Andrew Price will be the company’s chief executive of Asia Pacific from the 17 August.
He will be responsible for growing the HH Global £30m Asia-Pacific business region, which currently includes India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China and Australia. He will be based in Hong Kong and join the main board of directors.
Price, who was sacked as Paperlinx chief executive by the Paperlinx board in February prior to the UK wing's fall into administration in April, said: “It is refreshing to be working with an internationally respected board, who have long-term commercial experience and a thorough understanding of the complexities of our industry. After having had an in-depth look at HH's global offering, which was one of the key reasons I joined, I look forward to rapidly expanding its operations in the high-growth Asia Pacific region.
"There's a whole range of services and value we can add to the market, so it's incredibly exciting," he added.
Price has a track record in print management, having founded Stream Solutions in Australia in the late 1990s. He ultimately sold print management business to Toll Corporation in 2007, by which time its sales had exceeded the A$100m mark.
HH Global group chief executive Robert MacMillan praised Price's 30-years industry experience.
"I've known Andrew a long time, back to when he was at Stream, where he built a fantastic business. We've always kept the dialogue open since those days. The Asia-Pacific business is of a size and a substance now that warrants an investment in bringing in who I think, in terms of Asia print management experience, is the perfect leader," he said.
"With Andrew for Asia-Pacific, Mike Perez in the Americas and Steve Nunn in EMEA we've got the best management team around."
Separately, last night MacMillan was also named one of the London & South winners in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards, joining Inspired Thinking Group chief executive Simon Ward who was named overall Midlands winner earlier this week.
"It's good to see two people from our industry honoured like this. We're constantly how told tough the market is, but from a UK perspective things are on the up and things like this help us start talking the industry up rather than down," said MacMillan.
