Hahnemühle is delighted to announce the appointments of Nancy Janes to the position of Hahnemühle UK & Ireland Managing Director and Simon Waller to the position General Manager Hahnemühle USA. All appointments become effective as of 1 March 2022.
“In line with the excellent growth of the Hahnemühle Group worldwide, I am excited to expand the management team with outstanding business leaders to prepare and scale up Hahnemühle´s Go-to-Market regions per the long-term planning. All of them are commercially focused senior leaders, experienced with global companies across the paper and printing industry or already with Hahnemühle and responsible for great achievements within our company” stated Jan Wölfle, President and CEO Hahnemühle-Group.
Nancy Janes´ charter is to take both roles, the General Manager as well as Managing Director for Hahnemühle UK & Ireland. She has a proven track record in driving positive customer, business and employee outcomes. Nancy is experienced across UK & Ireland, EMEA and worldwide in the Commercial, Publishing and Packaging printing markets. She has extensive leadership experience, with expertise in sales, marketing, solutions, channel management, commercial strategy, digital printing capabilities, business development and partnerships. The wealth of experience Nancy brings, will enrich the existing Hahnemühle UK team and contribute to accelerating success.
Relevant highlights from her professional experience include her most recent role as Global Publishing Solutions Business Director at HP, where she established HP as a “thought leader” partnering with brands like Adobe, Mondelez, Danone, Pearson Publishing etc. to enable Print-Service-Providers transitioning their analogue to digital workflows, utilizing the benefits of digital graphics creations and digital Publishing / Packaging. Most notably, Nancy was HP Country Manager for HP Indigo, HP Inkjet high speed webpress, Wide Format (Latex, Aqueous, UV), and PageWide and achieved best performing region results in EMEA. During that assignment she was being named the 16th most influential person in the UK printing industry by PrintWeek.
Hahnemühle is using this change to enable Simon Waller, General Manager UK & Ireland since 2005, to make a career move.Simon Waller is appointed General Manager Hahnemühle USA with nearly 25 years of experience in Hahnemühle (former Schleicher & Schuell Group). He drove the UK team successfully in Digital FineArt, Artist’ Papers and Filtration/Life Science. Most notably, he prepared UK Region for Brexit and established B2B and B2C Web-Shop and Direct Sales capabilities during the last years.
These appointments complete important steps in Hahnemühle’s Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy. “With this newly structured organisation our tradition rich company will drive the development of new products and services to new levels in a challenging business and competitive environment. Hahnemühle offers everyone the opportunity to work internationally and implement personal career and succession plans”, concludes Jan Wölfle, President and CEO Hahnemühle-Group.
About Hahnemühle
Hahnemühle FineArt has been producing paper since 1584. Today’s portfolio includes traditional and digital FineArt papers for painting and all types of printing techniques as well as stationery products. The customised production of high-purity papers for life science applications and speciality papers are also part of the manufacturing portfolio.
All paper grades are produced according to old recipes from high-quality cotton fibres, cellulose or fast-growing plant fibres and pure spring water. They have best-in-class quality characteristics and are highly resitant to ageing. Hahnemühle has an excellent reputation worldwide as German “Brand of the Century”. Its products are available in more than 130 countries worldwide.
The company has its headquarters in Dassel in southern Lower Saxony and subsidiaries in Great Britain, France, USA, Singapore and China.
With its “Green Rooster” initiative, Hahnemühle has been supporting environmental protection projects worldwide since 2008, including reforestation, animal welfare and environmental education programmes. The long-established company produces papers in a landscape conservation area under strict environmental regulations and and, with its sustainable paper production, makes an important contribution to environmental and climate protection.
For more information on the brand, history and environmental responsibility, visit www.hahnemuehle.com
