Adrian Cotterill is co-founder and editor in chief of DailyDOOH, perhaps the most well respected voice of the digital out of home and digital signage industry.
Over the past 25 years Adrian has worked for IBM, Intel, Bertelsmann and a number of investors and business angels in positions such as Chief Technology Officer, Head of Internet Technology, Business Development Director, Head of Strategy and Interactive Marketing Manager.
His work with his business partners over the last seven years has involved industry analysis, market research, commercial and technical due diligence, software and hardware review, product design, branding and market entry strategy.
Adrian is a much in demand speaker at events around the world and a familiar face on the judging / award circuit. He is also a brand ambassador for the Digital Content Circle, a member of MENSA (the high IQ society) and a member of the National Union of Journalists. |
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Since joining in 1982 Andrew has been involved in all of Icon’s branding activities ranging from major international sporting events to corporate and commercial projects, helping to develop the company’s portfolio both in the UK and in Europe, the USA, South Africa and the Middle East.
Now responsible for spearheading the Icon group’s sales and marketing efforts, Andrew nevertheless retains an active role in the company’s leading projects – especially on the creative front - bringing 30 years of experience to the development and management of each project. |
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Aurelio Mendiguchía García is currently the Technical Director at Graphic Technology Centre Tajamar and is also a visiting Professor at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid.
He has been a member of the Committee of AENOR and TAGA (Technical Association of the Graphic Arts) Rochester USA, and is a founding partner of Circle Latin American Graphic Arts Training as well as a member of the organising committee Graphispag 2010.
He has a Degree in Physics from the Autonoma University of Madrid and has extensive experience as a graphical arts technical consultant and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences in the graphic arts arena. Aurelio frequently contributes to industry publications and offers specialised courses teaching Quality Management, Processes in Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts raw materials, etc.
Aurelio is also won many awards from the Association of Graphic Arts and Paper Handling Madrid and the Award for best book published by the Ministry of Culture and is the developer of software for quality control and colour printing: DENSICOM and an advisor to the Ministry of Education for the design and implementation of new Vocational Training. |
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Chris has been with FESPA since April 2010 and provides commercial expertise to the organisation while supporting its National Associations and Associate Members. He brings with him international, linguistic and cultural experience gained with blue-chip companies in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. |
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Chris is one of the most experienced members of the FESPA team, his interpersonal skills and experience is key to his role as Head of Membership Services. Chris is married with one son.
Prior to joining the screen and digital printing industry, Chris worked for 18 years as a human resources manager for a public services union in the UK.
He joined the UK Digital & Screen Printing Association in 1997 and among his achievements there were the introduction of benefits and services to UK members and the organisation of two very successful UK Pavilions at the FESPA Exhibitions in 2002 and 2005. In August 2005, Chris was appointed to the position of FESPA New Projects and Member Services Manager and in 2008 was promoted to the post of Head of Membership Services. As chairman of the Projects Committee he has had an involvement in consideration of almost 200 FESPA supported projects, including numerous seminars in many FESPA member countries. Chris also had a key involvement in the production of the FESPA Sensations book of screen printing effects.
Chris has seen the FESPA membership grow following its global expansion and alongside other members of the small corporate team, works closely with all FESPA Associations in providing support, advice and help when needed. Chris feels his role puts him at the heart of the "FESPA family" having made many dear friends from all around the world.
Chris has been involved in many FESPA Environmental initiatives (including the Planet Friendly Guide) and often speaks about environmental and sustainability issues at FESPA Association events and seminars. He considers that printers around the world need to become greener, since he believes that regulation and legislation will get tougher and only those who can prove their green credentials will survive.
Outside of FESPA, Chris enjoys playing bridge, walking in the country, travelling and is a keen follower of most sports. Chris also enjoys sampling wines and beers from around the world and one day, when time permits, he has threatened to write a short book expressing his preferences. |
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Christian Duyckaerts (DOB: 1970) is FESPA’s board representative in Belgium, and President of the screen and digital work group of Belgian trade association Febelgra. He is also a member of the Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique.
Since the year 2000, Christian has been a managing partner and technical director of Antwerp-based Print&Display, a specialist in the creation of outdoor publicity materials, cardboard displays, permanent displays, and POP collateral for corporate and agency customers throughout Europe.
Employing 108 people, with sales offices in Benelux, Germany and France, Print&Display takes care of the entire process from research, design and prototyping through to printing, finishing, fulfilment and warehousing, and uses a combination of screen, offset and digital printing techniques.
He took up that role following 14 years with Hamiscreen Affiche Europeennne, culminating in the position of production director, with additional responsibility for environmental accreditation.
Christian is also one of the owners/partners of GSI Holding in Schelle/ Antwerp and MAT Media Art Technology (Charleroi), both leading companies in large format digital printing in Belgium.
Christian studied graphic technologies at the technical school TSM Mechelen and at HIGRO, the higher institute for graphic industries in Ghent.
Christian’s personal interest in comic art is reflected in Christian’s presidency of VZW T’beeldverhaal, an organisation promoting the ‘ninth art’. |
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Clare Taylor MSc CEnv MIEMA FRSA
Clare Taylor is an independent environmental consultant with many years in print.
She started Clare Taylor Consulting fourteen years ago and prior to that worked for agencies and major corporates managing art buying, print buying and environmental performance across the supply chain. Since setting up her consultancy she has worked with a wide variety of printers and paper companies, and also large corporates and smaller companies in areas related to print, paper and publishing. Clare is also a regular contributor of articles for magazines and websites, and is editor and the main writer for greenprinter.co.uk.
With an established track record as consultant to many of the best-known names in print, she is well known in the industry and has spoken at many conferences on print, paper and related environmental issues, both in the UK and mainland Europe.
A Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, a Registered Environmental Auditor, Fellow of the RSA, and Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and of the Energy Institute, her environmental disciplines are broad ranging but focused on working within industry, helping customers reduce costs and improve competitiveness. |
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After completing a Masters in Law at the University Leuven, Dan went on to achieve an EMP MBA at the Universidad Comercial de Deusto Bilbao, ESC Nantes, Strathclyde Graduate Business School, Glasgow. Dan began his professional career in print in 1994 with an entrepreneurial start up with X-Treme NV Belgium. In 1997 he became partner of X-Cape SA Teambuilding Outdoor Adventure in Florenville and for the last 11 years as Owner of the highly regarded X-Treme Inflatables BV Netherlands with now at group level 15000 3D references (mainly inflatables). In his spare time Dan enjoys participating in multiple sports and spending time with his wife Suyin and 2 lovely daughters of 3 and 4 years old
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Danielle is responsible for the Product Portfolio and Marketing at ONYX Graphics. She has over 20 years of progressive experience in various roles focused on printing workflow and imaging technologies at R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Contex Prepress Systems, and Creo. She was a Solution Sales Manager at Eastman Kodak prior to joining ONYX in 2009. Danielle received her bachelor’s degree from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Utah. Danielle currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States with her husband David, where they enjoy the outdoors, including road cycling and snowboarding. In addition to sports, Danielle enjoys international business and seeing the world. |
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David is a veteran of +30 years in the high tech bus; focused on the key factors that build value: principally customers. 1st half career in the software business. 2nd half in Internetworking h/w and s/w. All positions since leaving Digi in 1998 have involved some level of personal and investment and VC funding.
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Dennis Geelen is 29 years old and has a Bachelor’s degree in environmental management. He is recognized by the Belgian government as an environmental coordinator, meaning that he can legally act as an environmental representative to defend the interests of a company.
Working for more then 5 years for an environmental consultancy agency, Dennis has build experience in dealing with a wide range of environmental topics for several industries like the food, printing, paper manufacturing and chemical industry.
Since 2011 Dennis is active as environmental advisor at Febelgra, the graphic trade organization of Belgium. His task is to orientate the Belgian graphic industry in an innovative and sustainable way in order to make them ready for the challenges of the next decade.
He is skilled in environmental permits and legislation, urban planning, audits and environmental management systems. |
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Ed Levy is president of Digitize4u, Inc., a custom embroidery and digitizing operation and consulting firm. Levy also hosts www.embforum.com, which is a professional group for Tajima DG/ML by Pulse users.
With more than 20 years experience, Levy has owned screen-printing, embroidery and digitizing businesses. In 2001, Levy began consulting and founded EmbForum, a professional Tajima DG/ML by Pulse software users group. He is a sought-after consultant and trainer with clients in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Barbados, and Jamaica. As a prominent industry educator he presents a wide range of seminars for industry events, is a pioneer in webinar education. He also serves on the advisory board of Stitches. |
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Gaby Castellanos was born in Caracas in 1970. She began her advertising career at sixteen under the guidance of Bobby Coimbra, and since then has gone from strength to strength. In fact, Fast Company considers her to be one of the fifty most influential people in the world. A Spanish citizen since 1996, foul-mouthed and direct, she leaves no one indifferent. For that reason she is constantly featured in the international media and press such as El País, El Mundo, El Universal, Telecinco, Clarín, and Adlatina Interactive. Her talks at conferences and seminars ensure that her followers on Twitter just keep on growing. Unique of her kind, she has been executive creative director at some of the most significant national and international agencies. Elected the most important personality in Spain in the advertising sector in 2010, she founded Netthink Carat (Aegis Group). But Gaby can't stand still, so three years ago she made her most ambitious dream come true: SrBurns, an "experts in the impossible" agency specializing in social media.
A fan of Coca-Cola, OT and YoutubeStars, you have to love her or hate her. She refrains from using her talks to promote her book which, by the way, comes out in January 2012.
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HB is the Managing Director of Omnimark, NL. HB began his career after a Graphics Arts education, working as a screenprinter apprentice in France. He later was emplyed as a sales representative for 3M Netherlands and joint Omnimark the family business 25 years ago. As an innovator in our own field we constantly need to review our own business strategy to optimize customer satisfaction. HB believes in 'The Business Model Generation in 2010' and experienced it as an easy accessible method based on scientific research. |
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Award-winning author and International Speaker Jimmy Lamb, has over 20 years of product decoration business experience. Mr. Lamb has extensive knowledge in many facets of digital decorating and embellishing including business startup, applications, techniques, marketing, sales, mobile, digitizing, production and management. He has owned and operated a successful production facility, started a retail franchise operation and has provided production solutions to a variety of Fortune 500 corporations involved in customization, decoration and embellishment. In 2011 he was ranked as number 26 in the list of the 75 most influential people in the decoration industry by Stitches Magazine. His articles appear regularly in various industry magazines and he is a frequent speaker at Industry Events and Trade Shows domestically and internationally. Mr. Lamb currently serves as the Manager of Education & Communications for Sawgrass Technologies. |
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Jon Stack is Director of Print and Media Certification Ltd (PMC), a UK based certification body, accredited by UKAS, and a specialist in certification for the print sector. Jon is responsible for running existing certification schemes, including ISO 14001, and developing new ones, and has pioneered the development of the world’s first accredited certification for ISO 12647-2 through the British Printing Industry Federation’s scheme, as well as developing a verification scheme for ISO 16759, the standard for carbon footprinting of printed products which is itself currently in development by ISO. Prior to working in certification, Jon’s background is in the energy industry having worked in a number of roles in electricity and gas supply, as well as consulting in energy supply markets and international projects aimed at developing competitive energy markets. Jon is an Economics graduate and has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA). |
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Keith Ferrel is one of the founders of Cactus Imaging. Starting in New Zealand in 1992 Cactus Imaging has now become known throughout the world as one of the best Grand Format Production companies in the Asia Pacific region.
After one year in Auckland New Zealand, Keith moved to Sydney Australia to set up the sales arm of Cactus Imaging Australia. It proved so successful that in 1996 Cactus Imaging set up a full scale production plant in Sydney which is now the leading grand format printer in Australasia.
In 2000 Keith was appointed as the Group Sales Director and was one of the drivers in setting up Cactus Imaging India based in Chennai. He traveled extensively throughout Asia and the Middle East and gained many major clients for the company.
The Indian production plant was a major success producing in excess of 140,000 sq mtrs of work per month. Keith was appointed General Manager of The Cactus Imaging Group in 2005. In 2008 the company was sold to a Private Equity Company and is now part of the Opus Print Group.
Keith is now recognized in Australia as an industry legend and has also been named as one of the most influential people in the industry. |
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Kendall Madsen, Director of Engineering, ONYX Graphics, Inc.
Kendall is responsible for software development and R&D. Since joining ONYX Graphics in 2000, Kendall has been instrumental in aligning ONYX product with market needs, with an emphasis on ONYX Color Technologies and how they are used in the marketplace. Kendall joined ONYX Graphics with an extensive range of experience, holding management and engineering positions at TRW Strategic Systems Division and IOMEGA Corporation in addition to heading a private consultancy. Kendall received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Utah State University. |
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Laurel Brunner started her career in 1978 as an accountant for a printing company. Since then she has worked exclusively in the prepress and publishing industries, with a particular specialisation in prepress production and digital technologies. She is managing director Digital Dots (www.digitaldots.org) an international consulting group, and publisher of Spindrift an independent, subscriber supported newsletter for the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries.
Laurel Brunner is active in standards development through her work with ISO committees and is the convenor of ISO’s Working Group developing ISO 16759, the standard for calculating the carbon footprint and environmental impact of print media products. She provides private consulting and editorial services to a wide cross section of publishers and industry associations. Her work regularly appears in newspapers and magazines around the world, and Laurel is has spoken speaker at industry conferences in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
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General Manager of POPAI Benelux since 2007, Leo has a wealth of experience in the national and international retail sector (33 years). Spending 22 of those years in retail and 11 in agencies, Leo has accrued an incomparable depth of knowledge of retail and print’s position in the retail environment.
Throughout his career, Leo has worked in speciality stores, family companies, chains and department stores in an number of departments including Marketing, Sales, Trade, Concept Developement and Design departments.
His time working for agencies further honed his skills in the areas of Brand Identity, concepting, communication and design.
Through these experiences he has gained a strong understanding of shopper insights and instore excellence, and with this knowledge, he currently works as a retail coach alongside his POPAI work |
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Luis Francisco Rivera Lozano is a Graphic Arts Technical Specialist. Currently Professor at the Graphic Arts & Graphic Tajamar Technological Institute, focusing on color management, PDF and process standardization. Luis previously teached graphic processing modules in Photoshop, InDesign and color management as well as conducting workshops for the implementation of ISO 12647-2, ISO 12647-3 and ISO 12647-7, color management in production and the optimization of PDF documents.
Luis is also a co-founder of DIMAX, a company dedicated to training and supports graphic programs and is a training advisor to several companies and consultancy and provides training for production companies in the programs Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Quark, FreeHand, Acrobat and color management
In his spare time Luis writes a blog on standardization of color and process-itgt.com www.lfrivera and enjoys contributing to different groups on Linkedin |
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Marcelle Peuckert joined the FSC International Center in January 2007 as Development Manager. Currently Marcelle is the Director of Business Development at FSC, a unit that is responsible for delivering 4 main programs: Key Account Management, Trademark Support, Market Intelligence and Smallholder Support. These 4 programs support FSC’s work in increasing the visibility, uptake and increase of FSC products and certification within various audiences.
Marcelle is from Cape Town, South Africa and worked as a professional in Social Welfare and Development Organisations in South Africa prior to relocating to Germany at the beginning of 2007. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa and a post-graduate certificate in Cross-Sector Partnerships from the University of Cambridge. |
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Mark joined Xaar in April 2005. Mark returned to the printing industry having enjoyed the previous 5 years in the Cisco internetworking environment in programme and operational management roles. Prior to that he gained over 10 years experience in the Pre-press, Printing and Publishing industry in a variety of roles including product management, channel management and operations within Crosfield, FujiFilm (FFEI) and Purup-Eskofot. |
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Mark Gervais is Director of Screen Print for Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co Ltd, China. Mark has worked passionately for 34+ years in the Screen Printing Industry. His Screen Printing career began printing PCB’s (printed circuit boards) for Apple Computer in 1977 and continued for over 10 years. In 1987, he had made the move into Textile Screen Printing which is where he still is today. In those 24 years, Mark worked for 17 years with various large scale printing operations on the West Coast and also 3 of the major Plastisol Ink manufactures, with 4 of those years as an Asian Regional Sales Manager. Mark has been working and living in China for the past 7 years with almost 3 of those years at Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co, Ltd.
His passions lie in working with Graphic Print Development and determining how designs are separated, engineered and printed and also a Designer of Printing Operations with facility lay-out to establish process controls and procedures and efficient automatic machine operations and quality. |
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MD, Newvizion Consulting Ltd, Director, Two Sides, European Sustainability Manager and UK Country Manager, Print Power.
During his long career in the paper industry, Martyn Eustace has gained a wealth of experience having held a variety of senior management positions.
After a period in manufacturing with Domtar, Martyn moved to distribution as CEO of Howard Smith Paper, now part of the PaperlinX Group. In 2004 he joined Map Merchant Group as CEO of Premier Paper; leading a highly successful business recovery and turnaround.
Martyn is a member of PwCs’ turnaround panel and is Managing Director of Newvizion, an independent business consultancy. He is the Director of Two Sides, a sustainability initiative which he helped to create in 2008, and he is currently the Sustainability Manager and UK Country Manager for Print Power, a European initiative to promote the sustainability and effectiveness of the Graphic Communications Value Chain.
Martyn is currently President of the UK Paper Industry Charitable Trust and has been President of the UK’s National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM). He has served on the Board of EUGROPA, the European Paper Merchants Association and is presently a Council member of PRIMA, the Paper and Related Industries Marketing Association. He delivered the keynote speech on ‘The Future for Print Media in a World of Sustainability’ at the IGAS Graphic Arts event in Tokyo in September 2011 |
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Matthew Parker has been buying print for twenty years and has worked in directory, B2B magazine, consumer news stand magazine and agency environments. Amongst other roles, he headed up print purchasing at Future Publishing when it was the UK’s 5th largest consumer news stand publisher. He has also managed purchasing projects in a number of other areas, including outsourced services, web and e-mail services, postal services and transport.
Matthew now runs Print & Procurement Ltd., which helps generate effective, profitable relationships between the print sector and companies that need print. through implementing new approaches and processes and practical assistance. Typical projects include:
• Sales messaging
• Assistance with tenders and service level agreements
• Auditing factories from the buyer’s view
• Purchasing audits
The company also runs training courses, including sales messaging, managing customer relationships, best practice for customer facing staff, negotiation and practical purchasing.
Matthew’s interests include mountain walking, music and cooking. |
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Michel Caza (DOB: 1935) is a multiple award-winning leading light in the global screenprinting industry, and one of the ‘founding fathers’ of FESPA in 1962 and has been a Board Member since 1990. He also established the French Screenprinting Association (GPSF) in 1959, was FESPA’s delegate on the board of the American SGIA for many years, and is Past-Chairman of the Academy of Screenprinting and Digital Printing Technology (ASPT).
Michel first became a screenprinter in 1954, going on to found a series of screenprinting businesses. These culminated in the launch in 1983 of Atelier D’Art Michel Caza, devoted to fine art, posters and postcards, alongside Graficaza SA, specialised in high quality general screenprinting for advertising, POP, industrial and decorative applications. The two businesses were integrated under the Graficaza brand in 1996 and grew in size and turnover until the business was sold by Michel and his wife Therese in 2004.
As a pioneer of fine art screenprinting, Michel has collaborated with many world-famous 20th Century artists, including Chagall, Dali, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Miro and Warhol, as well as numerous illustrators, studios and comic designers.
Michel’s workshops have been used as an ‘open door’ training school for foreign printers wanting to develop their technical knowledge, and he has personally initiated and developed significant innovations in screening, inks, substrates and digital prepress for screenprinting, as well as undertaking substantial research into the use of screen and digital printing in industrial applications.
Michel now works as an expert consultant for a global client base of printers and equipment manufacturers. He has edited and contributed to dozens of trade publications worldwide, and has authored and contributed to numerous technical books and CDs, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. He has presented technical seminars in more than 50 cities around the world.
Apart from screenprinting, Michel’s passions in life are computers, the Internet, architecture, economics, art and literature, especially science fiction… and Harry Potter! |
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For the last twenty-two years, Mike has worked in a variety of capacities at [TC]² and has provided guidance to hundreds of sewn products companies. With thirty-four years of experience in apparel manufacturing, research and development, operations and corporate management, he leads the company’s initiatives to develop next-generation supply chain technologies, and work with companies to implement currently available technologies and business processes. He and the [TC]² staff deliver an extensive array of programs and provide consulting services to individual companies. These services span such topics as 3D product development, sizing for fit, production scheduling, industrial engineering, ergonomics, full package production, simulation, lean manufacturing systems, sustainable technologies, and the digital supply chain. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy from North Carolina State University, an MBA from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from North Carolina State University. In 2009 he was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at N.C. State University. Dr. Fralix is also active in several industry organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the AAFA, Vice Chairman of SPESA, a member of the Executive Committee of IAF and serves on the Board of Trustees for C-CAA. He also is the President of the AAFA Education Foundation, President of the Georgia Soft Goods Education Foundation, and Past Chair of the AAFA Human Resources Leadership Council.
Dr. Fralix’s key message is that tomorrow’s soft goods industry leaders are going to thrive through the use of digital technologies and processes that are integrated across continents. From product development to delivery and logistics, these companies will implement systems that: enable the shortest cycle time from concept to market, provide the most rapid and efficient response to consumer demand, and offer the best value for the investment.r. |
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Neil is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Sheffield and is recognised as one of the top 25 most influential people in the additive manufacturing (aka 3D Printing) industry.
Neil is lead inventor of high speed sintering that utilises inkjet technology to significantly increase the commercial potential for sintering based Additive Manufacturing. He is also named on other patents in the fields of Additive Manufacturing and Sport Equipment. Neil is the lead editor of the world's first book on additive manufacturing and he has won various global awards for technology and published over 100 papers, including over 40 journal papers.
Neil made numerous TV appearances and has featured in mass media films / articles. Neil is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at events globally. He is an Invited Lecturer at University of Queensland and is Visiting Professor at University of Louisville |
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Nigel’s fourteen years of Out of Home experience encompass campaign sales, production coordination through to integration of the latest print technology and designing IT systems. As General Manager of Cactus Imaging he works with major Media clients Creative Agencies and an experienced Sales Team to produce killer campaigns. Based in Sydney, Nigel spends a great deal of time traveling throughout Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia promoting Cactus and their Award winning facility. |
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Paul Lindström entered the graphic arts industry in 1980 as a typographer and graphic designer. He has worked in computer assisted graphic design and print production ever since. Paul was the production manager and owner of a commercial printer where he became involved with digital printing, before moving to Elanders’ Electronic Printing division. During his three years with Elanders Paul played a key role in developing the company’s variable data management and print on demand strengths.
Between 1993 and 2003 Paul worked as technical editor for AGI, Scandinavia’s leading graphics arts trade magazine. In addition to his continuing work with AGI, he now lectures part time for the Graphic Arts Department at Malmoe University, running degree courses on digital imaging, colour- and quality management, the optimization of workflow systems and production processes. Since 1998 Paul is an UKAS accredited auditor for ISO 9001 and ISO 12647 certification. He is also an appointed expert to ISO TC130, the technical committee responsible for authoring ISO standards for graphic arts and print media production. |
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Paul started in the printing industry in 1970 having already spent 15 years in the surface coating industry and is a qualified chemist and lawyer. For 20 years he was responsible for regulatory affairs at FujiFilm Sericol and eight years he headed their Environmental Services Division. While at Sericol he was chairman of ESMA and its Health, Safety and Environmental Protection Committee. He is a member of the UK Health and Safety Executive’s Printing Industry Advisory Committee and an advisor to the European Union Environmental Agency on best environmental practices to the printing industry. He acts as a health, safety and environmental consultant to the printing industry and its trade associations. |
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Managing Director, PSJ Training Ltd. Paul established his own training consultancy – Paul Streeter Training Services - in 1989, specialising in the areas of professional sales and people management. Prior to that he had several years experience in the City, including 3 years as the Management Training Advisor for a B2B publishing organisation and 4 years as the Training Manager for a leasing company.
Over the last 22 years Paul has worked with more than 60 organisations, at both national and international level. He continues to design and deliver practical learning and development workshops that help delegates make a real difference in the workplace. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. |
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Richard is Chairman and Managing Director of Gardners, based in Cardiff UK. Richard founded the business in 1975, after working for 5 years as an industrial designer within a large group of companies. During this time he was responsible for three patents and these patents formed the basis of the newly formed company.
Initially concentrating on screen and flexographic printing methods he continued to develop and patent various products used across many different markets. Key developments include slip resistant finishes in baths, chemically resistant battery labels and the development of numerous adhesives used in the security and financial industries.
In 1999 he made the decision to convert the whole business over to digital, finally giving up all analogue processes in 2005. His was the first business to successfully digitally print polyethylene as an alternative to PVC and it was introduced to the market in 2004. Gardners are now one of the largest digital companies in Europe and Richard continues to develop materials, processes and software for their diverse range of customers including the London 2012 Olympics. |
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Sarel Ashkenazi is the VP of Marketing and Business Development at Kornit Digital.
Sarel leads Kornit's sales and marketing, and his responsibilities include defining and driving market strategy, market awareness and positioning, as well as roadmap planning, establishing and expanding Kornit’s distributor network and for directing the business development of the company. Sarel is a known specialist in the area of digital printing and his expertise has earned him opportunities to speak at major industry events, brief analysts and run strategic thought-leadership sessions with customers. Prior to joining Kornit Digital, Sarel held the position of Marketing Director for Image ID - provider of the Visidot™ product line, advanced, multiple-asset Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) solutions that are based on imaging technology and sophisticated algorithms.
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Sophie Matthews-Paul is an independent international consultant, concentrating on the wide-format digital print market, its technologies, and its use in industry today and in the future. She works with many of the industry's leading and fledgling manufacturers, as well as vendors and end-users. Sophie is based in Europe, and contributes regularly to many specialist publications world-wide. She is also a photographer and has been involved with pre-press and the practical aspects of ink-jet production since the earliest days of its development. |
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Although a Londoner born and bred, Stephen is now based at the headquarters of Hewlett Packard’s Graphic Solutions Business in Barcelona. He is the Environmental Leadership Program Manager for this organisation, which encompasses the Designjet, Indigo, Inkjet Web Press and Scitex brands.
Stephen joined HP some three years ago, having worked previously for companies including Philips in the Netherlands and Germany, and also Britain's GKN. He holds a degree in Technology & Management from the University of Bradford and an MBA from the IESE business school in Barcelona. |
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Suyin Aerts is a Belgian woman of 37 with a Chinese first name who is very passionate about communication in all his ways.
After a successful career as an international ballet dancer and an actress for national Belgian television, she made a huge career switch by working for ten years in Fashion Industry. In the function of National Sales Manager she managed the showroom in Belux for Marithé + François Girbaud which is a very creative, innovative, high end, French fashion label.
After finishing a Master in Industrial Business Policy degree in 2006 magna cum laude (Business administration and Project Management) she joined about four years ago the X-Treme team initially as CFO. She combines this financial function since 2009 with sales and marketing.
Suyin is a very supportive person who loves to network and meet people. She also runs a busy hosehold with husband Dan Vandevoorde and has two lovely girls of 3 and 4 years old.
Whether you're chasing heart or fortune, whether you're building a household or a firm, the highest quality of life comes down to this: HOW MUCH LOVE DID LIFE MAKE YOU FEEL? |
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Thorsten Arndt, Head of Communications, PEFC
After finishing his Master in Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Thorsten began his professional life at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
He then worked at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as Communications Manager before joining PEFC. |
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