Beijing Founder Electronics launches European subsidary

In order to provide local sales and service support to its increasing number of customers in Europe, Beijing Founder Electronics Limited has announced the launch of a European subsidiary, Founder Europe SA, based in the prestigious Bastion Tower in the center of Brussels, Belgium.

J. Derek Fearn, Founder’s European sales and marketing director, has been appointed to the board of Founder Europe SA and takes on the additional responsibility of general manager, running day-to-day operations. 

Assisting Derek Fearn is Philippe Duval, technical support manager, who will also assume responsibilities for customer training and assist with operations. 

Mr Duval previously held senior product and support positions with Agfa both in its worldwide headquarters in Belgium and in Wilmington, USA, where his responsibilities included managing engineering quality assurance, customer support and documentation.

‘We are lucky to have someone of Philippe’s knowledge and experience to lead our support organization in Europe,’ said Derek Fearn. ‘He will add a great deal of professionalism and enthusiasm for making sure that our RIP, workflow, color proofing and other products more than meet customers expectations, and that we provide the level of support and training for our distribution and OEM partners that will set us apart.’                      

Founder Group, which reported 2003 revenues of $2.5 billion, is a provider of advanced information technology, software products, business solutions, and other value-added services. Founder Electronics, with headquarters in Beijing and regional offices in North America and a regional headquarters Europe, is a provider of digital cross-media solutions for prepress, printing, publishing, the Internet and digital media. Founder Electronics' ISO9001 and CMM3 certificated Research and Development center has been recognized as China's State Laboratory for word and information processing, as well as the State Engineering Research Center for Electronic Publishing.