Barnes Back in L.A. With Carat

LOS ANGELES-John Barnes has joined Carat’s Los Angeles office as managing director, a new post.
Barnes spent more than 13 years at Ammirati Puris Lintas, New York, where he most recently served as executive vice president and managing director, responsible for accounts such as Johnson & Johnson, Nabisco, Labatt and JVC.
For the past four months, he served as president of the marketing communications division of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based FGI.
Barnes, who grew up in Southern California, said he returned to L.A.