Speaker and Advisory Board | World Printers Summit 2020
World Printers Summit 2020
Advisory Board
Managing Director - Print Production, The Globe and Mail, Canada
Sally Pirri brings extensive publishing experience to the role of Managing Director, Print Production at The Globe and Mail. Since joining The Globe and Mail, Pirri has held various operational roles in both Circulation and Advertising before moving into production management for newspapers and magazines. In 2002, Pirri was promoted to Director, Production, responsible for all Globe and Mail printed products. And later in 2017 to Managing Director, Print Production. In her tenure at The Globe and Mail, she has seen the newspaper through several redesigns, including the most ambitious redesign in the paper’s publishing history in 2010.
In her current role, Pirri oversees the production and printing of The Globe and Mail newspaper, Report on Business Magazine and Style Advisor Magazine, as well as building and maintaining relationships with the print partners across Canada, TC • Transcontinental Printing and Glacier Media. The Globe and Mail is printed in five print sites across Canada, and printed on industry leading hybrid printing presses.
In 2012 Pirri was one of only seven women, worldwide, to win the coveted Women of Distinction Award from OuputLinks Communications Group (Houston, Texas).
Pirri is actively involved with the World Association of Newspaper and News Publishers, WAN-IFRA, sharing her knowledge and successes with industry leaders and publishers, and currently sits on the World Printers Forum Board.
She also sits on the Ladies First Hockey Foundation Board. LFHF specifically supports the players of the Canadian National/Olympic Women’s Hockey, and supports the National Program’s development towards the overall sport of Canadian Women’s hockey. The Foundation is 100% volunteer governed.
Production Director, Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
Mr. Ullman studied Druck und Medientechnik at Fachhochschule in Munich from October 2002 until March 2007. He is in charge of all production for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. His responsibilities cover: customer liaison, pre-press, press, post press, strategic foresight for the production as well as future investments. From 2015 Mr. Ullman has been the Managing director for Presse Druck and Verlags – GmbH as well as being the Production director of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung.
Technical Director, Athesis, Italy
Technical Director in Athesis, a publishing house located in Verona, north-east of Italy, that publishes three local newspapers (L’Arena in Verona county, Il Giornale di Vicenza in Vicenza county, Bresciaoggi in Brescia county) and owns two local TV (TeleArena in Verona and TeleMantova in Mantova), a Radio (RadioVerona in Verona) and the book publishing house Neri Pozza.
Managing Director, Tamedia, Switzerland
Andreas Schaffner (CH/F/1963) is Co-Managing Director of the Paid Media division since January 2020. In this function, he is also in charge of the three printing centres in Bern, Lausanne and Zurich, as well as the publishing logistics division. Since the end of 2009 he has been employed by Tamedia AG as responsible of the Publishing Services division. Andreas Schaffner gained professional and management experience in the graphic arts industry before studying engineering at the Ecole Suisse d'Ingénieur des Industries Graphiques in Lausanne. He joined Ringier in 1995 as project manager. At Ringier AG, Andreas Schaffner headed various service and printing divisions and became Managing Director of Ringier Print in Adligenswil (Switzerland) in 2005. From 2007 to 2009, Andreas Schaffner, who completed a part-time Executive MBA degree, was a member of the management of Ringier Switzerland.
Group Paper Director, DMG-Media, London
Dr. Rick Stunt is the Group Paper Director for DMG-Media in London. He holds a Phd in Chemical Physics. Dr. Stunt is the former chairman of the World Printers Forum board as well as being on the board of WAN-IFRA. He is the chair of the N.I.M.C (Newspaper Industry Raw Materials Committee) in the UK, as well as chairing the Paper and Environmental Working Group for N.M.E. (News Media Europe) and is an Executive Director on the Board of 2-Sides. Dr. Stunt also served on the Board of WAN-IFRA for several years.
General Manager, Production, News Corp., Australia
After graduating from Chemical Engineering at Sydney University, Marcus commenced his career in metallurgy in Australia and the UK. After seven years in this field, he transitioned to FMCG with Colgate Palmolive, holding a number of Senior Leadership roles across Australia and New Zealand. Currently Marcus is the Executive General Manager of Production, Logistics and Property at News Corp Australia. With more than 20 years in Operational leadership Marcus has a wealth of knowledge on driving cultural change and delivering sustained improved operational outcomes.
Production Director, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany
Andreas studied Printing and Media Technology at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany. After graduation, he joined Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei GmbH 1997 as a trainee and later promoted as aAssociate in 1999. In 2001, Andreas moved to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH and performed various management tasks within the production department. Currently he heads the entire production department including planning, ad production and newspaper/magazine production. Starting in 2020, he also took over as Head of Strategic Purchasing.
Director - Technical, Bennett Coleman Co Ltd., India
Snehasis Roy is an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and B.S with Honours (Printing Management & Sciences) from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Snehasis has over 28 years of Leadership experience spread over organisations like Times Warner inc., Dainik Bhaskar, ABP Pvt Ltd & Times of India Group (BCCL).
He is currently leading the Times group production as Technical Director. He takes care of Press and Prepress operations, and infra upgradations. Apart from this, currently, he is Chairman for the World Printers Forum, South Asia Committee.
Snehasis is an accomplished technocrat with acclaimed achievement in production & technology. He has led projects that considered a benchmark in Newspaper plant design and maintenance in South Asia. In addition, under his guidance, his team has won several recognitions. The latest one to mention is the WAN-IFRA Print Innovation Awards 2019. Under the Product Innovation category, BCCL won both Gold & Silver awards.”
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Global Product Manager, Cascade Corporation
CEO, Vedacon
Business Unit Manager of Competence Center, Suddeutsche Zeitung
Project Manager, Vedacon
VP Technical Sales, Stora Enso
Managing Director, Pressens fællesinkob
Director Technical Customer Service, UPM
Managing Director, Two Sides UK
Senior Vice President - Newsprint and Retail Customers, UPM, Finland
Ms Ahola is the Senior Vice President, Newsprint and Retail Customers and WAN IFRA Printers’ Forum Board member. Anu Ahola joined UPM in 2007 being responsible for strategy creation and implementation processes and Paper Business Group's strategy development. Prior to joining UPM she worked for Nokia and Pöyry. Anu Ahola has a Master's degree in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology, and MBA from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.
Purchasing Director, Gramméo
Principal of Virtual Industrial Marketing
Managing editor of over 20 international cross industry projects for Web Offset Champion Group, PrintCity, icmPrint, and OPHAL. Entered the industry as an apprentice printer in the UK, followed by 20 years in Australia working in print production and management. Returned to Europe working in Munich and Madrid for the Eurografica consultancy, followed by business development for MEGTEC. Studies include printing technology in the UK, management in Australia, and Masters in industrial marketing, Paris CNAM. Associate of Ecograf, principal of Virtual Industrial Marketing.
Director - Technical, Bennett Coleman Co Ltd., India
Snehasis Roy is an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and B.S with Honours (Printing Management & Sciences) from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Snehasis has over 28 years of Leadership experience spread over organisations like Times Warner inc., Dainik Bhaskar, ABP Pvt Ltd & Times of India Group (BCCL).
He is currently leading the Times group production as Technical Director. He takes care of Press and Prepress operations, and infra upgradations. Apart from this, currently, he is Chairman for the World Printers Forum, South Asia Committee.
Snehasis is an accomplished technocrat with acclaimed achievement in production & technology. He has led projects that considered a benchmark in Newspaper plant design and maintenance in South Asia. In addition, under his guidance, his team has won several recognitions. The latest one to mention is the WAN-IFRA Print Innovation Awards 2019. Under the Product Innovation category, BCCL won both Gold & Silver awards.”
Publisher and CEO, Daily Maverick, South Africa
Professor for Industrial Engineering Media
Consultant
Interpress NI ltd, Irish News
CEO, WirbelWild GbR
CEO, Suddeutscher Verlag Zeitungsdruck, Germany
Mr. Josef Schiessl studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich with a degree in printing and media as a graduate engineer. Since then, he has accumulated over 36 years of experience in the printing industry, starting as an operational project manager, Controller and predominantly in management.
Mr. Schiessl has been the managing director of the printing company of the Süddeutsche Zeitung for 5 years. He focuses on topics such as quality, increased efficiency in industrial production and developing new business areas as services, as well as new technologies such as 3D printing.
CEO and Founder, Community Impact Newspaper, USA
CEO Iceland Post
DGM Prepress, Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd., India
Vijaykumar S Bichakal is graduate engineer in Electronics from Pune University and has over 28 years of experience in prepress at the Times of India Group. He believes that technologies of AI, ML and RPA present exciting opportunities to transform the workflows to benefit business in this VUCA environment. Workflows of the future must be light, accessible, scalable, reachable from anywhere any time. He is currently working in Prepress as DGM. He takes care of designing and implementing Prepress workflows for print. He has completed several key projects for the Company.
Sr. Manager – Production, Bennett Coleman Co. Ltd., Mumbai
Amol Pitale is a post graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) from Mumbai University with bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Amol has over 12 years of experience with Print Application Technologies. He had been working with Editorial Print Application since 2007 wherein he joined BCCL- Times Group and later moved to TATA Consultancy Limited, where he worked for US based publication house “Tribune Publishing”. Since last 2 years he has joined again the Times of India Group (BCCL). He is currently working with BCCL Prepress wherein his major role contributes to the Application Technology and support to all English and Regional print publications. He has been a key team member in Implementation of Editorial workflows in BCCL. He has also been the team member for lead projects which included the WAN-IFRA Print Innovation and AMA.
Vice President Technology & Development, manroland Goss
Manuel Kosok is a digitalisation and automation enthusiast: As Vice President Technology & Development at manroland Goss and Managing Director of the measurement and control specialist grapho metronic, he is driving forward future-oriented new developments for industry 4.0. Whether agile engineering methods or artificial intelligence – as a business coach and NLP trainer he also shows others how lateral thinking works and how constant change lays the foundation for future success.
Manager Sustainability, UPM Communication Papers, Germany
Stefanie Eichiner is Manager Sustainability at UPM Communication Papers. She loves paper – and the forest. With her master’s degree in forest science, she has planted, cared for and harvested trees in the Bavarian Forest. With her Ph.D. in natural resource management, she has studied and taught in sustainable natural resource use in Germany, Indonesia and the United States. For 7 years she has now been a manager in sustainability at UPM Communication Papers.
Head of Strategic Procurement, Bonnier News, Sweden
Anna Drougge is the head of strategic procurement with Bonnier News. She as worked as a
procurement executive in the Media Services and Industrial Production. Anna joined the Bonnier Group in 2005 and headed strategic sourcing for production and services. Former Manager Capital Procurement in Pfizer Inc and Purchasing Manager in the Automobile Industry (Trelleborg Group). Office in Stockholm.
Senior Director of Manufacturing, TC Transcontinental, Ontario
Gary is the Senior Director of Manufacturing at TC Transcontinental. He joined the organisation in March 2007 as Site Leader, Transcontinental Newspaper Group. His primary responsibility was to manage the San Francisco project. He oversaw the construction, installation, hiring, training and the successful launch of the Fremont, California facility. In January 2011, he was promoted to Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations for the Newspaper Group. He moved to Canada and managed The Globe and Mail press installation project across Canada. Once completed, Gary took on the General Manager role at the new Vaughan facility. In 2016, Gary assisted in bringing another daily newspaper, the Toronto Star into the Vaughan plant operation. Again, in 2018, Gary oversaw the addition of another daily, the Hamilton Spectator. In 2020, Gary was promoted to Senior Director Manufacturing of the Print Sector. Gary now assists the manufacturing operation of all the printing business units from Halifax to Vancouver. He’s also responsible for large scale project work and establishing an annual capital plan.
Operations Manager, TC Transcontinental
Dave Toth has over 25 years of Printing Industry experience in a multitude of rolesDave Toth has over 25 years of Printing Industry experience in a multitude of roles. He started as a feeder on a printing press, eventually working his way through the ranks on the press, on inserting equipment and into prepress. In 2002, Toth joined the Management Team at Transcontinental and was later promoted to Operations Manager, responsible for both newspaper and retail printing at Transcontinental’s flagship print plant located just north of Toronto. In his tenure at Transcontinental, he has helped to lead several press and post press installations while working closely with newspaper publishers as they transitioned to contract printing and through several product redesigns.
Manager, National distribution and logistics, Globe and Mail, Canada
Like most Gen Xers, Vito’s young employment journey began as a newspaper carrier managing multiple routes, for multiple publications while going to school. What originally started as a part time job eventually led him to a long, fulfilling career years later at The Globe and Mail. Since joining The Globe, Vito has worked in Customer Service, Marketing, Advertising and Operations where he currently sits as Manager, National Logistics and Distribution.
