Newscycle Solutions has announced a further appointment for the Asia Pacific, and expansion of its global hosting operations.

Paul Schofield has been named regional vice president of customer operations, based in Sydney where Bryan Hooley was recently appointed business manager.

Former Digital First Media chief technology officer Bob Mason joins as global vice president of hosting. Both will report to chief operations officer, Scott Roessler.

Schofield will run service and support of Newscycle's existing Asia Pacific customers and manage its Malaysian development centre and Singapore support and services teams. He joined Newscycle in 2013 from Atex, Inc where he was vice president of audience development, and has been responsible for development and support of Newscycle's audience software.