Horst-Walter Hauer, General Manager, Büro Hauer, Germany 

He is 30 years internationally active in printing press design. From 1981-2007 KBA, Germany: Dept. Manager R & D, then Assistant to the Vice President Technology, Senior Manager of Planning / Project Management Newspaper Presses and at last Senior Manager of Strategic Investment Planning of the KBA Sales. Since 2008 he is the General Manager of IBH – Engineering for Print and Project Technology - and is responsible for strategic investment calculation and planning, design and project management for printing presses and retrofits. He is an authorized and court-appointed expert for printing presses and systems.