Marcus Kirby
Marcus joined The Lowe Group as Creative IT Manager in 1989, left to become
IT Director of The Admagic Group (an advertising pre-press house) in 1992,
before being asked back to Lowe Howard-Spink as IT Director in 1995.
He joined the Saatchi & Saatchi group to become Systems Director of the UK
print, press and broadcast production division (TfG) in 1998. After a brief
stint with the AMV BBDO group Marcus became Strategic Director of Vertis PRS in late 2004. Since 2006 Marcus has worked as an independent consultant - providing advice to corporate advertisers, creative agencies, printers, pre-press companies and solutions vendors.
Marcus was chairman of the APPA (Advertising Pre-Press Association) for 6 years until 2006, and is also on the executive committee of Digital Ad Lab UK and sits on the technical advisory panel to the PPA (UK Magazine Publishers) Technical
Production committee.