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SGP Elects New Officers for 2016

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8 years ago

December 18, 2015

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading certification organization for the print industry, is pleased to announce the election of its Officers and Board of Directors for 2016.

Lynn Krinsky, President, Stella Color, Seattle, WA, was unanimously elected to serve as Chair, SGP Board of Directors. Certified since 2010, Ms. Krinsky will lead the SGP Board for a two-year term. Also elected to the SGP Executive Committee were Theresa Vanna, Transilwrap, as Secretary; Doreen Monteleone, D2 Advisory Group/Flexographic Technical Association, as Treasurer; Jonathan Graham, TE Connectivity, as Chair, Marketing Committee; and Marcia Y. Kinter, Specialty Graphic Imaging Association as Chair, Technical Committee.

Newly elected Board Members include: Libra Balian, Ann Inc.; Carlos Lahoz-Buch, HP; John Heaney, Advertisers Printing Company; Lou Liotta, Novitex Enterprise Solutions; Francis Poirier, Jr., Specialty Printing, LLC; Jodi Sawyer, FLEXcon; and Christine Grant, Digital Color Concepts. Paul Lilienthal, Pictura Graphics moves to the Immediate Past Chair position.

“I am honored to accept the position as Chair, SGP Board of Directors,” Lynn Krinsky indicated in remarks before the SGP Board of Directors in November. “We have a group of diverse individuals all of whom are committed to creating an even stronger SGP program! I look forward to working with each one in the year ahead.”

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Creating a More Diverse and Inclusive Screen Printing Industry

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