2007 Printing Industry Hall of Fame — Master of the Deal - Chris Colville

Colville arrived in 1994, just after CGX had gone public, and helped the company complete a pair of deals almost immediately—Jarvis Press of Dallas and Frederic Printing of Denver. He would go on to orchestrate the finalizing of roughly 50 acquisitions, an almost unheard of track record. And while the economic slump that culminated with 9/11 effectively sank the fleet of printing industry consolidation companies, CGX was better positioned to endure the major downturn and re-emerge as the pre- eminent M&A maven on the block. To say that Colville played a large role in this is not an overstatement.