Michael Makin was President of Canadian Printing Industries Association from 1995 to 2001

PIASC announces  Michael Makin, former CEO of Printing Industries of America (PIA),  as its Executive of the Year. “Michael was chosen for this honour because his many years of tireless efforts as a champion of print, both nationally and locally. From 1995 to 2001 Michael served as the president of the Canadian Printing Industries Association.

In 2001 he was recruited to come to the U.S. as COO of PIA.

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He was then promoted to CEO in 2002 and has served in that role for 18 years.“I loved print from the beginning,” Michael recalls, “and still love it too this day.” When President of PIA Michael had expressed this love by being the “voice of print.”