The Government Printing Office’s public printer, Robert Tapella, really is a printer. He began learning bookbinding at age 12. “It was at age 14 that I first saw a printing press,” he said, and in the 1980s he started his own design business.
He entered government in 1986 as district representative for then-Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and in 1996 became a House staffer, supervising the Office of Member Services of the House Oversight Committee.
After two years in the private sector, he returned to government in 2002 as deputy chief of staff at GPO, becoming chief of staff in 2004 and public printer in October 2007.
Source: GCN
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