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Brian Dollard is Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development, Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA Inc.

John Berthelsen is the VP-Development, Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF). 

Dan Johansen is the Marketing Manager of Wide Format Solutions in the Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group at Ricoh USA.

Pat McGrew, M-EDP, CMP is the Director and Evangelist for the Production Workflow Service at InfoTrends. As an analyst and industry educator, McGrew works with InfoTrends customers and its clients to promote workflow effectiveness. She also has a background in data-driven customer communication, and production printing with offset, inkjet, and toner. Co-author of eight industry books, editor of "A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge," and regular writer in the industry trade press, McGrew won the 2014 #GirlsWhoPrint Girlie Award for her dedication to education and communication in the industry, and the 2016 Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award from Xplor International. Find Pat on Twitter as @PatMcGrew and LinkedIn.

Toni McQuilken is the senior editor for the printing and packaging group.

Cory Francer is the editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions.

Eileen Fritsch is a Cincinnati-based freelance journalist who has covered the evolution of wide-format digital printing for more than 20 years. Contact her at eileen@eileenfritsch.com.

Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited nearly 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, cosponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

Andy Kowl is a journalist and entrepreneurial publisher with more than 30 years developing, marketing and growing publishing companies. He is senior vice president of publishing strategy for ePublishing Inc., the leading enterprise publishing system (EPS) provider which manages content, audience data, workflow, newsletters and e-commerce for hundreds B2B online publications. He helps publishers increase reader engagement and response by integrating behavioral data with contextual content, and shows them direct ways to monetize the results. Andy writes the B2B Beat blog for Publishing Executive magazine. His background in B2B includes publishing, editing and/or owning magazines and information products covering specialty retail, horse breeding, real estate, credit unions, Wall Street compliance and wireless technology. 

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Mark Michelson is the Editor-in-Chief of Printing Impressions. Serving in this role since 1985, Michelson is an award-winning journalist and member of several industry honor societies. Reader feedback is always encouraged. Email mmichelson@napco.com

Bill Schiffner has covered the imaging industry for more than 25 years. He has reported on the many new digital technologies that have reshaped the imaging marketplace.

Located in the Netherlands, technical author Wim Zoomer writes stories on applications and various companies’ successes. He has several published articles in screen printing and industrial technology magazines about flatbed and rotary screen printing technology for both graphic and industrial applications, such as printed electronics. He is the author of Printing Flat Glass, a book about architectural glass decoration processes.

Wim has been a consultant of the European Screen Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) and is a member of the Academy of Screen and Digital Printing Technologies (ASDPT).

Patrick Henry a Senior Editor at NAPCO Media and writes for In-plant Graphics, Printing Impressions and Packaging Impressions.

Ashley Roberts is the Managing Editor of the Printing & Packaging Group.

Ron Gilboa is a director of InfoTrends’ Functional Printing and Packaging, and is responsible for conducting graphic communications market research, market forecasting, custom consulting projects, strategy and planning engagements, and creating editorial content for product and market analysis reports. Gilboa has been involved in the graphic arts and publishing industries since 1980. He rejoined InfoTrends in 2013 after the better part of a decade with Eastman Kodak, where he served in executive marketing roles in the Commercial Imaging group. Gilboa's roles at Kodak included vice president of marketing at Kodak’s Production Inkjet group, director of worldwide current marketing and operation, and director of worldwide communications. In these roles Gilboa managed a cross functional team responsible for overall go-to-market including strategy development, marketing operations, and in market execution across the individual regional strategic product groups. Prior to Kodak, he held senior positions as director of the Print On Demand and Publishing Service at InfoTrends (formerly CAP Ventures) and product management at Scitex Corp. Gilboa brings skills and experience in key print industries such as commercial, publishing, packaging, transaction, enterprise, as well as direct customer knowledge in vertical markets. Contact him at (781) 616-2108.

Jerry Hill is the Vice President; New Business Development at Drytac.

Jim Williams is director of marketing, Kirk-Rudy.

Toby Saalfeld is the U.S. Director of Color Management for Ricoh.

Mike Herold is the director, Continuous-Feed, for Ricoh's Global Marketing Group.

Chris Rosati is with UPS Freight Marketing.

Jose Li is founder and CEO of 71lbs.

Rick Hatton is president of Banner Ups.

Andy Young is the global product manager, production software for Ricoh.

Andy Fetherman is vice president of sales and technology for Muller Martini Corp.

Toni McQuilken has been writing and editing for more than a decade. Her work includes B2B publications – both in print and online – in a range of industries, such as print and graphics, technology, hospitality and automotive; as well as behind the scenes writing and editing for multiple companies, helping them craft marketing materials, write press releases and more. She is a self-proclaimed "tech geek" who loves all things technology, and she knows that she is one of a select group of people who get to do what they love for a living.

Fabián Ruiz is a Chemical Engineer with a Master´s Degree in Printing Technology from RIT. He has been involved in teaching and education for the printing trade for more than 30 years, through GATF, PIA, and recently with PRINTING United Alliance. His activities also brought him to the Presidency of the Colombian Printing Association (Andigraf) in 2015.