Daphne Yang, CEO of Taiwan's Catchplay Group, is ContentAsia's Woman to Watch for today because... she's an integral participant in Taiwan's increasingly influential presence on the regional content scene, setting up production subsidiary, Screenworks Asia, in 2020 and tapping into the Taiwan's government-backed campaign to attract the right kind of attention for the country's creative industry.

In addition to developing a strong content pipeline, Yang is behind streaming platform Catchplay+, which has about six million users across Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia, and   has led the company into co-productions such as The Revenant and Assassin’s Creed with Hollywood studio New Regency and Silence by director Martin Scorsese, as well as partnerships with WarnerMedia’s HBO Asia for The World Between Us and The Making of An Ordinary Woman (in partnership with Taiwan’s CTS).

Screenworks Asia aims to produce 100 hours of premium content a year, including  films, mini-series and factual entertainment, which is just one of the reasons she's on our Women to Watch list.

Yang says two things motivate her: the first is "Coming up with an idea that can change things for the better" and the second is "engineering the change".  

We also asked... 

What would you like people to say about you when you are not in the room?

"Genuine, interesting to talk to, willing to listen". 

Are you now where you thought you would be when you were 20?

"When I was 20, I wanted to be someone successful but the idea of success was just an empty concept of achievements without much knowledge of the process or the level of work behind it. Now it’s the other way around. I’m grateful to be much more equipped with what it takes to make things happen. And if things don’t go as planned, what’s needed to deal with it and move on."