Adrian Shepherd is set to bring board level strategic management expertise to his new role at Allen Coding Systems, following his appointment as managing director.
Allen Coding Systems is a division of ITW - leading European provider of thermal transfer, hot foil and laser coding & marking systems.
His responsibilities will include efforts to increase focus on the organisational and operational development of the Hertfordshire-based company's business activities. In addition, he will adopt a similar role for sister organisation ITW Betaprint located in Barcelona.
"Our initial strategy is to increase focus on EMEA as we have considerable strength in this area," Shepherd said. "In fact, we're winning customers who feel neglected by recent mergers. However, we've also recently won significant orders in the US and South America, Australia and South Africa. Asia is also looking very promising."
Prior to joining Allen Coding Systems, Shrpherd was CEO of KCC Inc, a privately owned packaging consultancy, which he started, grew and subsequently sold. Previous to this he was president at Imaje USA, where he successfully built the company's Atlanta-based manufacturing operation.
During his earlier career, Adrian worked for other high profile organisations including GEC, Willett and Videojet.