WEDNESDAY, February 27, 2008

THURSDAY, February 28, 2008

MICHAEL A. ANDREOTTOLA

MARK BOSWORTH

Mark Bosworth is Vice President of IJ Technologies in St. Louis, Missouri. The Company formulates, manufactures and markets ink jet media through a worldwide network of distributors and private label wholesalers. Bosworth is responsible for Sales, Marketing, New Product Development, Production, and Plant Maintenance.

IJ Technologies has a 30-year background in the production of photographic products for the Graphic Arts industry and was an early adopter of ink jet printing in the 1980s. In 1989, IJ Technologies was one of the first to develop ink jet proofing papers that offered the high quality and consistency the proofing market demanded.

Bosworth joined IJ Technologies in June 2002 after working as a professional photographer on assignments that ranged from annual reports to aerial photographs. He also managed a number of professional photo processing labs and served as a sales representative for AGFA, Durst, and Kinetronics.

Mark Bosworth earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in June 1979; he later studied coating process fundamentals at the University of Minnesota, completing his course work in June 2007.

He has been an active member of various committees with the Photo Marketing Association and the Association of Professional Color Imagers.

Mr. CHARLES BREWER

As Managing Editor of The Hard Copy Supplies Journal, Charles Brewer is responsible for researching and writing about hard copy marking and media supplies. The Hard Copy Supplies Journal is published monthly by Lyra Research, a leading provider of imaging information about markets, products, and technology. This periodical also presents analyses focused on the imaging industry, including articles and reports on toners, inkjet inks, and media.

Mr. Brewer’s experience encompasses more than 15 years as a technology research editor and writer for various book publishers and computer and business publications. He was an online consultant for Ziff-Davis and Inc. magazine, and the Research Editor for Inc.’s special publications, including Inc. Technology and Inc. 500.

Charles Brewer also provided editorial support for publications from the International Data Group and International Data Corporation, as well as for consultancies such as, the Boston Group.

Mr. DAVID CONNETT

David Connett is Publisher and Managing Editor of The Recycler Trade Magazine published in London by Recycler Publishing and Events Ltd. This monthly periodical is focused on the global toner and inkjet cartridge remanufacturing market and the imaging industry in general. It is also published in Chinese from offices in China.

Connett is Founder and Organizer of the ReMax trade shows that have taken place in Paris since the Spring of 1999, in Barcelona from 2002 to 2006 and in Düsseldorf in 2007. On July 22, 2005, Recycler Publishing and Events launched a new global conference titled Remax Asia Pacific, at the Sheraton Perth Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. This event was later held in Zhuhai, China.

Connett is also Vice President of the European Toner and Inkjet Remanufacturers Association (ETIRA) and is an active lobbyist on remanufacturing matters in Europe and nationally within the United Kingdom.

Connett is an electronics engineer by profession and prior to taking over Recycler Trade Magazine in December 1997 he first got involved in remanufacturing in the late 1980's as an active remanufacturer producing a broad spectrum of remanufactured products.

Connett is a seasoned politician and until 2002 was an executive member of Oxford City Council and chaired the local social housing program, managing an annual budget of £140M (USD$260 million). More recently, he has been active in raising the awareness of the needs for ex-service veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

In his spare time Connett supports his local football team Oxford United and researches military history and is a keen, but poor photographer.

MR. JOHN F. COOPER

John Cooper is President of Toner Research Services, a firm he founded in 1983. The mission of Toner Research Services is to provide consulting and information-related services to the toner, jet ink and related imaging industries. These services include technical, business, intellectual property, or general industry information related to toners, ink jet inks, their raw material components, production, testing and use.

TRS offers a number of publications available by subscription. These include Toner Technology Monthly; Ink Jet Materials Technology Monthly; and Toner and Jet Ink News. In late 2006, TRS launched publication of a semi-annual Raw Materials Supplier Guide.

John Cooper is a chemist by training with more than 34 years experience in all phases of toner development and manufacture. He has held technical or management positions with Nashua Corporation, Aunyx Manufacturing (co-founder), Hercules, and was the founder of Colortone (now Color Imaging). He has 10 patents issued with additional applications pending.

Toner Research recently relocated back to Black Mountain, NC where it operated for much of the 1990s.

Ms. NINA DEMIRCHIAN

Ms. NINA DEMIRCHIAN

Nina Demirchian is a manufacturer’s representative for some of the finest media and ink manufacturers in the digital printing industry. Her clients include specialty paper, film and media producers, and media coaters for ink jet and toner-based imaging systems.

Headquartered in Agoura Hills, California, Ms. Demirchian operates as Platinum Coating Solutions, assisting her clients with their marketing strategies as well as direct sales. She also coaches them on new product developments specific to their customers’ needs.

Her background and qualifications for these activities began as Sales Manager with the Verbatim Corporation in Sunnyvale, California. At that time, Verbatim was the world’s largest producer of floppy disks

Demirchian was later named National Sales and Marketing Manager for Pentel of America, in Torrance, California. There she created the Technical Products Division, a new unit of the company devoted to the development of plotter pens and ink jet supplies.

At Rayven in St. Paul, Minnesota, she also served as National Sales Manager, developing toll coating opportunities for this specialty media coater and converter. In addition, she opened up new distribution channels for Rayven in the US and international markets.

Ms. Demirchian divides her time between sales opportunities for her clients and photo opportunities for her 7-year old son.

ARTHUR S. DIAMOND

Art Diamond is a 52-year veteran of the imaging industry, having worked in this field continuously since 1955. He is currently President of Diamond Research Corporation (DRC), a chemical research and consulting firm he formed in 1968.  Diamond is also Chairman of The Tiara Group, a multi-level meeting planning firm that produces the high tech Imaging Materials Seminar® series originally launched by DRC in 1984, in addition to numerous corporate meetings, technical association symposia, and other special events.

Prior to forming DRC, Diamond was engaged in research and development at Eastman Kodak's Paper Service Division and at Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York from 1955 to 1960.  He later was named Chief Chemist for the Times Facsimile Division of Litton Industries in New York City from 1960 to 1961.  This led to appointments as Research Manager at AM International in Mt. Prospect, IL from 1961 to 1967 and as Chief Chemist at Telautograph Corporation in Los Angeles.

For five years, Diamond served as President of the Los Angeles-based Consulting Chemists Association.  He is a licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York in 1951, and an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, NY in 1958.

Diamond holds 15 US patents in the field of reprography. He is also Editor of the reference text, Handbook of Imaging Materials first published in July 1991 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.  The Second Edition of this text was printed in January 2002.

MERILYN DUNN

Merilyn Dunn is a Director of InfoTrends, Inc. with more than 20 years experience researching and advising paper and other media manufacturers, peripheral producers and distributors. InfoTrends is a strategic consulting firm for providers and users of business communication technologies and services. The Weymouth, Massachusetts-based consultancy delivers key research, analysis, forecasting, benchmarking, and strategy recommendations “to make a competitive difference in our clients’ businesses.”

At InfoTrends, she developed the forecast methodology and directed the research of the 1997 Future of Papers study which examined the effects of technology on the use of paper through 2015.

Before joining InfoTrends, Ms. Dunn was a Senior Industry Analyst with the Hard Copy Supplies Service at BIS Strategic Decisions where she managed the forecasting process. Her years of service in imaging media has provided extensive knowledge of the printing and communication paper industry. She works with virtually all leading global OEM, paper and forms manufacturers. She is a regular speaker at key industry events, has authored numerous articles on significant paper industry trends, and is frequently quoted.

Prior to BIS Strategic Decisions, Ms. Dunn developed end-to-end MIS systems for Accounting, Quality Control, Inventory Control—including automatic ordering processes, receiving, recording, fulfillment, and payment applications—for organizations in both the private and public sectors, and taught and trained system users.

MAGNUS FELKE

Magnus Felke joined Kodak’s San Diego Systems Division in July 2006. As Director of Future Product Marketing he sets the direction for the development of Kodak’s consumer inkjet printers.

Prior to Kodak, Felke spent more than 10 years at Hewlett-Packard. He served in different marketing roles in HP’s consumer ink jet printing business. His experience at HP includes product marketing for All-in-One products, building HP’s ink jet OEM business, marketing at APOLLO Consumer Products, as well as a stint in the supply chain.

Felke was born and raised in Germany. He moved to the U.S. in 2000. He holds an undergraduate degree in business and information sciences from the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart, Germany as well as a MBA from the University of San Diego.

MICHAEL FLIPPIN

Michael Flippin is President and General Manager of Web Consulting, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a recognized expert in market analysis for traditional signage, inkjet and screen printing of graphics and other decorative applications. Specializing in the wide format graphics market as well as emerging industrial print applications since 1997, he joined Web Consulting in 2002 to help expand the Company’s range of services to clients in North and South America, Europe and Asia. In March 2003 Flippin established Web Consulting Inc (Boston, MA), and was an integral part of that company’s acquisition of Vector Marketing in 2004.

Flippin has worked with many leading suppliers to the global graphics industry on projects related to market share and product positioning analysis. His assignments have included new product development, customer satisfaction, customer profiling, brand perception, market modeling and market forecasting. He has characterized specific market trends for the development of future marketing strategies and has assisted clients in building strategies to meet distribution challenges to enhance profitability.

Michael Flippin is a frequent industry speaker and has delivered presentations at key international conferences and trade shows in 18 countries on four continents including AWA, DIMA/PMA, GraphExpo, IFAI, IMI, IntertechPira, ISA, SGIA, and The Tiara Group. A contributing writer and member of the Technical Advisory Board of “Digital Graphics” magazine, Michael has authored more than 30 U.S. trade articles on emerging markets for digital printing and has contributed to dozens of internationally-published articles in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Flippin holds a bachelor of science in business administration from the Boston University School of Management (May 1997).

PATRICK D. FOLEY

Pat Foley is Global Product Manager with DuPont Imaging Technologies in Wilmington, Delaware.  In this capacity, he is responsible for the management of DuPont Digital Textile inks. DuPont has developed a fully integrated, production-capable digital printing solution for printed textiles.  Applications include: apparel, home furnishings, flags, banners, soft signage, and gaming table covers.  

Previously, Foley served as Americas Sales Manager where he managed the sales and support of DuPont™ Artistri™ digital printing for textiles systems in North and South America.

Foley is a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt and has worked in Product Management, Marketing, and Customer Service functions in DuPont Leveraged Operations, as well as the Packaging and Industrial Polymers, and DuPont Qualicon businesses.

Foley’s previous experience includes Sales and Sales Management at Ingersoll-Rand Company as well as Manufacturing Finance at IBM Corporation.

TERRY GORKA

Terry Gorka is Managing Director and a co-founder of The Tiara Group, a meeting, seminar, and trade show planning firm spun-off of Diamond Research Corporation on July 1, 2001.  At Tiara, Gorka combines his wealth of experience in domestic and international meeting planning with DRC’s Imaging Materials Seminars®.  Tiara is thus a full-spectrum event management organization covering incentive and award travel, corporate meetings, trade shows and high-technology seminars.

From 1992 to 2001, Gorka served as General Manager and Founder of Golf Destinations, a San Diego-based domestic and international tour operator and travel agency partner.  Prior to that he owned and operated Golf Pacific Coast in Santa Maria, California working with a number of California corporations on local, golf-related meetings, and with major hotels in planning and executing golf tours.

After attending Chapman College in Orange, California, Gorka spent two years in Italy and Switzerland studying music and the fine arts.  He traveled to Australia in 1975 under contract with Warner Brothers as a producer, arranger, songwriter and entertainer.  After spending 9 years in Sydney and Brisbane, he relocated to London under contract with Carlin Music Publishing.  He left in 1990, an established producer, engineer and arranger having provided services to other recording artists and to the radio and TV commercial advertising market.

WILLIAM GRIER

Dr. ANDREW HANCOCK

Dr. Andrew Hancock is Technical Manager of Nanojet Ink Ltd. (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) with whom he has worked closely on the development of digital printing inks for direct printing to garments.  The latest products from Nanojet Ink include Teebrite® ink, a direct to garment printing ink especially developed for printing onto cotton, polyesters and blends of the two; and Kiss Cut® paper, a novel printing ink and paper combination developed for transfer to garments.  Both inks provide extremely high standards of fastness properties to light, heat, commercial laundering, and a variety of test procedures.

After gaining his BSc degree (with honors) from the Department of Colour and Polymer Chemistry at the University of Leeds in 1999, Hancock went on to become Technical Officer at Akzo Nobel Resins in the UV/EB section at Manchester.  After 18 months working in the UV curable market, he returned to the University of Leeds to study with an industry-sponsored PhD project “Preparation and Characterisation of Radiation Curable Inkjet Printing Inks” under the supervision of Dr. Long Lin.

PROF. JEFFERY S. HSIEH

At Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Jeffery S. Hsieh (“Shay”) is the Director of Pulp and Paper Engineering, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Director of the Center of Excellence for High Yield Pulp Science (CHYPS) jointly with the Institute of Paper Science and Technology.

Recognized as a superb teacher, a prolific writer, and an expert in pulping, bleaching, and recycled papermaking, Dr. Hsieh has made numerous contributions to the paper industry over the past 35 years. A recent patent issued to Dr. Hsieh, U.S. 5,238,538, titled “Methods for Deinking Recycled Fiber by Applying Direct Current Electric Field,” affords a new process for the emerging deinking technology of recycled fibers. This process offers a solution to the complex task of removing fine ink and toner particles from office waste papers.

Dr. Hsieh was graduated from Syracuse University, New York with his MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. From 1973 to 1983, he held research positions with the Empire State Paper Research Institute, Scott Paper Company (now the Kimberly Clark Corporation), and E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company. In 1983, he joined the Georgia Tech faculty serving as Director of Pulp and Paper Engineering.

In 1995 at the Annual TAPPI Conference in New Orleans, Dr. Hsieh was honored as a TAPPI Fellow for his meritorious service to the association and the paper industry.   He has assisted numerous companies in US, Canada, South America, Asia and Europe for process and product improvement.

HENRY LEE

Hank Lee is President of S. N. Coatings USA, Inc. of Carson, California. He is responsible for the firm’s day-to-day operations and for the development of new products. S.N. Coatings is a manufacturer of high quality, digital imaging consumables. Since 1993, it has been developing media coating technology for ink jet printing in addition to its existing adhesive coated media. In the past few years, the company’s ink jet products have been selling to markets around the world through various distribution channels.

S. N. Coatings is especially noted for media that are designed for either water- or  solvent- based ink jet inks, in addition to media for other digital printing technologies.

Mr. Lee joined the company in September 2001 after serving as President of the Five Star Group for a period of five years. He holds a BS degree from the University of Southern California (USC) which was awarded in June 1987.

Dr. NABIL Z. NASR

As Director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) as well as the newly-created Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Dr. Nabil Nasr is responsible for their strategic and operational leadership. The mission of the Golisano Institute is to deliver innovative research and educational programs to industry to facilitate their transformation to sustainability.

Dr. Nasr is also the founding Director of the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery (NC3R), a leading source of applied research and solutions in remanufacturing technologies.  NC3R and CIMS at Rochester Institute of Technology serve as resources for remanufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and government agencies.   

For more than 21 years Dr. Nasr has been a leader in research and development efforts for environmentally benign manufacturing, remanufacturing, sustainable design, and manufacturing strategies.  He has developed strong ties to industry through efforts to implement and improve sustainable production processes at hundreds of companies from diverse sectors. 

He is a renowned presenter on sustainability, remanufacturing, and environmentally benign manufacturing topics, has chaired a number of industry-wide conference sessions, and published numerous technical papers.  He has served on several national task forces in this field and is a member of the National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design.  He is also Chairman of the Remanufacturing Industries Council and serves on several industry boards.  Dr. Nasr has recently been appointed Vice President of the Center for Environmental Information.

Dr. Nasr is the Earl W. Brinkman Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering.  He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, an M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, an M. Eng. in Manufacturing Engineering and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

THOMAS POTZ

Thomas Pötz is Founder, and Chairman of 3P InkJet Textiles AG in Stephanskirchen, Germany. 3P InkJet Textiles is a leading manufacturer of ink jet fabrics and has been producing top quality textiles and canvases for large format ink jet printing worldwide for 15 years. During the past four years, 3P has won a Product of the Year award for its unique imaging materials.

Mr. Pötz holds a Diploma Betreibswirt from the University of Rosenheim that was awarded in 1984.

THOMAS D. REID

Tom Reid is Executive Vice President of Catalina Graphic Films in Calabasas Hills, California. Catalina produces pressure sensitive films for the printing industry, including a full line of vinyls, polyesters, acetates, metallized films, overlaminating films and digital media. The company operates coating lines in Chicago, Atlanta, and Las Vegas.

Reid began his career in the self-adhesive label industry with companies such as Avery and Mactac. He has held various sales, marketing and corporate management positions throughout the years giving him a broad perspective and understanding of these markets and their evolution into the current digital world.

Today, Reid divides his time between his responsibilities at Catalina Graphic and with his consulting firm, Coated Solutions, in Westlake Village, California.

Until June of 2002, Tom Reid served as President and CEO of Sihl USA, the North American operating company of papermaker Sihl AG of Zurich, Switzerland. His duties in that position included managing and directing Sihl’s North American operations in San Jose, California and Binghamton New York. 

In 1992, he formed a consulting company called Coated Resources which completed assignments in product development, sales training, and market development for many major players in our industry. During the mid-1990s, he oversaw Rayven’s development as a niche coater of wide-format and desktop ink jet media until being asked to join Sihl in June of 2000.

Tom Reid holds a BS degree in business management from Georgia State University in 1979.

CHARLES L. SHARP

Building upon 25 years of experience in the imaging industry, Chuck Sharp formed Digital Image Technology in 2001 as a consulting firm specializing in business, marketing, sales and technical management for ink jet printers, consumables and other imaging products.  Headquartered in San Diego the new company provides expertise in many sectors of the digital color imaging market.

Prior to launching Digital Image Technology, Chuck Sharp held senior management positions at Gretag Professional Imaging as Vice President, Marketing; at Encad as Vice President, Supplies; at Hunt Digital Imaging as President and COO; at Sentinel Imaging as Corporate Vice President.  He also founded Digital Graphics, a pioneering all digital service bureau.

Over the last two and a half decades he has provided strategic and technical direction to imaging companies large and small. He helped to create, launch and promote complete product lines and distribution channels in both narrow- and wide-format imaging applications.  His engineering background and financial training, coupled with marketing savvy acquired from hands-on experience, has endowed him with those qualities that brought other leadership positions with Polaroid, Mead Corporation, Eastman Kodak and IRIS Graphics.

In 1976, Sharp was awarded a BS degree in operations research at Cornell University.  He continued with postgraduate studies there to earn his masters degree in electrical engineering one year later.  In 1985, he received an MBA from Boston University.

FRANCIS SHEA, JR

As Executive Vice President for Esprix Technologies, headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, Frank Shea is responsible for further developing and supporting Esprix’s many business units on a global basis. At Esprix, Shea leads the Company’s Commercial and Technical Departments and is responsible for the planning and implementation of managerial strategy.

Esprix is a leading supplier of component and formulated chemistries to the digital imaging industry for inkjet receptive top coatings and specialty toner additives. The Company is also known worldwide in the imaging, pharmaceutical, electronics, automotive, and related fields as a market leader in the application and development of organic and inorganic materials.

Shea is a 25 year veteran of the specialty films and papers industry and is known internationally for his accomplishments in strategic market planning, business management, and new product development. He has led several business teams for a number of leading firms in the imaging industry.

Previously, he worked at Arkwright as Director of Marketing for both their Desktop and Wide Format businesses. Earlier, Shea held senior sales and marketing positions at Van Leer (USA) Ltd., with the Furon Company (Worcester, MA), and Hoechst Celanese (New Castle, DE). He began his career in the imaging industry as an Engineer with ICI Americas Films Division in Wilmington, Delaware.

Shea holds a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell, MA) and an MBA in Marketing from Boston College. He often presents at industry events.  

MICHAEL VON WACHENFELDT

Michael Von Wachenfeldt is a Manager of Commercial Sales and Technical Support for Glen Raven Custom Fabrics in Glen Raven, North Carolina. He is responsible for managing Raven’s Sunbrella® Graphics System program and the company’s digital product lines.

Glen Raven is known worldwide as a leader in the manufacture of woven fabrics designed for outdoor applications. These products include Sunbrella and Dickson® branded offerings and are used in the fabrication of awnings, casual furniture, and other products for marine applications and digital print markets.

Mr. Von Wachenfeldt joined Raven on October 1, 1999 after holding senior sales positions with The Astrup Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Glen Raven acquired Astrup in the Spring of 2007.

Michael Von Wachenfeldt was granted a bachelor of arts degree in business management from Northeastern Illinois University in May 1981.

HENRY WILHELM

Henry Wilhelm is president and director of research at Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. and appears frequently as a speaker on inkjet printing technologies and print permanence at industry conferences, trade shows, and museum conservation meetings.

Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. <www.wilhelm-research.com> was co-founded by Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower Wilhelm in 1995 to conduct research on the stability and preservation of traditional and digital color photographs and motion pictures.  The company publishes brand name-specific permanence data for desktop and large-format inkjet printers and other digital printing devices.  Wilhelm Imaging Research also provides consulting services to museums, archives, and commercial collections on sub-zero cold storage for the very long-term preservation of still photographs and motion pictures.

Henry Wilhelm was one of the founding members of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Committee IT-3, which was established in 1978 and developed the ANSI IT9.9-1990 image stability test methods standard published in 1990 (revised in 1996).  For the past 20 years he has served as Secretary of the group, now known as ISO Working Group 5/Task Group 3 (a part of ISO Technical Committee 42).  Wilhelm serves as Chair of the Indoor Light Stability Test Methods Technical Subcommittee of WG-5/TG-3.

In 1966 Wilhelm served as an assistant to Ansel Adams in one of Adams's photography workshops in Yosemite National Park in California.  Discussions with Adams further increased Wilhelm's interest in the long-term preservation of photographs.  In 1972 he received the first of two U.S. Patents for the design of archival washers for black-and-white fiber base prints.  In the early 1980's, Wilhelm served as volunteer technical advisor to film director Martin Scorsese in his successful efforts to persuade motion picture film manufacturers to improve the dark storage permanence of their products and to promote cold-storage technology for the preservation of color and black-and-white motion picture films.

Wilhelm received a one-year Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 for what became a ten-year study of color print fading and staining under low-level tungsten illumination that simulates museum display conditions.  With contributing author Carol Brower Wilhelm, he wrote “The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures,” published in 1993.  The complete 758-page book is available in PDF form at no cost from www.wilhelm-research.com.

Wilhelm has been a consultant to many collecting institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on various issues related to the display and preservation of both traditional photographic prints and digital print media.  Since 1995, he has been an advisor to Corbis on the long-term preservation of the Corbis Bettmann photography collections in a high-security underground storage facility to be maintained at minus 20 degrees C (minus 4 degrees F) and 35% RH.  With more than 65 million images, it is one of the world's largest privately held photography collections.  Corbis is a private corporation owned by Bill Gates.

Wilhelm is the recipient of the Photoimaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) “2007 Lifetime Achievement Award” for his work on the preservation of photographs and motion pictures.

Dr. RAY A. WORK III

Dr. Ray A. Work, III is President of Work Associates, Inc. a company  he launched on July 1, 2001 upon his retirement from the DuPont organization. At his retirement Dr. Work was New Business Development Manager, DuPont iTechnologies, DuPont Color Proofing, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. 

Dr. Work received his BS degree in Chemistry from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama in 1966 and PhD in Physical Inorganic Chemistry from Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana (now the University of New Orleans) in 1971. Following a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Hawaii - Manoa, Dr. Work joined DuPont as a research chemist at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington Delaware in 1972.   

At DuPont, he held a wide variety of positions over nearly 29 years. These include research, research management, business management, product development management and market development management. Dr. Work holds seven US patents, has published more than 30 technical papers and is a frequent speaker at conferences, symposia and workshops worldwide on the subject of ink jet inks and ink jet printing in general. 

In 1993 Dr. Work was the recipient of the coveted BIS Strategic Decisions Founder's Award in recognition of the successful development of pigmented black ink jet ink for office printers. BIS Strategic Decisions was a market research and consulting firm covering the fields of digital printing and hard copy consumables. Within DuPont, Dr. Work received two Corporate Marketing Excellence Recognition awards, one in 1993 for work in developing the ink jet print head barrier film business and one in 1996 for leading the team that developed the ink jet inks business for DuPont. 

Work Associates, Inc.(http://www.workassoc.com) provides retained consulting services in digital printing with particular emphasis on ink jet printing technology, applications and markets; advises companies in digital printing and their applications; and brokers products from P. R. China.