AKTUELLE INFORMATIONEN
A New TIPA Board Elected in Cape Town 02/04/2012
MADRID, 30/03/2012
The
2012 General Assembly of the TIPA association took place from 22 to 24
March in Cape Town, South Africa. The four-year terms of three members
of the board (of five people) ended on this occasion. These were the
Chairman, Mr. Thomas Gerwers, Secretary, Mr. Johan Elzenga and
Treasurer, Mr. Juan Varela. The first two stood again and pledged to
continue their work developing the association. They were duly
re-elected by the members. Given that Mr. Varela has decided to retire,
he did not stand for another term. There were two candidates to succeed
him: Ms. Louise Donald of PiX magazine (South Africa) and Mr. Roland
Franken of digit! magazine (Germany). A majority of members voted for
Ms. Louise Donald. She therefore joined the board of the Chairman, Mr.
Thomas Gerwers, Vice-Presidents, Mr. Giulio Forti and Mr.
Jean-Christophe Béchet and Secretary, Mr. Johan Elzenga. The board is
now more global than ever with its first woman board member and its
first from the southern hemisphere. The Board's other four members all
come from European countries.
The General Assembly then continued with the election of the 40
TIPA Award winning products for this year. The winners will be
announced on 16 April 2012.
