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Wyndeham Appoints Group Technical Directors

31st March 2005

The Wyndeham Press Group plc, today announces the appointment of Barry Fitzpatrick and David Brown as group technical directors, newly created roles for the Group.

Barry Fitzpatrick is currently technical director at Wyndeham Graphics and David Brown is technical director at Wyndeham Heron. They take on these new positions in addition to their current responsibilities and will work together to drive Wyndeham’s technical strategy and development in its core pre-press, publishing and commercial print markets.

Barry Fitzpatrick becomes responsible for Wyndeham’s pre-press division, including Wyndeham Argent and the Wyndeham Graphics companies, where he is developing its portfolio of web based workflows and flat-planning systems. David Brown takes on responsibility for the pre-press and technical solutions at Wyndeham’s eight sheet-fed and web offset print sites, including the continued roll out of Agfa Delano as a project management tool for magazine publishers.

Within the Wyndeham businesses, Barry and David will head up the strategic technical development teams encompassing such areas as workflow, colour management and communications. The team will work together on initiatives to integrate the entire workflow process from file creation to pre-press and print using JDF and other industry standards.

“We are delighted to appoint Barry and David to these new positions as they have tremendous technical skills and are very well respected in the industry,” said Paul Utting, CEO. “By combining Wyndeham’s pre-press and print technologies we can leverage our offering to provide real, tangible benefits for customers and create competitive advantage.”

Barry Fitzpatrick has been at Wyndeham Graphics since it acquired Wace Publication Imaging in 1997. He is a member of the PPA’s steering committee for technical development and was instrumental in the development of the Pass for Press and Pic for Press standards.

David Brown has been technical director at Wyndeham Heron for eight years. During this time he has been responsible for developing workflows to enable an early move to pdf and CTP with great success for Wyndeham Heron and its customers. Through this period a close relationship has been established with Agfa leading to Wyndeham Heron becoming a beta test site developing Apogee, Sublima and Delano.