The Renault-Nissan Alliance has hired Brian Akre for the new position of director of executive comms, based in Amsterdam.
He will report to director of marketing comms for the alliance, Simon Sproule.
Akre had been senior speechwriter for Royal Dutch Shell, based in The Hague, since 2011, and from 2007 to 2011 he was a comms director for Nokia in Espoo, Finland.