PRINTING NEWS - Key Persons
Adam is COO and a partner in WhatTheyThink. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and has a background in graphic communications and digital imaging systems. His professional interests are around building media and technology platforms.
Job Titles:
- Production Editor
- the Production Editor
Amy Hahn is the Production Editor for Printing News and a partner in delivering unbiased news and market intelligence to the printing industry. Amy holds a BA in communications and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Cary Sherburne is a well-known author, journalist and marketing consultant whose practice is focused on marketing communications strategies for the printing, packaging, publishing and textiles industries.
Job Titles:
- Labels & Packaging Editor / Analyst
David travels the globe helping companies increase their productivity, margins and market reach.
David Zwang travels around the globe helping companies increase their productivity, margins and market reach. With over 40 years of industry experience, David specializes in process analysis, and strategic development of firms in the fields of publishing, packaging, design, premedia, and printing across the globe.
He began in the graphic arts as a commercial photographer, and has since founded and sold several prepress and printing operations. His experience includes expertise pre-media and cross media publishing, with an extensive background in digital, offset, and flexo printing processes. His expertise in production optimization, strategic business planning, market analysis, and related services to companies in the vertical media communications market has transformed many businesses.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Director
- Administrative Director for the Printing and Publishing Industry 's Leading Media Organization.
Deborah Papineau has been involved in the printing industry since 1995, when she began helping Dr. Joe Webb launch the TrendWatch surveys of the graphic communications markets. For the next 13 years, she served as support staff and "data wrangler" for TrendWatch (later TrendWatch Graphic Arts), and joined the WhatTheyThink team in 2008. Today, Debbie handles WhatTheyThink's accounting and bookkeeping, ad reporting, lead-generation activities, and miscellaneous administrative functions, on top of updating WhatTheyThink's industry data sites and producing charts and tables for WhatTheyThink research reports. In whatever spare time she has, she enjoys spending time with her family, practicing yoga, and hiking with her two Goldens, Brody and Brooke. A native of Rhode Island, she actually loves winter and snow, and is an avid skier.
Job Titles:
- President
- President of WhatTheyThink
Eric is the President of WhatTheyThink and a serial online entrepreneur with a focus on building online engagement in niche content-driven communities. Since 2002, he has played a key role in the development and growth of WhatTheyThink. This includes recruiting and managing some of the industry's best thought leaders, cementing relationships with the company's broad array of sponsors, initiating and managing ongoing partnerships with key industry stakeholders, and helping to guide the organization into new areas of coverage and new opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Sales & Marketing Director
Henrik Christiansen is Sales & Marketing Director and part owner of Graphic Robotics in Odense, Denmark and has long experience in the printing industry. Since 2011 he has worked with robot for the printing industry.
Jessica Taylor is a freelance videographer, writer and editor living in Melbourne, FL. When she's not trapped in front of a computer or behind a camera, she runs her improv troupe, Not Quite Right Improv.
Kelley Holmes is VP and a partner in WhatTheyThink that produces WhatTheyThink Magazine in the Printing News & Wide-Format & Signage versions and the websites WhatTheyThink.com, PrintingNews.com and InkjetInsight.com.
Kelley Holmes is VP and partner in WhatTheyThink that produces WhatTheyThink Magazine in the Printing News & Wide-Format & Signage versions and the websites WhatTheyThink.com, PrintingNews.com and InkjetInsight.com. She previously worked as Group Publisher for Southcomm Business Media and acquired the Printing News publications July 10, 2018 after working as part of the team for 25 years. She was formerly an account executive for Quick Printing, Southern Graphics, & Artes Graficas under the ownership of Rob Schweiger, founder of Quick Printing (now Printing News) and owner of Coast Publishing, until it was acquired by Cygnus Business Media in 1995. Shortly after, she became Associate Publisher under the ownership of PTN Publishing and then, in 2004, was named Publisher of Quick Printing for Cygnus Business Media (now SouthComm) taking over the Printing Portfolio in 2009. Kelley and her team have worked to integrate the Printing group brands, transitioning the publications into the Sign Market and building the business strategy of the current multi-media web portal. She also published the Graph Expo/ PRINT Show Daily for 7 years working with NPES and recently launched with her partners the @Event Media brand focusing on custom publishing.
Job Titles:
- Co - Owner of Inkjet Insight
- Owner of SchillingInkjetConsulting
- Owner, Schilling Inkjet Consulting
As a co-owner of Inkjet Insight and the owner of SchillingInkjetConsulting, Mary Schilling consults with paper mills, fluid and inkjet machinery suppliers and end users on how to improve color and print quality for paper, plastics, metal, fabric and more.
Michael McDonald is the President of SPESA. He is also currently completing his doctoral degree in Textile Technology Management at North Carolina State University (NC State) with a focus on workforce development in the manufacturing sector of the sewn products industry. While studying for his doctorate, he has served as adjunct professor, advisor for the Textile Apparel Technology Management Student Advisory Board, teaching assistant, and guest lecturer.
Job Titles:
- Printing Industry Consultant
Stephanie Papp is in Business Development for WhatTheyThink publisher of WhatTheyThink | Printing News & Wide-Format & Signage print editions and the B2B websites WhatTheyThink.com, PrintingNews.com and InkjetInsight.com.
Job Titles:
- Founder, President, and CEO of Copresco
- Member of Southminster Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn
- Member of the Wheaton Rotary Club
- President & CEO of Copresco
Johnson is the founder, president, and CEO of Copresco, a digital on-demand printer of books, manuals, and publications located in the Chicago area.
Steve Johnson, president & CEO of Copresco, is an executive with over 40 years of experience in the graphic arts. Johnson has extensive skills in business management, marketing and sales, business process development-and is an award-winning writer. He founded Copresco, a pioneer in digital printing technology and printing on-demand, in 1987.
Johnson was a founding member of the Digital Printing Council of the Printing Industries of America. He has also served on PIA's Sales & Marketing Executives council. He served on the board of directors of the Printing Industry of Illinois/Indiana Association and has been a member of the finance committee. He has been honored as a senior member by the Society for Technical Communication.
Johnson has been active as an author, consultant and speaker on a variety of business and technological topics for the graphic arts and technical communications industries. Thousands of readers enjoy his popular monthly column Johnson's World which has appeared in Printing Impressions, American Printer, and Printing News magazines for which he has won APEX and STC awards. He has also won numerous awards for publications excellence, marketing communications, newsletter editing and website creation and development.
In addition to monthly magazine columns, Johnson has been published in the journals Graphic Arts Technical Foundation World, Printing Industries of America Technology Forecast, and Inland Press Association Inlander. He has been featured in such magazines as Printing Impressions, Modern Reprographics, Business Ledger, Quick Printing, In-Plant Graphics, and Printing Equipment Guide.
Johnson is a member of Southminster Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois where he has served as an elder. He is an elected Milton Township committeeman.
WhatTheyThink is the global printing industry leading independent media organization with both print and digital offerings, including WhatTheyThink.com, PrintingNews.com and WhatTheyThink magazine versioned with a Printing News and Wide Format & Signage.