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Mimaki Europe, a leading manufacturer of inkjet printers and cutting technologies, has announced the appointment of Takao Terashima as the new Managing Director.
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tarting his career in Mimaki in 1997 as part of the R&D Department, Terashima has developed his extensive expertise in Mimaki’s technology portfolio and the surrounding market over the past 26 years. Throughout his time at the company, he has taken up various senior positions across the company. Prior to this new role, he was Senior General Manager of the Asia Oceania Business Unit, a position he first started in 2017. Before this, he spent six months as Senior Deputy General Manager of Quality Management between April and October 2017. Terashima’s career path has led him to work beyond Mimaki’s headquarters in Japan, in positions across Mimaki’s branches. He spent four years as Managing Director of Mimaki Singapore
thinking, business and team-building skills, as well as his extensive company knowledge, to this new role. Excited by this latest challenge, Terashima comments “I am delighted to take on the role of Managing Director of Mimaki Europe, in what is a landmark year for the branch. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the European headquarters, we can look back on the past two decades proudly, thanks to the ongoing hard-work and effort of the team.
Takao Terashima has recently been appointed as the new Managing Director at Mimaki Europe
between 2013 and 2017, and he also worked at Mimaki USA early in his career as part of the technical support staff. Succeeding Takahiro Hiraki as Managing Director of Mimaki Europe, Terashima will bring his industry expertise, analytical
Looking to the future, it is key to ensure our principles of innovation, collaboration, and sustainability continue to drive us to provide excellence for our customers. Being part of this company and the print industry for over 25 years, I am committed to taking Mimaki into the next 20 years of success.”
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xclusive Mimaki distributor, Hybrid Services, has appointed Rob Kaziewicz in the newly created role of Assistant Technical Manager, as it further strengthens its Technical Services team. Kaziewicz joins the company with over 30 years’ experience in the wide format printing industry, having held senior positions at reseller and distributor level, as well as being one of the founders of former Mimaki authorised reseller partner, GPT, in 2008.
Kaziewicz appointment bolsters Hybrid Technical Services team technical teams.”
Kaziewicz cites many factors that attracted him to the role; “Mimaki’s heritage, breadth of product portfolio and innovative approach to bringing new products to market are all important to me and were key considerations in making this move,” he states. “Having worked with Hybrid for a large part of my career, it really feels good to join
back up with a team of friends and colleagues in my new role.” Adams concludes, “It’s great to have Rob on board. His professional approach and extensive knowledge of Mimaki products and our wider industry are already having a significant impact.”
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“Rob’s appointment is a key strategical move for Hybrid, and his decades of customer-facing, technical Mimaki experience will be a major asset to our business,” states Hybrid’s Technical Manager, Chris Adams. “He brings a huge amount of knowhow in the wide format industry and will be heavily involved in every aspect of our support function, including engineer and sales training, customer support and liaising with our reseller partners and Mimaki’s
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