Webstar boss to become Blue Star CEO

Blue Star has appointed its first chief executive in a major restructure that sees several key executives promoted to positions of greater responsibility as it pushes towards further growth and industry consolidation.

Managing director Geoff Selig will become executive chairman and continue as head of the business while Webstar boss Warwick Hay will fill the group chief executive role, taking reports from all other division heads as an extra layer of management between Selig and day-to day operations.

Hay has been with the company for five years, mostly running the heatset web offset division in Australia and New Zealand.

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Selig says Blue Star is fortunate to have someone of Hay’s calibre stepping into such an important leadership role at this time.

“The business is placed to leverage our market position over the years ahead as we continue to further enhance and evolve our already diversified offer,” he says.

“I very much look forward to working closely with Warwick and the broader leadership team to pursue the group’s strategic objectives.”

Print and direct mail general manager Matt Aitken moves up to chief operating officer and will take responsibility for Blue Star’s manufacturing operations – effectively just adding Webstar to his existing portfolio – and report to Hay.

Webstar operations manager Darryl Meyer also earns a promotion to Webstar general manager, taking over from Hay at the helm of the web press division and reporting to Aitken.

Meyer has been a major player at Webstar since its inception in 2001.

Finally, business development manager Guy Watson will take leadership of the company’s retail display business, a merged division of STI and Blue Star’s existing point-of-sale operations.

Head of acquisitions and alliances and former Geon chief executive Graham Morgan will continue reporting directly to Selig as they keep going with Blue Star’s growth-by-acquisition strategy – building on recent takeovers of iGroup and STI Lilyfield.

The promotions are effective September 1 as Blue Star eyes even more acquisitions before year end.

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