Brian Filler, President of Screen GP Europe announces retirement

Brian Filler, President of SCREEN GP Europe, will retire at the end September after 35 years with the company.

The announcement signals the departure of one of the industry’s best-known and most respected figures after 50 years spent working in the print industry. Brian started out in 1966 as an apprentice photolithographer with Stellar Press a printing company based in Barnet. After completing his apprenticeship he then joined a trade platemaking company called Satellite becoming studio manager. His sales career began with John Hadland Graphic Arts selling vertical cameras film processors and the ECRM Autokon scanner.

In 1981 Brian joined Screen UK in sales becoming Managing Director in 2000. He was appointed Senior Vice-President of Screen Europe in 2010 and President in 2013. He has played a significant part in Screen’s technology evolution from scanners through to computer-to-film and computer-to-plate to, most recently, high-speed production digital inkjet presses for transactional, label and wide-format applications.

He has also been closely involved with industry associations, acting as President of the APMI from 2006 to 2008 and, after the APMI merged with Picon, as Chairman of Picon between 2009 to 2011. Away from work, Brian is a passionate golfer, a keen photographer, and a committed family man.

“I shall of course be sad to leave the industry,” says Brian, “but I have been very fortunate to have been involved during such a tumultuous but exciting period for print and to have worked with Screen - a visionary technology development company. Over the years I have managed and have worked with an excellent team in the UK and across the rest of Europe and have made a great many friends throughout the industry. To witness printing companies reinvent their businesses using inkjet technology, and to have helped them do so, has been immensely satisfying and inspiring. It’s a good time to leave when there is a real feeling of optimism in our Industry.

Brian will be succeeded by Takanori Kakita, currently Chairman of Screen GP Europe.