Brown Printing Makes Top Management Change

Volker Petersen earned a Mechanical Engineering degree at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 1984, and then from 1985 to 1988, attended Iowa State University, earning an MS degree and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. He joined the Printing Division of G+J in 1988 and, in his first assignment, participated in the startup of pre-press facilities in Franklin, KY, and in Riverside, CA. In 1996, after seven years in the United States with Brown, and the last two as production manager for two pre-press facilities, Volker transferred back to Hamburg to assume responsibility as the manager of controlling for the G+J Printing Division. One year later, he returned to Brown Printing as the VP/GM of the new Woodstock Division, formed from the 1997 acquisition of Graftek Press. After leading the successful integration of this acquisition, in 2002, he returned to Hamburg as managing director of the G+J Printing Division, with leadership responsibility for all G+J printing operations, including Brown Printing. In 2005, he assumed his current responsibilities as the rotogravure printing operations in Germany of Bertelsmann’s arvato, G+J, and Axel Springer merged to form Prinovis. Volker, his wife, Kim, and their two daughters, Nicole (14) and Krista (11), will be relocating from Hamburg to Minnesota this summer.