ASIA-PACIFIC- SYDNEY, September 20, 2013 – Bite has announced the promotions of Roger Marshall to Senior Vice President, Asia South and Karen Coleman to Group Director, Bite Australia.
With the promotions, Bite is recognizing the strength of its senior leaders in Australia and driving continued regional growth, the global marketing services agency said in a press release.
"With Bite for more than five and a half years and serving most recently as Managing Director of Asia South, Marshall has built the Australia office into one of the region’s most consistently innovative and profitable teams and has simultaneously overseen the development of Bite’s business in Singapore," they said.
As senior vice president, Marshall will contribute to regional efforts across Australia, Singapore and Southeast Asia, developing Bite’s marketing capabilities and providing leadership for human resources and training initiatives.
Marshall has over 20 years’ communications experience across Australia and New Zealand, Asia and Europe. He will continue to use this experience to provide insight and client counseling in his new role.
< width="200" height="250" hspace="5" align="right" alt="" src="/global//UserFiles/Karen Coleman Grey background 1. " />In her more than six years with Bite, Coleman has provided strategic direction on enterprise and consumer client campaigns for PR, digital and integrated marketing.
"In her previous role as Practice Director, Coleman led the growth of the Australia team’s execution of integrated digital work following Bite’s transition from a PR agency into an integrated marketing services agency," the release said.
As group director, Coleman will be responsible for the day-to-day management and development of the Bite Australia team, utilizing her expertise in both online and offline PR and integrated marketing to drive business growth and new business development.
Paul Mottram, Executive VP, Asia Pacific remarked, “People drive both client and agency success and Roger and Karen represent the very best of Bite. With a diverse and seasoned team of senior counselors and specialists, we’re able to take a strategy-driven and insights-based approach to everything we do. Our award-winning performance is a direct result of that.”
Bite was recently named both Mid-size Consultancy of the Year at Campaign Asia’s PRWeek Awards, and Asia-Pacific Technology Consultancy of the Year by communications industry authority The Holmes Report.
