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Bob
O’Shea
Bob O’Shea has been an active
member of the BPIF for almost 40 years.
He was possibly the longest serving
member of the Education & Training
Committee until it was overtaken by
the PGC National Training Organisation
of which he was a member. In the early
1980’s he was National Chairman
of the YMP organisation and, subsequent
to that, became sometime chairman
of the BPIF Graduate Recruitment Programme.
He is concerned with and a member
of the Print Sector Industry Group
of Proskills.
He
is currently Chairman of Kerenza J
Ltd; a family owned small facsimile
book production company, Chairman
of J W Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol, a
Director of Marston Book Services
Ltd and of Oxfordshire Media
Network Ltd. He continues as Chairman
of the BPIF’s Digital Interest
Group and is Chairman of the BPIF
South Western Region.
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Per
Klavsen
Head of Professional Solutions Marketing
for Europe, Professional Print, Canon
Europe Ltd.
Appointed to the role of Head of Professional
Solutions Marketing for Europe in 2004,
Per brings with him strong industry
knowledge. He has overall responsibility
within Canon Europe for professional
print, which includes marketing, business
development, solutions and wide format
printing. Per also leads key professional
print initiatives across sales and service.
His strengths are a strong track record
in sales, marketing and management throughout
Europe.
Prior to joining Canon, Per was located
in Heidelberg, Germany working for NexPress
as European Business Development Manager
and was responsible for sales support
across Europe.
Previously at EFI (Electronics for Imaging),
based in Amsterdam, Per developed his
European experience in different sales
and management roles. His last role
at EFI was pan European Account Manager
with responsibility for Xerox in Europe.
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Andy
Middleton
Andy Middleton was appointed to the
position of Commercial Director, HP
Indigo Digital Press for Europe, Middle
East & Africa (EMEA) in July 2004.
His responsibilities include driving
market share increase through new customer
acquisition and the development of printed
page volume within the commercial and
industrial printing market of the graphic
arts industry.
Widely experienced in both frontline
direct sales and distribution of graphic
arts products, Andy worked for Indigo
from 1994 and subsequently for HP Indigo
Digital Press (IDP) in various roles.
For over four years he successfully
developed the Indigo business with channel
partners in Europe and the Middle East.
In January 1999 he took on the role
of General Manager of Indigo Germany
which included sales responsibilities
in Austria and Switzerland. More recently
Andy was head of all international distribution
channels for HP IDP Worldwide. |
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Ian
Lacey
Director, Deixis LTD.
Formerly a lecturer in microelectronics
and digital systems, Ian is a technologist
with some 22 years experience in both
commercial and defense industries. Most
recently as Head of IT for a UK public
telecommunications provider he developed,
in collaboration with an award winning
UK digital print company, new workflow
solutions for the production of full
color graphical telephone bills. This
collaboration led to the formation of
UK digital print technology company
and PODi general member Deixis, of which
he is currently a director. |
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John
Godwin
In his formative years he gained his
industry knowledge in Operations Management
on large IBM systems mainly in the educational
field at London University. Using this
knowledge he moved to the sales environment
before being asked to start the Siemens
laser printer business in the UK in
1984. He took Siemens from an unknown
position in the high speed printing
market to a status that was equivalent
to Xerox and IBM. He was then actively
involved in the Siemens / Oce takeover
before becoming a director of Oce in
their new printing division. In 2000
he took up the newly created role of
European Sales Director of Scitex Digital
Printing to move Scitex into the new
world of high speed digital colour.
In 2004 he become European Sales Director
of Kodak Versamark in the New Digital
Kodak when they purchased Scitex Digital
Printing. |
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Ellis
Watson
Managing Director of Menzies Distribution
and former Managing Director of Mirror
Newspapers, charged with turning around
five national and 240 regional titles.
He was previously MD at Celador International,
with responsibility for commercial sales
of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The
phenomenally successful show has been
licensed in more than 100 countries
with over 300 consumer products.
Ellis was originally Marketing Director
for The Sun and News of the World, reporting
directly to Rupert Murdoch. He helped
reverse a decline in sales and launched
a number of cutting edge initiatives,
from Books for Schools to interactive
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Sally
Cartwright
Sally Cartwright is Publishing Director
of HELLO! magazine, and has held that
job since 1990, shortly after the magazine’s
launch. She has been involved with the
celebrity magazine marketplace since
HELLO! created it with its launch in
1998. That market is still the fastest-growing
sector in women’s magazines, with
6 titles now published, and a total
weekly sales level for those magazines
of around 2,500,000 copies.
Prior to that, she was Managing Director
of Harmsworth Publications (a subsidiary
of Associated Newspapers), and earlier
a publisher with IPC Magazines.
She is responsible for all commercial
aspects of the magazines, and is its
usual representative to the public,
whether on television, radio or in person.
Sally is the ex-Chairman of the Periodical
Publishers Association, the first woman
ever to hold the post, and was awarded
an OBE in 2001 for her services to the
magazine industry. She is active in
a number of industry areas, and chairs
the Environmental Committee for the
magazine business worldwide. |
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Frank
Steenburgh
Frank is senior vice president, business
growth of Xerox Corporation's Production
Color Business. He was named to the
position in July 2003. He was appointed
a corporate officer in May 1998.
As senior vice president, business growth,
he has responsibility for growing Xerox's
production business, with a strong focus
on production color.
Frank joined Xerox in 1967 and has held
various sales and marketing management
positions. Most recently, he was senior
vice president and general manager for
the production color business. Prior
to that he was senior vice president
in charge of the company's worldwide
graphic arts industry business and senior
vice president and general manager for
Xerox's e-service business.
Frank has received numerous recognitions
in the Graphic Arts industry including
the Power of Communications award from
the Association of Graphic Communications,
the Print-on-Demand Pioneer award from
Cygnus Business Media and the CARY Award
from Rochester Institute of Technology,
the premier Graphic Arts school in the
world. He has authored graphic arts
articles and promoted educational programs
in digital printing technology. |
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Barry
Hibbert
Barry Hibbert was appointed Chief Executive
of the Polestar Group in August 2001,
representing a return to the Group as
Barry had worked for Polestar from 1993
until 1998, initially as Managing Director
of Polestar's Publications group of
companies, He joined the main Board
in 1997, before leaving to establish
a new software business in Europe. Previously,
Barry was a director of Harman International
Inc, where he championed quality and
production improvements in the USA and
Europe, winning an award from the DTI
for process innovation. A graduate engineer,
who also obtained his MBA in 1994, Barry
has also held senior positions with
Olivetti and Carlton Communications.
Barry was a founder member of the Vision
in Print initiative with the DTI, and
is now Honorary Vice Chairman. In March
2004, he was appointed a non-executive
director of the British Printing Industries
Federation (BPIF), and in September
of that year was appointed a director
of the European Rotogravure Association
(ERA). |
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Ian
Hislop
Ian has edited Private Eye since 1986,
taking over the helm from Richard Ingrams
and steered it to commercial success.
He is known to millions as the losing
team captain on the cult BBC quiz show
Have I Got News For You? which has won
numerous awards including a BAFTA for
Best Light Entertainment.
Ian began as a scriptwriter for Spitting
Image, and went on to write sketches
for Harry Enfield and television plays
for Maureen Lipman and Dawn French.
Most recently he has co-written the
ground- breaking family sitcom, My Dad’s
the Prime Minister.
Ian was honoured to receive the British
Society of Magazine Editor’s highest
award, the Editor’s Editor. |
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Mike
Hancock
Mike is Managing Director of Pira International
Ltd. Since joining Pira in 1977 he has
been a member of the senior management
team building the organisation into
a leading international management and
technical consulting business serving
the printing & publishing, packaging
and paper & board sectors.
He lectures frequently to international
audiences on strategic and technology
issues relating to paper, printing and
packaging. |
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Catherine
Hearn
Catherine Hearn joined the Polestar
Group on 1st July 2002 from Diageo plc.
She is based with other main board directors
at the Group’s Milton Keynes headquarters.
Catherine originally joined Guinness
Brewing in June 1996 as Employee Relations
and Policy Director. She later became
Human Resources Director for some of
the Guinness international markets.
With the integration of Guinness Brewing
and UDV, Catherine was appointed HR
Director of Diageo Business Services,
where she has been instrumental in steering
a complex and challenging programme
to redesign business processes and establish
a new business services centre in Budapest.
Prior to joining Guinness Brewing, Catherine
held a number of personnel management
roles during ten years at ICL. Her experience
also includes seven years at London
Transport. |
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Lars
Fredrickson
Lars has been active in the printing
industry since 1963. After some years
as an offset printer he managed production,
developing new technical solutions in
prepress and printing.
In 1984 he became the managing director
of Tryckindustri, a family owned, full
service sheet-fed printing company in
Sweden with annual sales of 2.7 million
euros. Since then he has developed the
business not only in printing, but also
in graphic design, electronic publishing,
logistics and communication. Thanks
to a mix of start-ups and acquisitions,
the annual growth was close to 15 percent
for more than ten years.
The group, which became very profitable,
is now called Intellecta and it is a
public company with annual sales of
40 million euros. Intellecta’s
business concept is Integrated Communication
and the group consists of 8 small or
medium sized companies in printing,
Internet solutions and strategic communication
in Sweden and Denmark.
Although he has now left his position
as CEO of Intellecta AB (publ) he is
still one of the main owners and keeps
a position as non-executive director,
business mentor and interim manager.
Lars is now president of the Swedish
Graphic Companies’ Federation.
He is also president of Intergraf, Brussels
and a board member of the Confederation
of Swedish Enterprise and previously
he was a board member of the Swedish
institute of research & development.
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James
Shand EDP
James has been involved with IT technology
for more than 30 years working in a
number of Service Bureau environments.
He was responsible for the introduction
of laser printing technology into the
data centre with Xerox 9700s in the
late 70’s making it the first mainframe
switchable facility in Europe, which
led to the creation of a business unit
providing application outsourcing for
clients.
After 24 years in the Service Bureau
industry James created his own consultancy
business, Paper Jungle Limited. He provided
strategic management to organisations
around the document as a communications
channel. In May 2000 he became part
of the MBO for edotech - part of Barclays
Bank, which became one of the fastest
growing companies in the UK developing
its client base from £20 million
($37m) turnover in 2000 to some £80
million ($149m) in 2004. In April 2004
edotech was acquired by the Astron Group
for £130m making it the largest
UK provider of transactional solutions
specialising in the financial and telecoms
markets.
edotech were strong supporters of EDSf
(Electronic Document Systems Foundation)
for a number of years and James is currently
one of its Advisory Directors. |
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Chris
Martin
Chris Martin has worked in the print
and systems sector for over 20 years.
He has held a number of directorships
in both start up and established B2B
and B2C companies. His key skills lie
in business development, marketing and
large scale project management.
Chris spent 5 years establishing and
managing Moore IMS (UK subsidiary of
Moore Corp.) which focussed solely on
colour digital print and collateral
management systems – customers
included Thomson Holidays, Centrica
, AA, Viking Office Supplies and Tektronix..
He now runs Syntax 121 a specialist
consultancy providing advice and resources
on digital print and customised marketing
projects. Syntax works with vendors,
service providers and end users to maximise
their returns from colour digital print
and relationship marketing initiatives. |
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Dennis
Turner
Dennis is the Chief Economist of HSBC
Bank plc. His role involves advising
lending bankers on economic trends not
only at national level, but also on
industries and regions.
Before joining Midland Bank in 1978,
he worked for four years in Whitehall,
for the National Economic Development
Office. This was during the Labour government’s
Industrial Strategy Initiative, which
was an attempt to improve the performance
of the UK’s manufacturing sector.
His first job on leaving university
(Swansea and University College, London)
was as an economist for a national trade
union. Here he was responsible for the
preparation of pay claims, arbitration
cases and the union’s submission
to various statutory bodies set up under
Edward Heath’s Industrial Relations
Act. |
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Mike
Taylor
Born 1947 in Wallasey Cheshire, the
son of a print buyer. Educated at Thames
Valley Grammar School, Twickenham and
later at London College of Printing.
Worked as a management trainee in a
printing company and later as a print
buyer for a multinational pharmaceutical
company.
Formed Fulmar Colour Printing Co Ltd
in 1971 at the age of 24 using a £4,000
loan from his father. Expanded the business
by both organic growth and acquisition
and took the business public in 1996.
Fulmar plc stands at number 39 in the
Printweek top 500 and employs over 400
staff, achieving a turnover in excess
of £40m and is profitably engaged
in the fields of book printing, reports
and accounts, corporate brochures and
advertising literature.
The Fulmar Group regularly achieves
awards success and has received the
highest accolades from both Printweek
and Printing World on several occasions.
Mike consistently places in the top
10 of the Printweek Power 100 and recently
was placed 4th behind Caxton in the
all time printers list!
A recent Printweek poll for Directors
of the "Ultimate Printing Company"
found Mike appointed as Chairman by
popular vote.
On being advised of his new position
he retorted that he intended to be both
"Executive" Chairman and operate
in a very "hands on" way. |
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