CIPPI Awards Review Panel
Biographies of the Judges and the Panel Chair
 Patrick Cahuet
Patrick Cahuet is 46 and runs 1PRIME-concept as Senior Associate. 1PRIME-concept
has been a member of the CIP4 organization since 2003. Patrick Cahuet
has been JDF Certificated Expert since September 2004 and is a member
of the Board of Xplor France. He is the CIP4 JDF Users French Forum Moderator.
1PRIME-concept is a consulting company leader in market intelligence,
business optimisation and training for the Graphic Arts Industry and the
Printing Industry. Our areas of competencies are:
- E-commerce and web to print consulting
- Digital Printing strategy
- Work flow optimisation
- One-to-one marketing and variable data expertise
- Consulting
- Training
Our customers range from medium digital and offset
printers to very large public organisations like France Minister of Finances,
Major French Universities, or private organisations like Renault SAS or
Imprimerie des Timbres Poste. We have been chosen as experts by several
Trade Corporations. We often organise and run conferences on JDF, Digital
Printing and web to print opportunities.
Patrick Cahuet previous experience:
After graduating from Lyon Management School and a degree in Computer
Technology, I have more than 20 years of experience in the Graphic Art
Industries.
- Prepress: Senior sales rep for Linotype France, Itek Graphics
Prepress Solutions Mananger for Polychrome France
- Digital printing: Systems Engineer and 1:1 Marketing Manager for IBM Printing System Division
- Offset Printing and Digital Printing: DI manager and Digital Printing Solutions
Director for Heidelberg France
Thanks to these different sales and marketing
responsibilities, I have visited more than 1,000 companies in the industry.
My competencies cover large areas of printing applications from NetWork
Multi Function Printers to Offset printing and Production Printing.
Misc: Patrick usually rides a BMW R1200RT Bike to visit his customers
during the week. On week ends, he'd rather ride a bicycle or train for
long distance runnings
Contact at:
Claye-Souilly, France
Email: p.cahuet@1prime-concept.com
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 James E. Harvey
James E. Harvey is the founder and president of Media4theWorld, LLC,
which provides management and technical consulting to the media industries.
He was responsible for the edit and production of the 1.1 and 1.2 editions
of the Job Definition Format specification and continues to serves as
CIP4 Organization's Executive Director. He is also a co-founder and partner
of Quantum Paper, LLC — the only company capable of printing full-motion
video displays to ordinary paper. For eight years was VP of Spectrum Opera-tions
at Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance), a technical and
management association for the print and Internet publishing industries.
For eight years Harvey was also a Business Development Manager at Volt
Information Sciences where he organized and pioneered document and data
warehousing, SGML services and appli-cations, CD-ROM publishing, hypermedia,
and object-oriented document constructs. He has held numerous industry
posts including VP & Board member of TAGA, Secretary and member of the
Executive Committee of the Digital Ad Lab, Secretary of ANSI/PIMI IT2
(Densitometry), has authored or co-authored several key industry documents,
and has spoken at over 100 industry events. Jim earned his M.S. in Business
from John Hopkins University.
Contact at:
Crofton, Maryland, USA
Email: Executive_Director@cip4.org
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 Stephan Jaeggi
Stephan Jaeggi is an internationally recognized prepress expert specializing
in PDF and JDF workflows for print production. He has taught several hundred
seminars on PDF technology in Europe and the US. He holds a degree in
print engineering and has been a part time professor at the Swiss Engineering
School for Printing for fifteen years. Before founding his own consulting
company in 1992 is was responsible for the prepress system of the largest
weekly newspaper in Switzerland as well as head of IT at the swiss printers
association where he helped hundreds of printers and prepress shops to
switch to desktop publishing. Jaeggi is involved in developing the ISO
PDF/X standards and is a member of the CIP4 (JDF) advisory board. Beside
consulting and teaching seminars Stephan Jaeggi has also a lot of experience
in organizing technical conferences. He served as chairman for several
Seybold conferences in the US and Europe. He was involved in the organization
of the legendary FOGRA conferences on Advances in Computer Publishing
in the early nineties as well as the famous PDF Tours in Germany, Switzerland
and Austria, the PDF-FORUM at XPLOR+GOA2006 and many other conferences.
Contact at:
Binningen, Switzerland
sjaeggi@prepress.ch
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 Tetsuo Kimura
Tetsuo Kimura founded PrinTechno Inc., in May 2005, which performs the
technical consultant of digital printing industry. He belonged to Canon, Inc.
from 1969 to 2004, and was mainly engaged in the product development,
product planning and product marketing of a printer product business.
As soon as he looked at JDF specification Version 1.0 for the first time
in 2001, he was confident that JDF would become the de facto standard of
the printing industry. He was investigating and studying the information
since then which is related to JDF.
Since he has established PrinTechno Inc., he explains the overview of
JDF to a printing machine maker, a software developer, a printing company,
or a service provider in the seminar and study group in Japan, and is serving
technical consulting for them. Recently, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
is regarded as important in a company in Japan. It is not an exception in the
print industry either. Fortunately, he knows Sustainability, Compliance,
Customer satisfaction and so on in addition to CSR. He has launched out the
support to a printing machine maker, a software developer, a printing company
and a service provider towards the printing show IGAS2007 will be held in Japan.
He has been appointed as JAGAT Fellow in 2006 by the authority. (JAGAT: Japan
Association of Graphic Arts Technology)
Contact at:
3-10-4 Higashionuma, Sagamihara, Japan
E-mail: tetsuo.kimura@printechno.com
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 John Leininger
John Leininger is a Professor in the Department of Graphic Communications
at Clemson University. He began his teaching career in 1978 and has been
at Clemson since 1986, He received his Doctorate in Vocational Technical
Education from Clemson University in 1991. He has taught courses in flexography,
lithography, digital printing, inks and substrates as well as the department's
management class dealing with estimating, planning, equipment purchasing,
cost analysis, and plant layout. He has also taught training development
courses in the Department of Human Resource Development at Clemson. He
has presented over 30 industry presentations at independent events and
at over 10 conferences during the past in year. John was recognized "Educator
of the Year" by the Electronic Document Systems Foundation, in 2004 and
when asked about his presentation style he describes it as "Meat and Potatoes"
with a specific goal of giving the attendee information they can take
home and apply in their own company.
Contact at:
Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Email: LJohn@clemson.edu
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 Dr. Abhay Sharma
Abhay Sharma is an Associate Professor in the School of Graphic Communications Management at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is author of Understanding Color Management, Delmar, 2004. He received his BS in Imaging Sciences from the University of Westminster, London, and a PhD in Physics from King’s College, University of London. He has worked as a senior research engineer with Fujifilm’s Colour & Imaging Technology Research group (FFEI) in the UK and has taught at Western Michigan University in the US. Abhay has been involved with evaluating imaging systems and JDF Laycrimp instances for the IPA Technical Conference Proofing RoundUPs, held every summer in Chicago. Abhay serves on the Board of Directors of the IPA. Dr Sharma has hosted a 1-day “JDF 101” educational event in conjunction with CIP4 in February 2007 and February 2008, and in June 2010, and is helping to organize a similar event to be held at NorQuest College in June of 2011. Abhay has experience on international standards committees, e.g. he was Chair of the Profile Assessment Working Group of the International Color Consortium (ICC).
Contact at:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: sharma@ryerson.ca
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