His first working experience was in Kawasaki Motors Corporation, Irvine, California, where he served as the lead product designer and model maker for various jet skis and hybrid motorcycles design projects for the American market. Parallel to Kawasaki, he was also responsible for developing hospital heart monitoring devices for a hospital product distribution company In Southern California.

Within the same year he together with his wife, who specializes in Graphics and Packaging, co-founded MakkiMakki Communications in 1991 with product design, combined with graphics and packaging, as the focus of the business and have been involved in developing, nurturing and growing the business ever since.

In 1992 MakkiMakki moved its headquarter to Jakarta, Indonesia to capture a more prospective market in Indonesia and had the opportunity to be responsible for creating and developing various national, regional and multinational brand and branding programs for national and multinational companies such as Unilever Indonesia, British American Tobacco, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Frisian Flag, Matahari Putra Prima, Sampoerna, Hero Supermarket, HongKong Shanghai Bank, Mercedes-Benz, DaimlerChrysler, Kimia Farma, PermataBank, CenturyBank, Bank BTPN, Bank Mandiri, Garuda Indonesia, Aerowisata International, The Tempo Group and many others, and won a number of awards for various design competitions in the last 15 years.

One of his major accomplishments in the industrial design field was in 1993 when he had the opportunity and trust to assist Larry Shinoda, the Godfather” of automobile designers in America who was invited to conduct a 2-weeks, Automotive Styling” seminar for Astra International’s automotive designers in Jakarta, to provide a hands-on learning experience in designing automotive products and clay modeling.

Being the pioneer in the field of brand and branding in Indonesia, Sakti had been frequently invited by many companies to share his views, insights and experiences about brand and branding. Amongst them are Unilever Indonesia (Unilever’s Regional Marketing Course in 2002), Tempo Group, Indofarma, Artajasa, Recapital, GrandKemang Hotel, Bank BTPN and CenturyBank) and many other business and brand-and-branding-related forums. Just recently, in January 2007, he made a contributing presentation to UNESCO’s Power of Peace forum in Jimbaran, Bali, on the topic of UNESCO brand and how to properly align and leverage its peace-related-topics-and-forums in the future.

Sakti also had the opportunity to attend Singapore’s Global Brand Forums (2003 and 2006) to listen to some of the most prominent figures in the brand and branding world. He is now a proud member of YEO, Young Entrepreneurs Organization Indonesia Chapter, where he had served as the learning chair and chapter president-elect. He is also one of the semifinalists of Ernst and Young’s The Young Entrepreneur Award 2004, the most prestigious entrepreneur competition in the world.

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