Screen GP Europe president Brian Filler is to retire at the end September after 35 years with the company. He will be succeeded by Takanori Kakita, currently chairman of Screen GP Europe.
Filler said: “It’s a good time to leave when there is a real feeling of optimism in our industry. I shall of course be sad to leave it but I have been very fortunate to have been involved during such a tumultuous but exciting period for print.”
Having started out in the industry in 1966 as an apprentice photolithographer with Stellar Press in Barnet, Filler joined Screen UK in 1981 and became managing director in 2000. He was appointed senior vice-president of Screen Europe in 2010 and president in 2013. He has also been closely involved with industry associations, acting as president of the APMI from 2006 to 2008 and, after the APMI merged with Picon, as chairman of Picon between 2009 to 2011.