People In The News
PREPRESS
William Ryker joined Anygraaf
as sales director.
Agfa Graphics announced that
Peter Wilkens, director of Agfa’s newspaper segment for North America, will now
head the U.S. sales and marketing team as vice president.
Meantime, Agfa named Kevin
Bialobzyski as a new account manager for Agfa Graphics, Canada, assigned to
Alberta.
Advanced Publishing Technology
named Diane Duren online project manager.
WoodWing Software named Hans
Janssen chief executive officer, and Ruud Rijbroek, one of the founders of the
company, chairman of the board.
| Flint names CEO
Flint Group named Charles
Knott chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1.
 Knott
led and developed global specialty chemical companies within Unilever
and ICI plc, most recently serving as chairman and chief executive
officer of Quest International, a unit of ICI.
Knott succeeds Dave
Frescoln, who was named deputy chairman of the consumables company. |
MultiAd promoted Gina Bennett
to product manager for MultiAd Revolution, the company’s Web-based classified
display advertising app.
AlfaQuest Technologies Inc.
named Arnd Schimanski product support manager for media systems, Diane Kepley to
application specialist for media systems, Kristina Aevermann to application
specialist for media systems, Garry Forman to technical support engineer and Ken
Anderson to technical support engineer.
GMG named Michael Haecker vice
president of sales.
CC1 Inc. named Bill Babbitt
field service engineer
PRESS
Q.I. Press Controls named
Pieter S. de Groot director of the firm.
NEW MEDIA
Caspio Inc. named David A.
Millironto director of media services.
Pressmart named Myles M. Fuchs
president of its North American operation, a newly created position. Fuchs, a
former executive with NewsStand Inc., will oversee the company’s sales and
marketing efforts.
Topix appointed Chris Tolles
chief executive officer.
INDUSTRY
The (New York) Daily News
named Stephen Lynas senior vice president of Daily News Digital, responsible for
overseeing the paper’s online activities.
The Press-Enterprise Co. named
Ken Nelson vice president of advertising.
Signature Offset named Matt
Sanchez production training director. He will be responsible for training all of
the printer’s production and press operators in all seven of Signature’s
facilities.
Judy Brenna rejoined Journal
Register Co. as its director of investor relations.
The New York Times Co.
Regional Media Group named Jerome Ferson publisher of The Ledger in Lakeland,
Fla.
Wayne Bean, operations
director/projects, at the Los Angeles Times, retired after a 38-year career that
included stints with newspapers in Tucson, Ariz., and Torrance, Calif.
The Seattle Times Co. named
Larisa Sheckler to directory of online operations for the company’s new media
division.
The Los Angeles Times Media
Group named Dr. Kamran Izadpanah vice president of software engineering and
architecture for latimes.com.
OBITUARIES
Michael Lemke, senior vice
president of sales and marketing at The Seattle Times Co., passed away in June.
He was 53.
Lemke joined The Times in 1986
and oversaw print and online advertising for both The Times as well as the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
In lieu of flowers, the family
suggests donations to McCloud Healthcare Clinic, P.O. Box 1143, McCloud, Calif.
96057-1143; or the Pancreaticobiliary Research Fund, c/o Virginia Mason Seattle
Main Clinic, 1100 Ninth Ave., Seattle 98101, Attn: Dr. Vincent Picozzi.
The New York Times said
Raymond E. Douglas, who helped oversee the paper’s introduction of color into
its news pages in the late 1990s, died June 29. Mr. Douglas was 58.
