

Mark Anderson
Technique Group
United States of America
Mark has worked in the Graphic Arts for almost 20 years. He has held positions with major pre-press vendors in roles such as project management, consultancy, product management, research and development, and international marketing in North America, Europe and the Middle East. He is currently V.P. Professional Services for Technique Inc. - a leading vendor of cutting edge, JDF-enabled MIS systems. He is also a Certified JDF Expert.
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Martin Bailey
Global Graphics Software
United Kingdom
Martin Bailey, Senior Technical Consultant, specifies and designs many aspects of Global Graphic's industry-leading Harlequin and Jaws families of RIP and PDF products. He is active in representing Global Graphics on a number of industry bodies and standards committees including chairing those developing JDF and PDF/X and contributing to PPML/VDX, amongst others. He also finds time to be one of his company's PostScript® and PDF experts. Martin has around 18 years of experience building, using, supporting and improving products for the electronic publishing and graphic arts industries in programming and technical support as well as in consulting, service bureaus, and production management.
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Doug Belkofer
CIP4 Fellow 2008
United States of America
Being a big-picture person, Doug is able to grasp the overall vision, and present it either from a top-down or bottom-up approach. With over 20 years of experience in the printing industry, Doug has seen many of the issues and best practices related to successfully integrating products. He has previously been a speaker at many conferences and shows, including Digital Smart Factory, Drupa, DDAP's Annual Conference, IPEX, Seybold, and Print. Doug has been involved in CIP4 and JDF starting from the transition of CIP3 into CIP4, and the initial work to create JDF 1.0. He was also the co-chair of three CIP4 working groups: System Behaviour & Interoperability, Device Messaging/Job Tracking, and MIS. He was involved in many other working groups, and was an active participant in the CIP4 Technical Steering Committee. Doug is currently the Chief Technology Officer for the IPA, The Association for Graphic Solutions Providers, where he is responsible for analyzing the technology needs of the membership, and defining, developing, and communicating relevant programs that impact members' workflow efficiencty. In his previous role at EFI, Doug guided design and development related to technical integration efforts, including JDF-based integration. Prior to EFI, he worked in a similar role at Printcafe Software, which was acquired by EFI in late 2003. Prior to Printcafe, Doug worked at Programmed Solutions, PSI, for eight years as a senior software engineer and also served on the management committee. PSI was acquired by Printcafe in January, 2000. At PSI, he designed and implemented major parts of the PSI Print Management System. Prior to PSI, Doug worked for a flexographic printer in Toledo, Ohio, as a systems analyst and network administrator. There he developed many systems to automate their operations including a full estimating system. Doug attended the University of Akron, majoring in Electrical Engineering an Computer Science, and Bowling Green State University, majoring in Computer Science.
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Timothy Daisy
Prism Group Holdings Ltd
United States of America
Tim has spoken on the subject of process improvement using Lean techniques for over 15 years. Over the past 5 years, Tim has focused on using JDF as a means to cost cost and cycle time reduction. He has spoken throughout North America for NAPL's Digital Smart Factory and R&E Council, VuePoint, Seybold, CIM in Print, and Graph Expo as well as at events sponsored by vendors and printers throughout the industry. Tim is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree of High Distinction in Mechanical Engineering. His career has focused on business and production process improvement techniques and he has applied this knowledge to the printing industry for over ten years.
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Peter Doyle
Müller Martini
United States of America
Peter Doyle is the Corporate Integration and Workflow Manager for Muller Martini. He has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology from Eastern Kentucky University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. Peter worked at printing companies as a Manager/VP of Manufacturing in the book, catalog, directory, magazine and commercial printing markets for over 26 years before joining Muller Martini. Peter has managed the Estimating, Scheduling, Pre-press, Sheet Press, Web Press, Post-Press (including cutters, folders, saddle stitchers, perfect binders and case binders) Mailing, Fulfillment, Shipping and Maintenance departments. He has hands-on production workflow experience of the estimating, order entry, scheduling, job planning/imposition and invoicing processes. While at Action Printing he was an early pioneer in the area of JDF workflow integration. The company was awarded one of the first CIPPI awards in 2005 for the "Best cost/benefit realization as a result of process automation implementation". Peter has made numerous presentations at industry events on the topics of improving productivity, reducing press and post press waste and JDF/JMF integrated workflows. He as written articles on these topics for industry publications and is the author of the book "Benchmarking the Bindery".
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James Harvey
Media4theWorld
United States of America
James E. Harvey is the founder and president of Media4theWorld, LLC, which provides management and technical consulting to the media industries. He is responsible for the edit and production of the Job Definition Format specification, and also serves as CIP4 Organization�s Executive Director. For eight years was VP of Spectrum Operations 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 applications, CD-ROM publishing, hypermedia, and object-oriented document constructs. He has held numerous industry posts including VP & Board member of TAGA, Secretary and mem-ber 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.
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Robert Herriot
Global Workflow Solutions
United States of America
Dr. Robert Herriot has worked on numerous printing related issues for more than 15 years. He has served as a software engineer, technical lead and project manager for many software projects over the years. He has also authored many technical documents. He is currently the editor for the JDF 1.3 Specification and the editor of all JDF ICS documents. He is currently working as a consultant for JDF. He wrote an article on JDF for the March 2004 issue of American Printer and he has given JDF training courses and JDF Webinars. While at Xerox, he worked on the initial development of Digital Printing for JDF in 2000 and on its relationship to PODi�s PPML. While at Xerox and Sun Microsystems, he co-designed Java Print APIs which are now in J2SE and he co-designed the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) which most printers and operating systems now support. He is the author of 11 IETF RFCs, including several on the Internet Printing Protocol. Earlier in his career he was a Computer Science Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Robert received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University, and a premier degré in French with a minor in German and Russian from the Université de Grenoble, France.
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Stephan Jaeggi
PrePress Consulting Stephan Jaeggi
Switzerland
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 and JDF 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 he 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. He is Technical Officer of the Ghent PDF Workgroup and founding member of PDFX-ready. He is also a member of the CIP4 advisory board since the beginning and serves as a judge for the CIPPI awards.
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Tetsuo Kimura
Printechno Inc.
Japan
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 Ver1.0 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 is studying the relation between CSR and printing business, and is carrying out a publication and lecture of this field. Now, he is supporting 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)
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Jim Mauro
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
United States of America
James Mauro began his career in the Graphic Arts and Printing industry with Hell Graphic Systems in 1983. With continuous service, he has held various positions leading to his current responsibility as Product Manager for Prinect Press Products at Heidelberg USA, headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia. The Heidelberg Prinect system is a comprehensive Computer Integrated Manufacturing system based on open standards that integrates a complete range of applications from MIS to Prepress to Press and Postpress systems. James graduated from Belmont Abbey College (Belmont, NC) with a BA degree in Business Administration, Marketing, and English. A native of Long Island, NY, James has been living in the Atlanta metro area since 1997.
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Margaret Motamed
EFI
United States of America
Margaret Motamed is Director of Software Platforms and 3rd Party Alliances at EFI. At EFI, Margaret is responsible for program management of all internal Fiery platforms and projects. Margaret is the EFI Advisory Board representative to PODI, the sponsor of the PPML language. Margaret is also the CEO for CIP4, the industry organization responsible for JDF, the new workflow enabling Job Definition Format. Margaret has spoken at and chaired several industry conferences and events, including SGIA, IGAS, drupa, JDF Intensive at Seybold Amsterdam, and more.
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Gareth O'Brien
EFI
United States of America
A strong developer with excellent leadership and communication skills, Gareth O�Brien knows how to design and develop comprehensive business solutions. A Civil Engineer by training (B.E. National University of Ireland, 1992), with a Masters degree in Computing and Information Systems (University of Ulster, 1995), he specializes in problem analysis and the carefully planned design and development of total solutions for MIS and eBusiness systems. Gareth has worked to develop PDF-based online artwork generation and Internet-based tools for the management of print purchasing. He has been involved with implementing the Job Definition Format (JDF) in software systems since before the release of JDF 1.0 and is active in several CIP4 working groups and the CIP4 Technical Steering Committee. Over the past two years Gareth has been giving educational presentations explaining JDF and especially its role as the foundation of a connected supply chain for the print industry.
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Rainer Prosi
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Germany
Dr. Rainer Prosi is a high-energy particle physicist turned workflow architect working with Heidelberg since 1998 as a Senior Workflow Architect. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Kiel, Germany in 1992. He worked at the particle physics laboratories CERN and DESY where he evaluated the debris of colliding protons, electrons and positrons in the UA1 and H1 experiments. He has been involved with the Job Definition Format (JDF) project from its early phases in 1999 and is one of the primary authors of the JDF specification and the Interoperability Conformance Specifications (ICS) that are related to JDF. Prior to his work on JDF, he worked on variable data workflow and PDF optimization. He is currently working on a number of workflow and JDF related projects within Heidelberg. He is also the Chief Technical Officer of CIP4 where he is coordinating the technical development efforts related to JDF, PrintTalk and the ICS documents.
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Janice Reese
Objective Advantage, Inc.
United States of America
A recognized Printing and Prepress Industry leader for over twenty years, Janice has proven executive management, marketing, sales and technology experience in the tough world of ecommerce, prepress, print, and new media. She is currently Executive Director of Network PDF and VP of Business Development with Objective Advantage, bringing together solutions to integrate the Graphic Arts Enterprise supply chain and drive automation and innovation in the industry. She provides strategic and tactical marketing for business development and implementation using accredited industry standards as the platform. Reese is active in industry associations and standards groups including IdeAlliance, CIP4, PODi and CGATS. Reese is on the Advisory Board of CIP4.
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Mark Wilton
Wilton & Partners Consulting Inc.
Canada
Managing Director, Wilton & Partners Consulting Inc. A privately held organization specialising in Sales, Marketing, Strategy & Business Development Consultative Services in the Graphic Arts, Printing & Communications Industries. Most recently with Kodak as Director, Partner & Sustainability Initiatives, Kodak Graphics Communications Group. Moved to North America from Australia in 2004; where he was the Marketing Manager, Creo Australia, New Zealand for over 6 years, currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Mark sits on the Board of Directors of CIP4 Organization as the Chief Education & Marketing Officer; was pivotal in the convergence of NGP (Networked Graphic Production) Partners Association becoming part of CIP4; as the new BNG (Business Networking Group) a Business Development Working Group of CIP4. Mark�s previous role and responsibilities included managing the business partner relationships between Kodak and their global partners; as well as all things relating to JDF, process and production automation, integration and connectivity to its partner businesses. Also Sustainability initiatives from Kodak's Vancouver based businesses; especially in regards to workflow solutions. Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Marketing and Communications; University of W. Sydney, Australia as well as a Certificate of Business Management from the Australian Institute of Management, Sydney.
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