Paul Rudd - Chairman
Joined the Printers’ Charitable Corporation as a Trustee in September 1999, made Deputy Chairman in 2006.
Introduced to the printing industry in 1963 by his father who worked for Beaverbrook Newspapers for 51 years. Joined Beaverbrook Newspapers in September 1963 as a junior clerk and worked up through the company spending time in finance and general management before eventually being appointed to the main board as Production & Operations Director, also deputising for the Managing Director. Left Express Newspapers in 2001 to join Associated Newspapers. Retired in May 2007 from the post of Facilities Operations Director at Associated Newspapers
Since commencing his career in printing, he has held a number of other positions both in and out of the industry.
Currently Chairman of Express Newspapers Pension Funds and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of the Stationers and Newspaper Makers. In the past he was Chairman of West Ferry Printers and Broughton Printers, Chairman of Newsprint Management and Supply Services, Director of the Newspaper Education Trust, Director of the Newspaper Publishers Association and Director of the Independent Star (Eire).
For seven years, whilst employed by Express Newspapers, he had company operational responsibility for the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (H.E.M.S.), the first to operate in the London region.