Former QI Press Controls Australia managing director James Haisman has joined Screen Australia to run the company’s northern region.
The move – which includes relocation from Melbourne to Sydney – comes after an interregnum during which he left the industry to study law, and he is currently three years into a juris doctor degree at Monash University.
As northern region manager for Screen, he will cover NSW, ACT and Queensland.
A Briton with a degree in international studies who attended England’s elite Sandhurst military college before going to work with a corona treatment speaialist, he appeared on the Australian scene as international sales manager for PressTech, the Crosfield spin-off selling colour registration systems for newspaper and heatset web presses. When US rival QTI bought the business in 2005 and merged it into QuadTech, he left to set up the Australian subsidiary of Dutch competitor QI Press Controls, building it to become a market leader with all the country’s newspaper publishers as its customers.
Although Screen intersects with the newspaper industry through its involvement in CTP and digital printing, it’s clear Haisman’s new role will take him to a much wider market.
“I have always been motivated by close dealings with customers, determining the best solutions for their businesses and following-through to ensure mutual success,” he says. “I am delighted to get onboard with Screen and look forward to re-acquainting myself with customers who I know and to meeting new ones.”
Screen managing director Peter Scott is delighted to recruit “someone of James’ global experience and achievements”.
“His commercial skills are very advanced and he is accustomed to negotiating capital equipment investments within the printing industry that fall within the price range in which we operate. I believe that customers will find it a pleasure meeting and dealing with him and all of us at Screen welcome him onboard.”