Bite Communications Appoints David Hargreaves As General Manager, North America


SAN FRANCISCO – May 27, 2008:


Former Managing Director of Bite Communications UK Transfers to Lead US Operations

Bite Communications, the multi-channel technology PR consultancy, today announced that David Hargreaves has been transferred from his position as Managing Director of Bite Communications UK to General Manager, Bite Communications North America. In his new role, effective immediately, Hargreaves will oversee the management of Bite’s North American offices from San Francisco.

Hargreaves brings over 18 years of experience working in the communications industry and has been with Bite Communications since late 2005, following the acquisition of his company Credo Communications. Since joining Bite, Hargreaves has been instrumental in driving the significant growth and innovation that has become Bite’s trademark in the UK market. Much of the growth can be attributed to Hargreaves’ role leading the region’s business development activities, highlighted by key strategic wins with a number of industry-leading brands including Facebook and Getty Images.

As General Manager, North America, Hargreaves will be responsible for providing strategic counsel across all client service teams as well as further developing Bite’s service offering with the support of the existing senior management team. Of particular focus will be continuing to build out campaigns centered on Bite’s audience-centric, channel-neutral communications platforms.

“David’s broad range of experience working with clients such as Apple, Sage and Sun, as well as his strong track record in developing award-winning communications campaigns, made him the obvious choice to head up our North America-based operations,” said Clive Armitage, CEO, Bite Communications. “It’s an exciting time to bring David to this market. Today, clients rightly demand more than just competitive communications strategies; they require creative, proactive campaigns that use an ever growing number of communications channels to effectively target increasingly fragmented audiences. This is a passion for David and we’re looking forward to having him apply his innovative thinking to help further strengthen our offering here in North America.”

“Bite has an impressive existing client base in North America and I’m looking forward to working with those clients and helping them navigate the ever-changing global communications landscape,” said David Hargreaves, General Manager, North America, Bite Communications. “I have already seen incredible talent at Bite in this market and I’m looking forward to working with these teams to continue to provide the highest level of strategic counsel and client service.”



About Bite Communications
Bite, a subsidiary of the Next Fifteen Communications Group, is a 180 strong communications consultancy with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Stockholm. With a mission to deliver fearless and boundless communications campaigns to its range of B2B and B2C clients, Bite has built its business on developing creative, results orientated campaigns for market-leading blue chip and fast growing emerging start-up brands. Its client list includes Apple, AMD, Facebook, PayPal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems. For more information, visit the Bite Communications website at www.bitepr.com.


For further information, please contact:

Jason Clarke
Bite Communications
(415) 365-0400
jason.clarke@bitepr.com