By Kevin McCauley
Jonathan Clare, who exited the CEO slot at Citigate Dewe Rogerson in last year’s revamp of Peter Chadlington’s Huntsworth, is joining London’s Porta Communications as executive chairman of its newly formed Newgate Public Relations arm.
The move will reunite Clare with PC CEO David Wright, a fellow founding director of Citigate, who launched the holding company in 2010. Wright was CEO of Incepta, Citigate’s parent, until 2003.
Clare, a former financial journalist, reported for The Times, Daily Mail, Birmingham Post and Investors Chronicle. He shifted to Streets Financial in 1986 and moved to Citigate the next year.
Clare’s PR clients have included HSBC, Credit Suisse, Granada, Investec and Morrisons.
Wright expects that PC under Clare’s leadership will “quickly establish a major PR consultancy able to advise and support clients wherever they operate around the globe.”
Newgate’s focus is on the financial, corporate and PA categories.
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