Studios - National Theatre Festival Brunei (2023) (2023)
On the blog
- Bangkok, Culture, and the Art of Creative Confidence
- Elroy Ramantan on Culture Without Compromise
- Storytelling with Purpose: Elroy at LLC, Indonesia
- The Head and Heart of a YSEALI Fellow, Elroy Ramantan
- Elroy Joins the Strategic Partnership Team at AICREATIVV
- July 2026: Welcomes, Goodbyes, and Everything In Between
- More Than A Market:Market Seni’s Mini Illustration Lane 2026
- The Year, Starting Here: January 2026 Highlights
- Reflections, Reunions, and Resets: October at AICREATIVV
- From Business to Media: Aiman’s Creative Leap
- History Made Personal: Batrisyia Graduates
- Threads of Heritage, Bonds of Teamwork
- From Search Result, To Office Visit
- Frames of Us at AICREATIVV
- A Night of Gratitude, Growth, and AICREATIVV’s Future
- Congratulations IBTE Graduates!
- Aiman Puts Business Theory into Practice as an AICREATIVV Intern
- Amar Ventures into the World of Business as AICREATIVV's Intern
- Behind the Curtains of a Theatre Festival: 3 Lessons Learned
- ‘Sonnets and Songs’ Brings AICREATIVV on an Emotional Journey
- AICREATIVV Comes Full Circle at the UBD Startup Centre Open House
- AICREATIVV Celebrates Royal Brunei’s 48th Anniversary of Their Maiden Flight
- AICREATIVV Gets Inspired at the LUMEN Exhibition
- The Clash of Ages: Millennials vs Gen Z
- AICREATIVV Expands From 2 Members to 7!
In the Spellbook
- Spellbook #72: I don't approve holidays
- Spellbook #71: Never touched a camera. Then Korea.
- Spellbook #70: We broke our own website
- Spellbook #69: We didn't get the project
- Spellbook #67: Nobody got here alone (Part 3/3)
- Spellbook #66: Nobody remembers (Part 2/3)
- Spellbook #65: Nobody clapped (Part 1/3)
- Spellbook #64: Before you break the rules, learn them
- Spellbook #62: You would've seen the red cars
- Spellbook #61: They're looking at nothing
- Spellbook #59: Look dumb, seriously
- Spellbook #57: When did this become normal?
- Spellbook #56: Two iPads and a screen
- Spellbook #52: 10k followers. 0 Sales.
- Spellbook #51: Great portfolios don’t mean great teams
- Spellbook #49: 3 letters that changed how I approach everything
- Spellbook #48: Have you ever just stopped thinking?
- Spellbook #47: 3 habits that destroys team morale
- Spellbook #46: We had one chance to get this right
- Spellbook #44: We keep starting over without realizing it
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