OTTAWA—Jeff Ekstein has been named secretary of the board of directors of the Printing Industries of America for 2010-2011. The appointment takes place as of November 2010.

Ekstein, who has been the Canadian Printing Industries Association representative to the Printing Industries of America board of directors since 2007 and chairman of its education committee since 2009 says he is very proud of his recent appointment. “I am proud as a Canadian to have an influential position on a U.S. board,” he says. “The officers position puts me in line to become chair of the Printing Industries of America in 2013. I am quite proud of this considering there have only been two Canadians before me to hold that position.”