Patrick Chapuis appointed President and CEO of Oce North America

In his new role Chapuis will have responsibility for the Oce North America sales, marketing, service, operations, finance and support functions. Oce North America is comprised of the Document Printing Systems division, which serves the office, education and government markets; the Production Printing Systems division, which serves the transaction and graphic arts markets; and the Wide Format Printing Systems division, which serves the architectural, engineering, construction and display graphics markets.

Chapuis has extensive experience in the printing industry. He has been responsible for successfully leading the Oce North America Wide Format Printing Systems division for the past eight years. Before coming to the United States, Mr. Chapuis managed the wide format business of Oce France. Prior to that, he managed the sales and operations for France, Belgium and Holland for Kodak Office Imaging and the French operating company for Danka Office Imaging. Earlier in his career, he held a number of sales positions for Gestetner and was part of the IBM France controlling group.

Rokus van Iperen, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Oce N.V., said, "Patrick Chapuis is well qualified to lead Oce North America, the largest operating company of the worldwide Oce Group. He has decades of experience in both wide and narrow format printing in North America and Europe, and has consistently delivered outstanding results. I am confident that under his leadership Oce North America will continue to prosper. On behalf of the Board and the entire company, we express our gratitude to Joe Skrzypczak for his outstanding performance during his tenure over the last seven years. We wish him great success in his future endeavors."