Newspapers and Technology September 1999
People News
Prepress
Karen Weltchek has been named president and chief executive officer of Atex Media Solutions, succeeding Larry Mihalchik, who resigned. Weltchek joins the company from McKinsey & Co., a global management-consulting firm where she specialized in assisting technology companies with new business strategy.
In addition, Max Coebergh, senior vice president of international operations, has been given broadened duties as head of global media operations, which now consists of International Operations, North American Operations, Engineering and Marketing. Also, Knut Holli, executive vice president of Kistefos Industrial Group, Atex Media Solutions' largest shareholder, has been elected chairman of the board.
Polaroid Graphics Imaging has appointed William Hayden as chief financial officer. Most recently, Hayden served as vice president and CFO for Integrated Solutions Inc.
Information Presentations Technologies Inc., a developer of prepress productivity systems and cross-platform network integration products for client/server computing, has named Ralph Lloyd as its director of product marketing. Before joining IPTech, Lloyd was a product specialist at Harlequin Inc.
In addition, the company has appointed Jim Bovay III as vice president of business development. Bovay previously worked with Digital Equipment Corp.
Harlequin, recently acquired by Global Graphics, named James Freidah as chief operating officer. He had been working for Global Graphics as director of digital business development.
Michael Lockett has been named Midwestern district sales manager for Printware Inc.
AdOne L.L.C., an Internet classifieds business, appointed David Prizer and David Teitler to the newly created positions of vice president for the company's affiliate network and vice president and director of advertising and sponsorship sales, respectively.
Prior to joining AdOne, Prizer served as classified advertising manager at the Portland Press Herald. Teitler most recently was the vice president and director of sales and strategic planning for packaged goods at the Newspaper National Network.
Optronics International Corp. has appointed Bill Lutz as Western Regional sales manager.
Press
Gerd Finkbeiner has been named the chairman of the executive board for MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, where he will be in charge of the world's second largest manufacturer of web and sheetfed printing equipment.
The 42-year-old Finkbeiner previously was responsible for the company's web product activities worldwide. He will be succeeded in that capacity by Paul Steidle, who also was named an acting member of the executive board.
Tony Smithson has been appointed general manager of Gannett Offset in Miramar, Fla., while A.J. Generotti was named general manager at Gannett Offset in Nashville, Tenn.
In addition, Rich Dorko has been named group director of information technology.
Postpress
Werner Naegeli has been appointed president and CEO of Muller Martini Corp., succeeding Kaspar Meier, who will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Naegeli had been vice president of engineering since 1996.
New Media
Tribune Interactive, Tribune Co.'s newly formed business group, has named Sharon Mandell as vice president and chief technology officer, and Michael Plonski as vice president of technical operations.
Alison Sweeney was named as the movie advertising sales manager for Tribune Media Services. She will be responsible for developing, launching and maintaining print and interactive movie advertising networks, along with advertising sales for movie listings products for TMS.
Mediapassage.com, a provider of integrated print media process technology and service, announced Susan Montgomery has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president of account development, while Anthony Ravani has been named executive vice president of information technology, also a newly created position.
Thomson Newspapers named Paul Camp the chief operation officer of its now combined Thomson Target Media and Thomson Interactive Media divisions.
Camp was CEO of Thomson Target Media before the two divisions merged.
Industry
Harding*Ankarlo designAlliance recently added Todd Heirls and Jordan Kobert as associates.
Heirls, a former GSI Inc. senior architect and project manager, will join the company's project teams on upcoming newspaper projects, while Kobert will serve as a process analyst.
PAGE Co-op, the newspaper industry's only non-profit purchasing cooperative, recently promoted two senior executives, elected two new directors and re-elected its officers.
H. Charles Berky, a founder and general manager of PAGE since its inception in 1984, was promoted to chief executive officer, while John Snyder, the group's operations manager the past 13 years, was named general manager.
Also, John Lee, president of Lee Enterprises, and Dolph Simons III, operations manager at the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, were newly elected to the PAGE board of directors. Also elected to additional terms were William Brehm Jr., president of Brehm Communications, and David Lucey, senior vice president of the Record-Journal Publishing Co.
Officers re-elected to the board include Tom Brown (chairman), publisher of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor; G. Charles Dix (president), vice president of Dix Newspapers; Brehm (vice president); Berky (secretary); Lucey (treasurer) and Snyder (assistant secretary/treasurer).
