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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.