On May 1 Eef de Ridder was appointed Director Commercial Printing of Ricoh Europe’s new Commercial and Industrial Printing Group, formerly the Production Printing Business Group. Eef has worked for Ricoh Europe for nine years, most recently heading up the Commercial Print/Graphic Arts business. He will be responsible for all Production Printing Solutions sold in the Graphic Arts and Corporate/Enterprise market. 

Eef joined Ricoh in 2008 as Vice President Commercial Print Industry. Prior to that he ran Knighthood, his own sales and marketing consultancy company, which he established after more than 20 years with Xerox. He replaces Benoit Chatelard, who we thank for his valuable contribution, and will report to Peter Williams, Commercial and Industrial Printing Group Global Leader.