The Central Coast-based print management company first started working with Di Stefano last year to prepare its bid for the NSW government tender. He took on the role of strategic relationship manager on 1 February this year.

However, the relationship goes back a lot further. E-Bisprint managing director Paul Freeman actually worked with Di Stefano 25 years ago at John Heathcote Printing Group.

Di Stefano (pictured) said: “Paul is somebody I have admired with what he has done with building that organisation from scratch. I have always maintained a healthy respect for Paul as an operator.”

Freeman told ProPrint that hiring Di Stefano “gives us a great level of confidence that someone so highly regarded in the industry can see the potential in us”.

Freeman said it was all part of an expansion period at E-Bisprint, which has also recently appointed logistics manager Jack Miller, who had 30 years’ experience at IBM.

Di Stefano’s remit is to help E-Bisprint sharpen its skills with corporate and public sector clients. As well as having managed the $200m Sydney Olympics budget, which covered publishing, design and print, he also spent three years re-engineering procurement for Commonwealth Bank’s then-$40m annual print spend.

He has also worked with the NSW Department of Education, Westpac, NRMA Insurance, St George Bank, American Express and the University of Sydney.

Di Stefano said he was drawn to E-Bisprint thanks to its combination of “great technology” and “positive culture” and would now help “finesse their solutions in keeping with the strong principles of strategic sourcing”.

“Understanding the technology and the people is one thing but taking that from good to great takes the infusion of those strategic sourcing principles,” he said.

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