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Executive Q&A—Wim Maes, Summa

Cary Sherburne talks to Wim Maes, Executive Member of the Board at Summa NV, a global leader in cutting and finishing equipment for the printing, signage, outdoor advertising, packaging, and textiles industries.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Many of our readers will remember Wim Maes for his tenure as the CEO of Xeikon from 2009 to 2017. In parallel, he was also President of Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions from 2015 until 2017. Today, Maes is an Executive Member of the Board at Summa NV (www.summa.eu), a global leader in cutting and finishing equipment for the printing, signage, outdoor advertising and packaging industries, most recently adding solutions for textiles to the mix.

Printing News: Wim, let’s start by talking about how you got involved in the printing industry in the first place.

Wim Maes: To be honest, my background is in engineering, and my first real association with the printing industry was as CEO of Xeikon, a role I took on in 2009. I spent six years in R&D, six years in sales and did two turnaround stories for The Punch Group. This included development of robots for milking cows, on-board computers for trucks, etc. I didn’t really know the difference between an offset printer and a flexo printer.


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Cary Sherburne is a well-known author, journalist and marketing consultant whose practice is focused on marketing communications strategies for the printing and publishing industries.

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