World Printers Summit 2024

Todd Socia joined the New York Times in 2005, and is currently Senior Vice President – Print Products & Services. He has responsibility for The Times College Pt Production facility in NY, 23 National Print sites, Nationwide Distribution & Transportation, NYT Magazine Production, Newsprint & Paper purchasing, and all Prepress Departments.

Dick is the CEO/Owner of Rodi Group. A company founded by his father in 1978. The company consists of a publishing company, printing house and distribution company. The company is located all throughout the Netherlands. Dick is 38 years old and has been the CEO for several years now.

Gundula Ullah has been leading the Procurement function at FUNKE Mediengruppe, one of Germany’s largest media companies, since April 2019. She is steadily driving forward the transformation of the entire purchasing organization, which covers the needs of all business units (newspaper, magazines, digital, radio).

Sanat Hazra worked for the Times of India for 10 years as a Technical and Production Director, initiating Print Innovation program. The stellar performance achieved, significantly contributing to advertising revenue. Prior to joining Times of India, Sanat worked 14 years for the New York Times, as Executive Director managing all print production and technology across USA. He was instrumental in converting the New York Times to color from black and white. His first job was with Crosfield Data System, as a material science engineer developing direct imaging thermal plates.

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

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 an Associate in 1999. In 2001, Andreas moved to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH and performed various management tasks within the production department.

Bastian is currently Managing Director of BOXIT, a JV of FIEGE Group and F.A.Z. which is orchestrating last mile delivery of press products, marketing catalogues or corporate publishing products for publishing houses, retailers or institutional organizations. Before he joined BOXIT he was Head of Business Development of the FIEGE Group and responsible for the group-wide strategy program.

Dean is Director of Insights and Editor-in-Chief of WAN-IFRA, he is responsible for coordinating all activities related to the organisation’s array of multimedia publications. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the news publishing industry, much of that time spent researching, analysing, identifying and ultimately reporting about global media developments.

Laetitia is highly experienced in EU policy and advocacy with a background and specialisation in economics and experience in European environmental policy. She is responsible for all economicand environmental issues. She also produces the Intergraf Annual Economic Report, where data about the European graphic industry is compiled and analysed. Laetitia’s native language is French and she also speaks English and German.

Mr. Garrido is the Managing Director at Corporacion Bermont, located in Madrid. Spain’s leading Newspaper Contract Printing Company with 7 printing plants across mainland Spain, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands. He is educated as an Economist. Currently he is the chairman of the World Printers Forum Board (WPF) at WAN-IFRA and Board member of the manroland Users Group (MRUG). Previously he worked for KPMG and El Economista magazine.

Michael Tillian is at present managing director of Austria’s leading publishing house „MediaPrint“ as well as the „Krone Verlag“, editing „Kronen Zeitung“, Austria’s most read daily newspaper. Before joining MediaPrint he was CEO of „Freie Presse Mediengruppe“ in Saxony/Germany. For the last 20 years Tillian worked as an entrepreneur, lawyer, consultant and managing director for prestigious media groups in Austria and Germany. He has played a central role in the digitalization and restructuring of publishing houses and has broad experience in M&A, investment management and business development.

Josef Schiessl is the managing director of the Süddeutsche Zeitung printing plant in Munich. In addition to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, this factory also produces several of Germany’s national daily newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Die Welt and various editions of BILD. As the industry changes, enormous efforts are being made to increase efficiency and reduce costs while maintaining a very high level of quality.