Kevin McAuliffe

McAuliffe is Founder and President of Newport Ltd., a consumer products and services marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1994, Newport has built a nationwide face-to-face marketing organization with over 1,500 sales professionals in 90 independently owned sales offices and complements these channels with extensive digital marketing expertise as well as retail distribution throughout Japan.

Newport performs customer acquisition for some of Japan’s leading consumer services companies and also markets a number of select consumer brands sourced from both Japanese as well as international suppliers. Newport was certified with ISO14001 in 2004.

Prior to founding Newport Ltd., McAuliffe held senior-level marketing and strategic development positions for seven years with Reuters Japan Ltd. His responsibilities included directing Reuters’ worldwide mergers and acquisition strategy for the medical information business, launching a satellite based video information service, and marketing real-time print and video news services. Before joining Reuters, he worked in Hong Kong for Time Inc. for six years. From an initial stint as advertising manager for Time Magazine he moved to circulation director for Time in Southeast Asia and then Asian circulation director for Fortune International where he launched the Asian/Pacific edition.

Prior to joining Time Inc., McAuliffe worked for eight years in various freelance and staffed editorial positions throughout Asia Pacific including three years based in Tokyo as Asian editor for Ace International, a trade magazine for the consumer electronics industry.

McAuliffe received an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business IBEAR Program in 1987 and took his undergraduate degree in English Literature from San Diego State University in 1973. He is active in the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.