Michael Ring Joins Gallus as VP, Worldwide Sales and Marketing Digital Solutions
Michael Ring has joined the Gallus Group as vice president, worldwide sales and marketing digital solutions.
Ring is a proven executive with 27 years of experience in digital printing and will strengthen the company’s expertise in the digital label market. Ring will be responsible for worldwide sales and marketing activities for the new DCS 340 digital label converting line. This underlines the company's direction to expand in this market segment.
From 2007 to 2014, Ring worked at Xeikon America, first as chief marketing officer and vice president of sales, North America and then as president, North America. He also worked as vice president, worldwide marketing at Xeikon NV. Prior to Xeikon, he held several key positions with various companies, including Kodak and Xerox.
“The combination of Michael’s extensive knowledge in digital printing and his proven track record of successfully developing and positioning digital printing technology, will bring a lot of benefits into our organization and will make Gallus’s solution offering to our customers clearly better," said Klaus Bachstein, CEO of Gallus. "The buildup of our digital expert team is on track and we are thereby continuously expanding our competence in digital converting.”
According to Ring, “Gallus is known for its leadership in the label and packaging markets. Being part of a team that will bring the next generation of digital technology and redefine the benchmark for digital in this space is incredibly exciting."
Ring will be employed at Gallus Inc., USA and will work out of Philadelphia and St. Gallen, Switzerland, reporting to Christof Naier, vice president, sales and services.
