Y&R hires Australian Peter Skalberg to lead Indochina operation
Y&R has hired Australian Peter Skalberg, who started his career in George Patterson Bates in Melbourne in 1987, to run its Indochina operation.
Since his time in Melbourne, Skalberg has worked at a number of the big ad agency groups in Asia including Y&R, and comes in as Vincent Van Dessel steps down after just under a year and a half as CEO of Y&R Vietnam, and a short spell leading the business in Myanmar.
Skalberg, known in the industry as “Skally”, will manage Y&R’s operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. He moves from Jakarta, where he has been running the Garnier business for Publicis Indonesia for the last nine months, to Ho Chi Minh City.
Over a 20-year career in advertising managing clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestle and Marina Bay Sands, Skalberg has worked at Bates Vietnam, then in Singapore, Rediffusion Y&R India and McCann in Shanghai and Singapore.
