Visual Connections: Our Board
The Visual Connections Board sets the vision and strategy for Visual Connections, ensuring the association's ongoing relevance and value to the print and graphic communications sector.
Working closely with the company's management and staff, the Directors are responsible for delivering on the company's mandate: To contribute to a sustainable future by supporting our members - the industry's suppliers - and the wider sector, through initiatives including Education, Exhibitions, Sponsorship, Grants and Networking Opportunities.
The Board is comprised of eight Directors who are voluntary individuals from member companies. The Board is elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting in November each year. To find out more about nominating yourself or a colleague, please contact Peter Harper.
Meet the Directors
President | Mitchell Mulligan - Managing Director,
Bőttcher Australia
"Visual Connections provides the suppliers of our industry with a unique opportunity to speak with a united voice and make a well-considered and meaningful contributions to the industry. As suppliers, I believe we have a responsibility to our customers to ensure we engage with them and identify ways to maximise our contribution to their businesses, be that through education, best practice information, or new ideas and technologies. Visual Connections provides a platform for us to pursue such endeavours in a unified way, with tools like trade shows, conferences & seminars. For me, being on the Board is the optimal way to give back and contribute to the future of our industry."
Vice President | John Wall - Managing Director, Roland DG
Treasurer | Luke Wooldridge - National Sales Manager, Fujifilm Australia
Director | Ian Martin - General Manager - Trade,
Ferag Australia
"Our industry is so diverse, it needs an Association to represent the multiple suppliers who service it; this is where Visual Connections provides important guidance and a single voice, as well as initiatives from exhibitions to helping develop career paths for school leavers. You only get back what you put in, and being on the Visual Connections Board gives me the chance to influence and contribute to an industry which has provided me with a career across the world."
Director | Ben Eaton - CEO,
Starleaton
"Visual Connections has led the way for association consolidation and collaboration. With a strong focus on education and a sustainable future for our industry, Visual Connections is taking an active approach to attracting new talent to the various industry sectors we represent. In a mature, highly competitive space like ours, providing a unified voice to tackle the issues that face the market as a whole is critical. Diversity ensures we are best placed to meet the challenges ahead, and I’m happy to bring my perspective to the Board."
Director | David Hay - Managing Director, Metalplaque
Director | Anthony Parnemann - Manager – South East Asia,
EFI Australia
"Visual Connections provides a united forum to bring companies and people together, to share and learn as we support and help shape our industry. The friendship and insights of other industry leaders have made me better, both personally and professionally, and I count those relationships across the industry among my greatest achievements. I've always had the desire to contribute back to the industry that sustains me; being on the Visual Connections Board is a great way to do that."
