Management Team
Frank Shear has been at the helm of Seaboard Bindery since 2000 and has worn many hats since joining in 1983. From 1976 Frank has been directly and indirectly been part of the graphic arts industry having started out working with a prominent street map publisher and then joining Seaboard in sales.
Frank's philosophy is that our job is to make you look good to your customer. We also want to make it easy for you to do business with us. Relationships are everything and the staff at Seaboard is geared to building and keeping your trust and confidence in us.
Outside of work Frank enjoys following the Boston sports teams, doing some running, cooking oriental foods, and playing with his golden retriever Daisy.
Jim Shear has had a variety of printing related jobs since his days at RIT in the early 1980's. From breaking into the industry as an account manager at Logic Associates to management experience at a California printer to an estimator at Monroe Litho, and now at Seaboard since 1998, Jim has seen it all.
Jim is our go-to person when it comes to engineering bindery projects and is invaluable as our IT man. He is also our principal estimator.
Pose a computer problem to Jim and he'll solve it!
For Marty Durant, the job title production manager doesn't begin to describe all that he does. First and foremost, Marty is responsible for guiding your project through its successful and timely completion. However, Marty is also our master motivator and equipment engineer. There is no machine that Marty cannot figure out and problem solve.
Marty's past life includes over 20 years as production manager at Pearl Bookbinding, and began his career as a pressman at Riverside Press in Cambridge. We are the lucky beneficiaries of Marty's experience and expertise.
Phil Rutzick started working in the printing field to pay for his tuition at San Francisco Law School. After two years he decided he liked printing more than school and to date has accumulated over 25 years in the industry. He started in the bindery, ran a small press, then moved to the office, doing customer service, estimating, planning and production. Although he claims to have no life except for work, he manages to get in some time riding his newly glitter painted Harley and playing high level tennis.