Astronaut has appointed Chandra Marsono as its Head of Marketing & Communication through its acquisition and hiring process of POPSkul on August 2021. Chandra is a digital advertising veteran of more than 20 years, with previous roles at Fortune & Dwi Sapta (a Dentsu Aegis Network company) as head of digital advertising and content production.
Chandra graduated with a Propedeutisch (diploma) of Marketing from Hogeschool van Utrecht, a Visual Communication degree from Pasundan University, and a Masters degree in Marketing Management from STIE Trianandra. Digital communication has been a passion for him. He started work as a website developer when he was still in high school, building one-two page websites for companies from 1995 to 2001. He was building websites and landing pages for Bayer, Roche & Indosat by the time he was 19.
Born to an education-entrepreneurial family, Chandra is also a veteran of several startups and exits. In 2002 he started Sedna, a small advertising agency consisting of freelancers. His experience in startups includes online travels, video interview apps, and video content advertising. His latest is a KOL agency called Rayu Sapa, & a certification platform called POPSkul which was acquired by Astronaut.
My father taught me that when you want to start a business, don’t overthink and just execute, learn, improve, repeat. If you don’t start now, then you will never start.
His background in education is a huge addition to Astronaut’s future plan in the education sector. He has been a lecturer for higher education institutions such as Universtas Indonesia, STIE Trianandra and Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, registered as lector in the Indonesian Ministry of Education and assessor for the Indonesian Vocational Skill Competency sector.
On his spare time, Chandra enjoys routine long cross-city biking, laying back binging on movies or video games, and sometimes building new challenging Lego sets. “I love traveling the most, but I’ve been stuck in Jakarta ever since covid hits”. He also does pro-bono works, volunteering for causes, mentor startups and small businesses.
You can find Chandra active on his blog, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube channel.
