Printronix Names Werner Heid CEO

(RTTNews) - Printronix Inc. announced that it has appointed Werner Heid as the company's next Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board effective immediately. Werner succeeds Randy Eisenbach, who is retiring as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board.

Prior to joining Printronix, Heid held position as Senior VP at Logitech (LOGI), where he strengthened Logitech's worldwide consumer channel franchise and transformed the sales & marketing organization into a consumer-centric organization. Prior to Logitech, Heid served as CEO of Iomega (IOM), where he led a wide-scale corporate turn-around by creating a new line of innovation products and capitalizing on Iomega's brand to return the company to sustainable profitability.

Heid also was President of Proxima (PRXM), where he doubled sales in eighteen months, ahead of Proxima's merger in 2001 with InFocus (INFS); and then served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing for the combined company, navigating them to the undisputed market leader position.

Previously, Heid held various executive positions at Hewlett Packard, including running HP's European LaserJet & Printing Supplies division, as well as introduced HP's "All-in-One" OfficeJet worldwide.