Newgate Communications has hired a former Kreab Gavin Anderson managing partner to establish its first Asian office in Hong Kong.
The Porta Communications-owned agency has brought in Richard Barton, the former Asia managing partner of KGA, to run its newly established Hong Kong business.
Barton has joined Newgate after 15 years at KGA, 12 of which were in Asia running offices in Singapore and Hong Kong.
He left the agency in September with a number of other senior KGA figures after the group ...