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Yaşar Gűvenen has been inaugurated as the 16th President of Fespa, in a ceremony at the Fespa Awards Gala Dinner at Flora Köln during Fespa 2015 in Cologne, Germany (18-22 May 2015).

He accepted the chain of office from outgoing president and fellow Fespa board member Lascelle Barrow, who has served in the role of President since June 2013.

As Fespa President, Yaşar Gűvenen now chairs the Fespa Board and the General Assembly of the organisation’s 37 member associations and will work with Fespa CEO Neil Felton to deliver the Fespa strategy. He will also support Fespa General Secretary Sean Holt to oversee Fespa’s activities as a federation of national associations, focusing on the reinvestment of funds for the benefit of Fespa’s global community of printers through the Profit for Purpose programme.

Gűvenen, from Turkey, joined the Fespa board in 2008, following nomination by Ared, Fespa’s Turkish member association, of which he also served as President from 2006 to 2008. As a board member, he has had specific inputs to the launch and development of all exhibitions outside Western Europe, including Fespa  Eurasia in Istanbul, as well as European Sign Expo.

Fespa Board

Yaşar Gűvenen is supported by Fespa Vice President Christian Duyckaerts, who also represents Fespa’s Belgian member association Febelgra. The Fespa Board is now as follows:

• Yaşar Gűvenen – President (Turkey)
• Christian Duyckaerts – Vice President (Belgium)
• Enrico Steijn – Treasurer (Netherlands)
• Christophe Aussenac (France)
• Lascelle Barrow – (UK)
• Gyorgy Kovacs (Hungary)
• Anders Nilsson (Sweden)
• Thomas Struckmeier (Germany)