Richard F. Trapilo is General Manager and Executive Vice President of C.P. Bourg, a leading international developer and supplier of document feeding, binding and finishing equipment, with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Germany and the U.S., a position he has held since 1988. In this role, Mr. Trapilo is responsible for all C.P. Bourg operations worldwide, including sales and marketing in the Americas, Europe, and the Far East; OEM management worldwide; and all factory operations.

From 1987 to 1992 Mr. Trapilo was President of C.P. Bourg Japan Company Limited as a non-resident, during which time he established corporate strategies and goals for the Far East and developed OEM business relationships and distribution channels. From 1982 to 1987, he served C.P. Bourg as Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Mr. Trapilo began his career at the G.S.O. Computer Division of Honeywell, Inc. before joining A.B. Dick Company.

Among his many achievements, Mr. Trapilo was instrumental in developing the Bourg SBM-1 in 1989 – the world’s first signature booklet maker connected to a digital press – and in the many significant finishing product developments that followed, including the Bourg Book Factory in 1996, the world’s first perfect binder designed for digital production.

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with an MBA from Lake Forest College, Mr. Trapilo has been a guest speaker on the topic of print finishing and most recently co-authored a paper for the PIA 2010 Forecast on the evolution of binding and finishing methods meeting the challenges of digital technology.