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.

Peyrègne took up duties as Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on 1 October 2012. Prior to joining WAN-IFRA, since the end of 2008 he worked in the office of the French minister of Culture and Communication where he was responsible for newspapers and new media as well as the “états généraux de la presse écrite,” the French government’s response to the economic difficulties facing the newspaper industry. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of development at Edipresse Publications SA in Lausanne, with responsibility for reader studies and marketing research.

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).

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.

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 Policy Advisor on economic and environmental issues at the European Federation for Print and Digital Communication (Intergraf), which represents the interests of the European graphic industry in Brussels.

Laetitia is French and holds a university degree in economics and a master degree in European economics.

Before joining Intergraf in 2012, she held for 10 years a similar position at the European federation of waste management and environmental services (FEAD), where she dealt with numerous environmental topics.

Paul Huybrechts, born 1960 in Belgium. He has a masters degree in metallurgical engineering. Paul has more than 20 years experience as production manager, plant manager and business unit manager working for an international company specialized in materials technology, working globally (activities in China, Australia, Malaysia, Norway, France, Belgium , UK and The Netherlands). Since 2007 he has worked in the news media industry as managing director of Printing Partners (belonging to Mediahuis -group ) responsible for print and distribution in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland.

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.

Dr. 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 Dr. 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.

Atte has been with UPM since 2000, driven by a deep passion for graphic paper – a versatile medium that holds immense value in today’s society. Ensuring high product performance for our customers is at the heart of my work, and my international team consistently goes the extra mile to achieve this. In recent years, he has focused on reshaping UPM´s graphic paper portfolio, which offers the broadest range of products in the industry.

Atte hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Engineering from Åbo Akademi University and currently serves as the Director of Technical Customer Service and Product Management at UPM Communication Papers.

After two professional apprenticeships, Michael studied physics at the University of Regensburg. There he was awarded a doctorate for his work in the field of biophysics and spent the first part of his career at