The winds of change: 16 February 2011

Momentum just keeps growing in the printing industry. This week sees Amanda Brook leave Wellcom; Mark Harvey move on to general manager at Good Impressions, while Jacqueline Ibrahim, still at HP, is appointed to the Imaging & Printing Group South Pacific core leadership team as head of marketing.

Brook bids farewell to Wellcom

Just over a year after joining Wellcom as CEO, Amanda Brook (pictured) has left the company. Reasons and an exact date of her departure are unknown but when Print21 contacted the Wellcom head office in Melbourne, we were informed that a new CEO is yet to be found.

Brook joined Wellcom in January last year from Sensis , where she was as general manager mobile advertising. At the time, founder and Chairman, Wayne Sidwell said the addition of Amanda Brook would strengthen the Group’s senior management team. “She is very well credentialed with a lot of good retail experience. I will be spending more time in Asia as we grow our business there, so it’s important to have extra management resources at home,” he said.

Sidwell did not return calls at the time of going to press.

Harvey heads to Good Impressions

Well-known trans-Tasman print identity, Mark Harvey, has moved on Good Impressions at Sydney where he fills the role of general manager at the sheet fed, full-service printer which offers both conventional and digital printing solutions.

Prior to Good Impressions, Harvey worked at Canon and, prior to that, Geon. His career in printing began in New Zealand at Rush Print in Hawke’s Bay under owner Robert Penman.

Beginning at Good Impressions in January this year, Harvey said the move was driven by a desire to “get back into the print game.”

“The corporate world wasn’t my cup of tea,” he told Print21. “Canon gave me the opportunity to look inside a lot of printing businesses and see how they were placed and it’s really exciting to be here [at Good Impressions] with such good equipment and a good sales team.”

For the full Harvey story, click here to read his interview with Print21 magazine last year.

Ibrahim leads leadership team

Long-time HP marketing manager, Jacqueline Ibrahim – better known to most in the industry as ‘Jacq’ has been appointed to the IPG SP Core Leadership Team as the head of marketing (IPG SP) at HP.

Ibrahim (pictured) has been with HP since 1998, joining the company as an intern after completing a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) at RMIT.  Since then, she has worked in various marketing communications roles across the organisation. 

“It is great to work on a brand that is leading the market in all categories with the latest innovations such as HP ePrint, which allows people to print just by sending an email, through to managed print solutions for business and the latest in commercial digital print solutions,” she said. “These innovations all have huge benefits for the end-users while making it a very exciting time for the industry”.