SAN FRANCISCO — Hotwire PR has opened a San Francisco office as it expands its presence in the US. The new office comes less than two years after the founding of Hotwire New York and is the twelfth wholly owned Hotwire office across Europe, Australia and North America.

Associate director Annette Leach, from the firm's London office, will lead Hotwire San Francisco's team of five employees. She will report into Hotwire’s US managing director Leslie Campisi. The UK-based tech agency opened its 15-person office in New York in  2011.

Campisi describes the agency's position in San Francisco as the alternative "between the local boutiques and large, multinational agencies that exists in San Francisco."

Hotwire has wholly owned offices in the UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, and an affiliate network covering Asia and the Nordics, Eastern Europe and the Netherlands.