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Lynne Andrews
Mike Badour Mike
has over 20 years of successful business building experience
across multiple corporate landscapes — domestic and
international, and small businesses to large corporations.
Currently, Mike leads Canada Post’s Transaction Mail Product
Development and Product Management group, overseeing a portfolio
of mature and emerging products and services with total annual
revenues of over $3 billion.
Alexandre Batista Alexandre has 22 years of experience and diverse knowledge on electronic printing arena. Early 2007 leading the TransPromo implementation based on international relationship in all four continents, member of global users groups joined a relevant and unique know how on the best practices all over the world. He visited various countries in the past 20 months getting all information from end-users, vendors, postal services, case studies, todo’s and nottdo’s list of the digital color wave named TransPromo. In Brazil, responsible for launching the pioneers TransPromo customers of high volume of credit cards, banks, telco’s and insurance corporations.
Arthur Berrill Arthur spent 25 years managing the architecture, design and development of large spatial software systems for Wild Heerbrugg, Prime Computer, Computervision, Unisys and MapInfo then decided to get a life and started MapInfo’s Research Department. That department was morphed into the Advanced Development Department when it was established that useful research was even more effective when it was illustrated with prototypes. After MapInfo was acquired by Pitney Bowes, Arthur took over AC&T for Piteny Bowes. In almost 30 years, Arthur has never left a job (forcibly or voluntarily), has had a grand total of 5 bosses and has worked in 7 different countries. He led development of WildMap, SYSTEM 9, SpatialWare, many of MapInfo’s products and is now involved in all the future offerings of Pitney Bowes. Arthur is never happier than when confronted with an intractable problem (especially if is mathematical, computer related or spatial in nature) and never more despondent than when confronted with intractable people. He believes there can never be enough whiteboards. Arthur’s interests include the effective use of databases in spatial systems, user interface innovation, complex software systems architecture, power tools and the use of violence as a management tool.
John Blossom John
Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of marketing,
research, product management and development in advanced
information and media venues, including major financial
publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron
and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in
broadcast media and advertising. Blossom founded Shore
Communications Inc. in 1997, specializing in research and
advisory services and strategic marketing consulting for
publishers and consumers of content services. Mr. Blossom’s
engagements have included strategic marketing consulting for
major corporations and startups that are using the Internet to
position themselves in new and existing content markets. Guy Broadhurst has worked in printing systems technology for over 25 years. He joined Siemens Nixdorf Printing Systems in 1986 before Océ acquired it. Later, Broadhurst helped pioneer Océ’s Print On Demand initiative. His strong expertise includes commercial application development and unique print media, and he was involved in achieving companywide ISO 9000 certification. Today, Broadhurst directs strategic planning, marketing and sales support for all commercial printing systems, software, media development, and pre- and post-processing alliances. He stays heavily involved in market and customer research to identify market trends and issues. He is a regular conference speaker and industry columnist.
Hamilton Terni Costa
Brazilian, MBA, 35 years in the printing industry, he has
managed national and international companies like Quebecor World
in Mexico and Brazil and has also managed industry associations
in Latin America. Today Hamilton manages AN Consulting, where he
develops projects in the graphic communication market. He is
also responsible for coordinating PODi in the region and NPES
representation.
Luis Del Corral Electronics Engineer and MBA began his career as a technical supervisor in a Photo Lab Company, and as external teacher for Eafit College. Then he founded Compugraf, a start-up pre-press Company, which was the first one using digital technology for computer to film output and the first one offering variable digital printing in Colombia. This Company was merged later with CADENA S.A. a traditional Commercial Printing Company, transformed today into the largest transactional printing Company in Colombia. CADENA’s headquarters are located in Medellin, with digital printing facilities in the six largest cities in Colombia.
Purushottam Deo
Jeffrey DeVoyd is Vice President, Technology & Product Marketing
for GMC Software Technology. He joined GMC in 1997 with the
establishment of the US subsidiary operation. During his tenure
with GMC, he has held various management positions in technical
support, pre-sales, development, product training and product
management. Prior to GMC, he provided printer hardware support
and training for Nipson USA. He holds a BS in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Rochester. He has presented
at numerous industry events, including Xplor, On Demand/AIIM,
and Graphics of Americas. Scott Draeger joined the digital document industry in 1997, after earning a BA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Before becoming the Product Manger for Dialogue, he spent 10 years in the Document Composition industry as both a service provider and a software vendor. He obtained his EDP certification from Xplor in 2003 and his MBA in 2007 from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Scott’s TransPromo experience includes; upgrading Fortune 500
statement applications, creating full color digital print
campaigns, bringing TransPromo to credit card carriers and
improving total compensation applications. Jim combines 20 years of technical development, sales, marketing, and management experience. He brings that depth of understanding to clients and helps them tackle some of their most difficult strategic challenges. Prior to Emerge Partners, Jim held positions as Vice President of CRM and Interactive Services for a top New York Advertising Agency, Director of Sales for an Interactive Services firm, General Manager of a division of Ziff-Davis, and National Sales Manager for Ziff-Davis Education’s publishing group. Jim has been part of the Emerge team for over four years and has leveraged his experiences with clients such as Absolut Vodka and Jim Beam.
Ron Gilboa
Bernie Gracy Bernie Gracy is the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies. He most recently served as the Vice President of Global Strategy, Product Management and Marketing for Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. In his 10th year at Pitney Bowes, Bernie has served in other general management and leadership positions in M&A, Professional Services, Business Development, and Software/Systems engineering. Bernie conceived DMT's Customer Communications Management framework and has played an integral role in building out the software strategy as well as the successful acquisition and integration of Group 1 Software in 2004, Emtex in 2006, and MapInfo in 2007. Bernie has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut, an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and will complete his MS in e-Commerce from the University of Maryland in 2008.
Prathamesh Hajirnis
Joel Jira
Cheryl Kananowicz
Kevin Klein Kevin
Klein is presently Director of Production Intelligence
Consulting for the Emtex Division of Pitney Bowes. He has been
with Pitney Bowes since 2000 and served in product management
and marketing roles before his current assignment. Prior to
joining Pitney Bowes Kevin spent 22 years with Westing House
Electric, General Electric and Emerson Electric. Kevin graduated
from the University of Buffalo with a B.S. degree in Industrial
Technology. He is a frequent speaker within the mailing industry
and is currently engaged in consulting activities relating to
the facilitation of TransPromo within the production
environment. Aart
began his career with Cathedral Corporation in 1994 as the
Operations Manager for the Lincoln, RI facility. He became
Lincoln's General Manager in 1997, was named Vice President of
Technology in 1999 and Executive Vice President of Operations in
2007. Prior to Cathedral, he held positions in both operations
and sales for AMS, Data Base Marketing and Laser Image
Technology. Aart is well versed in the technologies of Pitney
Bowes, Bell and Howell, IBM and Xerox. He is a member of the
Providence USPS Customer Council. Michael Logan is currently Vice President, Business Development for the Business Communication Services (“BCS”) division of RR Donnelley. Mr. Logan’s national responsibilities include managing the sales strategy and direction of the BCS operating division as well as serving as an executive sponsor for the sales efforts associated with strategic accounts, including price and contract negotiations. Michael’s organization includes a team of individuals that provide product development, color imaging strategies, and support to the business capture efforts associated with strategic accounts. Michael has over twenty (20) years of sales and marketing experience, including sixteen (17) years of sales and marketing experience in the client communications industry. Michael has a B.S. in Business Management and Economics from DeSales University. Michael is also a graduate of the Project Management Institute. The
Business Communication Services unit of R.R. Donnelley produces
custom transaction print solutions in both paper based and
digital formats. Services include project management, software
development, and the printing, imaging and mailing services to
produce financial, insurance and telecommunication client
reports and statements. Mike
is an accomplished marketing and business development
professional with extensive experience in database marketing. At
Imagitas, Mike is focused on identifying and launching ‘life
event’ advertising platforms. These new platforms expand upon
their thirteen year relationship with the United States Postal
Service and the Movers Source solution which has an annual print
distribution of 100 million. Location Intelligent TransPromo is
one of these new platforms and represents a significant
opportunity for offsetting print costs through internal and
external advertising. P.C.
(Pat) McGrew, EDP is the Data Center & Transaction Segment
Evangelist in the Graphic Communications Group at Eastman Kodak
working worldwide to support the needs of customers involved in
high-speed, data-driven customer communication. As the
evangelist for TransPromo, integrated customer communication and
education, and other effective customer communication techniques
she also works with the data-printing industry and with Kodak
product groups and regions supporting solutions to enhance
customer success. She is the co-author of 7 books covering
information and multi-channel document delivery, and the author
of research studies and articles covering business continuity,
disaster recovery, print-and-mail innovations, compliance
issues, document strategy auditing, and the worldwide statement
printing markets. Don
McKenzie has more than 20 years of management experience in
strategic planning, corporate re-engineering, operations,
leadership development and mergers and acquisitions. He is
widely known as an accomplished leader and visionary in the
field of direct marketing, having served in top management roles
for a number of direct marketing services companies and the
industry’s leading investment bank. Prior to joining Direct Group, Mr. McKenzie was President & CEO of Petsky Prunier LLC, the direct marketing industry’s leading investment banking firm. Before that, he held top management posts at several direct marketing companies, including President of Transcontinental Direct U.S.A. (formerly CC3), where he grew the company’s revenue from $60 million to $260 million while driving outstanding profitability. Mr. McKenzie managed the sale of CC3 to Providence Equity Partners under highly favorable transaction terms, then again spearheaded the sale of that business to Canadian printing giant Transcontinental Inc. in 2003. Mr. McKenzie has also held positions at Shopwise.com, the online division of ADVO Inc., and at SuperCoups, among others.
Throughout his career, Mr. McKenzie has actively participated in
industry trade associations, authoring dozens of articles and
speaking at numerous trade and analyst conferences. In October
2006, he was appointed to the Direct Marketing Association’s
Board of Directors for a three-year term. He is a former member
of the DMA Financial Services Council, as well as PostCom’s
Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also was a
founding member of the Saturation Mailers Coalition. Dr.
René Müeller is president and CEO of GMC Software Technology,
which he founded in 1994. Dr. Mueller holds a PhD in Physics
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and an
MBA from IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland. His
professional experience includes a strong background in
research, including fuel cells research with ABB Brown-Boveri,
Baden, Switzerland, and Low Temperature Physics with IBM. His
management background includes several years as a management
consultant with Bain & Co. in London and Munich, and later as a
freelance turnaround specialist. Since 1994, he has led the
worldwide team at GMC Software Technology. RISO
manufactures and sells the HC5500, the fastest cut-sheet full
color inkjet printer on the market, as well as high-speed spot
digital duplicators. Prior to his present role as RISO’s Vice
President of Marketing, David Murphy has held several sales and
marketing positions with the company for the last 16 years.
Currently, David is responsible for the entire scope of product
marketing for North America. He holds an MBA and a BS degree in
marketing and has conducted field research on user applications
for ink-based printing systems in Europe, Asia, and the
Americas. Kelli Nesseth is a Senior Marketing Manager at GE Money responsible for Statement and Promotion Architecture. Kelli attended Southern Methodist University and graduated with a B.A. degree in finance 1988. Her career began at GE Consumer Finance on the Management Development Program and she completed assignments in Dallas, Texas, Anaheim, California and Stamford, Connecticut. Her first roles after completing the program were Manager of Finance and Client Services Manager. In 1994, Kelli built the Exxon Card Services customer service organization, a 24 hour-a-day 7 day-a-week call center receiving over three million calls annually. Her next assignment was Portfolio Underwriting Manager for $430 million, multi-client, credit card portfolio. She was responsible for pricing, profitability analysis and monitoring new and existing transactions. Kelli was selected as one of the first black belts in Consumer Finance and became certified in 2000. After certification, Kelli joined the Business Credit Services team and served as Strategic Initiatives Manager and Manager of Client Integrations. She completed the M.B.A. program at the Gouizeta Business School of Emory University in 2001. Kelli has been leading the Statement Architecture team since 2006, building statements for new clients and developing billing statements as a marketing channel.
Christopher Nicholson
Jennifer Pennington
Andy Plata & Julie
Plata
Jon Reske I hold an MBA from Wake Forrest and have been a marketing professional for 25 years. Have worked in brand management for several fortune 500 package goods companies and owned my own strategic planning consulting firm before settle into the credit union industry 11 years ago. I have been the Vice President of Marketing for UMass Five College Credit Union since 1996. I am responsible for all marketing and business development for the credit union as well as our Financial Investment Services Company. I am also involved with a credit union international outreach program assisting credit unions and their trade association in the country of Azerbaijan. In this capacity I have coordinated work study programs here in the US and will be going to Azerbaijan in May to work with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to strengthen the credit union movement there.
Walter B. Riddock
Josh Roach Mr.
Roach joined the company in January, 2007 and has run large
software teams around the world as a VP of Engineering and R&D
at companies including Intuit, Accelrys, HNC Software, and
A-Life Medical. Most recently, he was the founder and CTO of
ConVisia, a real-time, hosted collaboration solution for
architects and engineers. Mr. Roach is an experienced Chief
Architect and software technology executive with an extensive
history of large-scale software development - from large high
tech companies to start-ups. He specializes in strong processes
focused on execution, modern object-oriented software
development methodologies, strong product management skills and
mentoring and leadership development amongst all levels of
software teams. Josh gained his Computer Science Degree at SDSU,
in addition to completing programs at Harvard, IBM, UCSD and
Microsoft Konrad Rochalski graduated from Warsaw School of Economics, EMBA London Business School, HEC School of Management, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Business School of Warsaw University of Technology. Since 1998 he has been managing product lines as well as sales and marketing structures in companies representing electro technical, office and IT sectors. In 2005 he was appointed to the position of President & CEO at Inforsys S.A.-leading outsourcing provider in the field of document processing and mass correspondence production and management. In his professional activities Rochalski follows an interest in company value creation by balanced development in operations, sales and marketing areas, supported by image policy.
Nick Romano
Mike Salfity Mike Salfity joined Xerox in 1984 and has held a number of design and system engineering, program management, and technical staff positions. Mike has been involved with the Freeflow platform since 2001. His most recent assignment was VP, Platform Development for Workflow. Currently, Mike is Vice President of the Workflow Business Unit for Xerox Corporation’s Production Systems Group (PSG). He was appointed to this position in July of 2005. PSG has worldwide responsibility for production monochrome and color systems for the publishing and transaction printing environments, including the DocuTech, DocuPrint and DocuColor product lines. Mike earned a BSEE in System Design from Cal State at Long Beach and an MBA from the University of Southern California, as well as a Computer Engineering program at UCLA. Also, Mike’s family has been in the printing industry for more than 50 years, he grew up changing ink and paper, burning plates, type setting, etc. , Mike is still active in the printing community in Los Angeles.
Carl Salz Carl Salz, MBA and Ph.D. candidate, is a Project Manager at Janus Capital Group in Denver, Colorado. His role over the last four years is leading and facilitating the collaboration of stakeholders internal and external to the organization in order to deliver client communications. He is recently recipient of the Champion of Values Award for his leadership and influence of the organization. Prior to Janus, his previous role as a project manager focused on client communication in the financial industry. Additionally, he is currently pursing a Doctor of Organizational Leadership at University of Phoenix.
Adrienne Valentine Adrienne Valentine began her career with Hartford Life in 1994. She has held various but most recently is responsible for Individual Annuity Communication Delivery. This team is responsible for coordinating all client communications including financial confirms, prospectuses and contracts. This responsibility includes vendor management of all of the print vendors in this space. Additionally, Adrienne manages a Portfolio of Strategic projects. She and her team continue to implement best practices in the Individual Annuity space and working with their partners across line of business to gain efficiencies where similar processes exist. Adrienne holds a B.S. in Marketing, an M.S in Management and an MBA. She also enjoys mentoring teens and annually hosts various high school students on Hartford Life’s campus to expose them to technology in the workplace.
Vicky Young Vicky
has more than 10 years experience in customer centric
communications and data driven solutions enablement. Vicky leads
the sales strategy for Salmat BusinessForce (formerly HPA) in
TransPromo creating effective multichannel solutions at the
forefront of the Australian market. Vicky specializes in direct
marketing based on consumer insights, customer flow and trigger
and event automation. Vicky has a very comprehensive
understanding of the numerous skill sets and technologies that
come together to create effective TransPromo. In the Asia
Pacific region she has lead the implementation of 50+ TransPromo
applications across the teleco, banking, finance, retail,
loyalty and utilities sectors covering both B2B and B2C
environments. She is a contributor to numerous print
periodicals, and a regular conference speaker within the direct
marketing industry.
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