PREPRESS

Agfa Graphics named Stan Tranter account manager for Quebec and Mario Michelini national corporate account manager for Canada.

Mark McKillop joined Advanced Publishing Technology as an editorial project manager.

CC1 Inc. named Bob Plencner as a manufacturing engineer. The company also named Chris Nardo Western region sales engineer.

Bob Plencner

Presstek Inc. named Jeffrey Jacobson as president and chief executive officer. He formerly served as chief operating officer at Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group.

PRESS

Baldwin Technology Co. Inc. named Karl S. Puehringer as chief executive officer of the company. He will continue to serve as president and chief operating officer, roles he has held since June 2005, the company said.
 

POSTPRESS

Rima System named Mark Legac vice president of sales and marketing, based in its Atlanta office. Legac formerly worked for Gammerler Corp.
 

INDUSTRY

Belo Corp. named R. Paul Fry vice president of investor relations and corporate communications.

Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation named Eric Neumann as research manager in the organization’s research department.   

Los Angeles Newspaper Group named Edward R. Moss president and chief executive officer. Moss, the former publisher of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, will also become publisher of the (Los Angeles) Daily News.

The Los Angeles Times Media Group named Scott Sullivan chief technology officer for latimes.com. 

Yasmin Namini was promoted to senior vice president, marketing and circulation for the New York Times Media Group.

NYTimes.com named Nicholas Ascheim as vice president, editorial products, and Eliot Pierce as vice president, operations and strategy.

The Orange County (Calif.) Register named Marti Buscaglia publisher, effective July 9. Buscaglia formerly was publisher of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune.

The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch named Jim Clark new revenue development manager and Joe Schwartz retail and recruitment inside sales manager.

Schurz Communications Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Franklin Dunn Schurz Jr. will retire on June 30. Todd Franklin Schurz, who will become president and CEO on July 1, will succeed him. Franklin Schurz will remain chairman of the company, which owns 13 newspapers including The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune.

Sun-Times Media Group named Peter King vice president of distribution, responsible for overseeing transportation-related activities for the Chicago Sun-Times and other Chicago-area newspapers owned by the company.

Tribune Publishing named Howard Greenberg president and chief executive officer of Sun Sentinel Co. and publisher of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Greenberg succeeds Robert Gremillion, who was promoted to executive vice president of Tribune Publishing.

AWARDS

Tom Saggiomo, president and chief executive officer of Agfa Graphics North America, was presented with the Gamma Gold Key Award from The Gamma Chapter of Gamma Epsilon Tau of the NYC College of Technology of the City University of New York at its 52nd Annual Installations of Officers meeting in June. Gamma Epsilon Tau is the international graphic arts honor society.

An alumnus of the NYC College of Technology, Saggiomo was honored for his 30 years of business leadership, as well as his ongoing commitment to the graphic arts industry including his role as chairman of NPES (The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies). Saggiomo also serves on the board of directors of the Graphics Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF), is past chairman of the Web Offset Association (WOA), and is a member of NYU’s Graphics Communications Advisory Board.