Fleishman-Hillard appoints Shafaat Hussain to SEA role

In his new role, Hussain will provide strategic counsel to key clients across the firm’s various practice groups and offices across the Southeast Asia region. He will remain based in Singapore.

Hussain joined Fleishman-Hillard in 2010 and has played a leading role in accelerating and growing the firm’s technology and telecommunications practice.

The agency has also strengthened its Singapore-based corporate and consumer teams with the addition of Ayesha Kohli, Jenny Brannan and Meena Sharma.

Kohli, who joins the firm as an account director, is a marketing and communications strategist with more than eight years of global experience in the consumer and media industries. She has worked for multinational corporations such as Procter & Gamble in Singapore and Belgium, and for such global news organizations as the BBC.

Brannan joins Fleishman-Hillard Singapore as an account manager. She recently relocated to Singapore from London, where she spent six years managing and developing media strategies for Aurora, Mencap, and a range of other clients across the technology, consumer, home interest, education and public affairs sectors.

Meanwhile, Sharma comes to her new role from Canada, where she worked with Environment Canada on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and managed communications for a Vancouver political leader across traditional and digital media channels.