Respected industry figure Peter Hutton has been appointed as the new chief operating officer at the MP & Silva agency.
Hutton served as the managing director of pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports, which has been rebranded as Fox Sports in Southeast Asia, after spells at the IMG agency, UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, commercial broadcaster ITV and public-service broadcaster the BBC.
Hutton will be based in the agency’s London office from July.