ABOUT US

Able Ads was formed to bring together a pool of experienced expatriate talent and have these experienced people lead and mentor small teams of one or two highly qualified local nationals. In this way, we ensure each project draws upon years of experience, current high-level technical skills, receives constant quality control - and provides clients with ready access to someone they can relate to in terms of language and culture.

Our Team Most outsource providers have a large local workforce crammed into an office full of little cubicles with only one or two experience people overseeing. Our teams consist of an experience western expatriate and one or two highly qualified local citizens.

Tom Mewes, CEO

Tom has long been active in developing material for a diverse group of organizations: multi-national aerospace/defense companies, major oil and gas companies, to local clubs and organizations. His track record includes hundreds of business reports and presentations, close to two hundred technical and training books and manuals, and he has lost track of all of the brochures and newsletter he’s written, but it is certainly into four figures.

Tom lists his greatest asset as being able to write to the target audience, whether hard or soft sales in brochures, techno speak in maintenance manuals, easy comprehension in training materials, or light-hearted banter in organizations newsletters.

Cob Jobbins, Senior Editor

Cob decided early that a routine 9 to 5 lifestyle was not for him. Interested in media and looking for his niche he started in radio, ending up as a producer, announcer and copywriter in Sydney and in outback Queensland. Headhunted to the travel industry, he embarked on another chapter of his career by taking on challenges in sales, airport operations and marketing before settling into more mainstream advertising agency work.

Cob’s never ending search for new and better ways to create more effective advertising for his clients led him from Sydney to Asia, and over the course of the next 10-years he worked for agencies in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Korea, earning himself a brace of awards and comments.

Al Konkolesky, Senior Website Designer

A former US Marine, and Factory Worker, Al started graphic design when an injury forced him to leave the factory. He was always interested in computers and was an art major all through school, so it came naturally for him. He now has over a decade specializing in Graphic and Website Design work, and has his own design company, Web Dungeon Designs.

Shane Stevens, Sales Coordinator