Speakers

Roger Pellow

Managing Director / Labelexpo Global Series
Roger Pellow - Managing Director

Roger joined Tarsus in 2001 as Managing Director for the group's Labels Division, which has now expanded to include package printing. The Labels and Packaging Group runs nine Labelexpo exhibitions and conferences across the globe, including...
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Jay Gouliard

Vice President, Global Segment Innovation / Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials
Jay Gouliard - Vice President, Global Segment Innovation

Jay L. Gouliard, is Global Vice President of Segment Innovation for Avery Dennison. He is responsible for building an innovation pipeline and delivering differentiated segment-specific innovations to the global market based upon end-user and...
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Corey Reardon

President and Chief Executive Officer / AWA Alexander Watson Associates
Corey Reardon - President and Chief Executive Officer

Corey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and graduated from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio in Marketing and Strategic Planning specializing in Strategy and Implementation, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Illinois,...
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Gill Loubser

Editorial Director and Joint Publisher / PACKAGiNG & Print Media

Gill Loubser, Editorial Director and Co-Publisher of South Africa’s premier trade magazine, PACKAGiNG & Print Media, not only has many years’ experience in publishing — particularly in specialist, technical and trade publishing...
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Sachen Gudka

Chief Executive Officer / Interlabels Africa

Sachen Gudka is a Chartered Accountant by profession, and is the Chief Executive Officer of a diverse group of printing companies in Kenya. The group comprises: The Rodwell Press Limited, one of Kenya’s oldest, largest and most reputed offset...
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Andy Thomas

Group Managing Editor / Labels & Labeling
Andy Thomas - Group Managing Editor

Andy Thomas is Group Managing Editor of Labels and Labeling magazine and Labels and Labeling Asia-Pacific, both published by the Tarsus Labels Group. Andy has been writing about the packaging and printing industry for 15 years, having previously...
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Mark Anley

Packaging Technology Manager / Shoprite

Mark is a packaging technology and development specialist with almost 10 years’ experience in the industry. He started at Indigo cosmetics and after a few years moved to the UK where he was responsible for private label food packaging...
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Leal Wright

General Manager, Labels and Packaging Division / Uniprint
Leal Wright - General Manager, Labels and Packaging Division

Leal worked in engineering manufacturing at Murray and Roberts for 8 years before joining Alex White Holdings Limited as Managing Director of the litho print division. In this role he pioneered the manufacture of sheet printed IML labels in South...
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Jeremy Ferrow

Managing Director / Ferroprint

Jeremy Ferrow matriculated at Maritzburg College in 1976 and worked for accountants Alex, Aitken & Carter whilst studying at Durban University. He joined Allied Publishing as an internal auditor and was quickly promoted to Manager of the...
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Stefan Gerber

Marketing and Sales Director and Winemaker / Boer & Brit
Stefan Gerber  - Marketing and Sales Director and Winemaker

Stefan Gerber grew up in a home full of creativity; his father is a renowned filmmaker and copy writer. Apart from being in a creative space he was also encouraged to be liberal in his thinking and to be a leader and not a follower. Everybody can...
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Zoyon le Sueur

Technical Director, Collotype Labels RSA / Multi-Color Corporation
Zoyon le Sueur - Technical Director, Collotype Labels RSA

Zoyon holds a Diploma in Print Management. With more than 20 years of experience in broad aspects of the pressure sensitive label industry (initially at Avery Label Systems, later S.A.Litho, and recently at Collotype Labels), he has contributed to...
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Klaus Bachstein

Chief Executive Officer / Gallus
Klaus Bachstein - Chief Executive Officer

From 1978 to 1983 Klaus Bachstein studied for his MBA in Innsbruck, Austria and New Orleans, US. He later completed an executive management program at the University of St.Gallen, the Swiss Federal University of Technology, both Switzerland, and...
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Callie de Wet

Managing Director / Paarl Labels
Callie de Wet - Managing Director

Callie received a B Comm (Law) from the University of Port Elizabeth in 1975. He then joined the legal administration department of K.W.V., one of the major role players in the South African wine industry. During 1977, he moved to the agricultural...
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Nigel Deary

Creative and Pre-Press Director / Calibre Brand Solutions
Nigel Deary - Creative and Pre-Press Director

Nigel studied Graphic Design at the Ruth Prowse School of Art and directly after graduating, started working at J. Walter Thomson in Cape Town as a junior finished artist in 1983. Here, he worked in the design department, where he discovered his...
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Ruud Wigman

Market Manager Labels, Europe, Middle East and Africa / Innovia Films
Ruud Wigman - Market Manager Labels, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Ruud studied business administration and strategic marketing management (NIMA-C) in The Netherlands. He started his career for UCB Films as Sales Manager of Packaging Films, Benelux & France. In 1998 he switched to the emerging labels business...
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Adele Carstens

Packaging Manager / Clicks
Adele Carstens - Packaging Manager

Adele Carstens is currently studying towards a Masters degree in Packaging Technology Management through Brunel University in London. In 2006, she obtained a Diploma in Packaging Technology through the Institute of Packaging South Africa. Adele has...
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Susane Exsteen

Technical Manager / Clicks
Susane Exsteen - Technical Manager

Susane graduated from the Durban University of Technology in Food & Packaging Technology. Susane has 18 years of technical experience in the manufacturing of foods, health care and personal care. Susane has made a move a move into the retail...
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Christian Menegon

Business Development Manager / Hewlett-Packard Indigo
Christian Menegon - Business Development Manager

Christian started his career by servicing pen plotters. He then moved to application support for CAD/CAM systems with Scitex for 10 years. From there, he became a user of the systems he was promoting as Production Manager for a repro house active in...
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Grant Watson

Sales Director / Rotolabel
Grant Watson - Sales Director

Grant Watson has worked in the label printing industry for over 15 years. His initial focus was sales and marketing but as the Sales Director at Rotolabel his experience of the various markets, suppliers and industry itself is unsurpassed. Rotolabel...
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Kiril Dimitrov

Packaging Technologist / Woolworths
Kiril Dimitrov - Packaging Technologist

Kiril graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the University of Pretoria in Chemical Engineering. He then obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from GIBS, Johannesburg. Kiril completed a BEng (Hons) in Polymer...
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Danielle Jerschefske

North America Editor / Labels & Labeling
Danielle Jerschefske - North America Editor

Danielle is the North America Editor for Labels & Labeling magazine, holding a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. With L&L, she has authored feature articles on such topics as: major...
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Rianie Strydom

Rianie Strydom / Haskell Vineyards
Rianie Strydom - Rianie Strydom

Rianie Strydom is consultant winemaker for among other wineries, Haskell Vineyards in Stellenbosch. Rianie is a mother of three and married to Louis Strydom, Head Winemaker and Managing Director for Ernie Els Wines. Rianie completed her B.Sc Agric...
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Jan Solms

Creative Director / Fanakalo

Jan Solms is a founding partner in the small design company Fanakalo. After studying at Stellenbosch and gaining experience in the industry, Fanakalo was started in what must have been a one-horse stable at the back of one of the historic houses in...
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Rohan Etsebeth

Creative Director / Fanakalo

Rohan Etsebeth is a founding partner in the small design company Fanakalo. After studying at Stellenbosch and gaining experience in the industry, Fanakalo was started in what must have been a one-horse stable at the back of one of the historic...
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Filip Weymans

Marketing and Business Development Manager, Labels and Packaging / Xeikon
Filip Weymans - Marketing and Business Development Manager

Filip Weymans is currently employed as Global Business Development Manager for Labels and Packaging at Xeikon, manufacturers of Xeikon digital presses and flexo CTP equipment. He started his Xeikon career in 1998, in the after-sales department...
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Zenna Parfaniuk

Director / The Label Makers
Zenna Parfaniuk - Director

Zenna Parfaniuk has been with The Label Makers, one of the UK’s leading independent manufacturers of self adhesive labels since 1987. Starting her career in the Accounts Department, Zenna became the Administration Manager in 1989, taking...
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Jean du Toit

Managing Director / Boland Cellar
Jean du Toit - Managing Director

Born in 1962 in Cape Town, Jean graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a BSc in Agriculture in 1985. He then received a BSc in Agriculture (Hons) Cum Laude from the University of Stellenbosch in 1986, followed by a Masters Degree in...
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