WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2008

EIDA AKIHIRO

Mr. Eida Akihiro is a Research Physicist with the Kao Corporation in Wakayama, Japan. Kao is a world-renowned company dedicated to the production of chemical and consumer products, including hair care, skin care, cleaning products and specialty chemicals.

For the toner industry, Kao offers a variety of advanced, cross-linked, polyester type, binder resins

Mr. Akihiro joined the Kao Group in 1996 after being awarded a master’s degree in physics from Hokkaido University.

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.

MS. CAROLYN BURNS

Carolyn Burns is Global Marketing Manager of DuPont Graphics, part of the Nonwovens business unit. She has responsibility for a variety of nonwoven materials such as Tyvek®, for use in printed applications including wristbands, tags and labels, maps and wide format media. She has worked for DuPont for more than twenty-five years, with assignments in manufacturing, quality management, technical service, business development, sales and marketing. She has worked in a variety of business units, including HDPE resins, Polyester Films, Holography and Packaging & Industrial Polymers.

She has been active in numerous trade associations throughout her career, and served on the Board of Directors of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute.

Carolyn has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. She is married with three daughters and lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

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, 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 will also begin publishing a semi-annual Raw Materials Supplier Guide.

For over 20 years, TRS also operated a research laboratory. In 2005, much of the laboratory was acquired by Esprix Technologies (Sarasota, Florida) and will now be used jointly by both companies for development of novel toners and research on new raw materials.

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 has just relocated back to Black Mountain, NC where it operated for much of the ‘90s.

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 both high-tech Imaging Materials Seminars® (launched by DRC in 1984) and numerous corporate meetings, golf outings, 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 the author of more than 60 articles, talks and publications related to imaging materials and processes.  He is editor of the reference text, Handbook of Imaging Materials first published in July 1991 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. The second edition, co-edited with Dr. David Weiss of Eastman Kodak Company, was published in January 2001.

FABIO FLAKSBERG

Fabio Flaksberg is President and founder of LionPrint Brazil, a new factor in the fiercely competitive Brazilian market. Just two years old, LionPrint has already established a leading position in the distribution of toner, OPC drums, parts and accessories for Brazilian rechargers. The company is noted for its creation of a reliable brand based upon sustainable product quality.

LionPrint maintains an advanced laboratory to support its quality control and product development activities which Flaksberg believes is the basis for his firm’s outstanding growth since 2006. To promote LionPrint’s position and carry its expansion forward, Flaksberg co-authored the article, “Brazil: Cartridge Remanufacturing in 2007” which appeared in the March 2008 issue of -Recharge Asia magazine.

Prior to founding LionPrint, Flaksberg worked in the field of investment banking with Bank of America. This followed completion of an 18 month assignment with local telephone carrier VIVO.

Fabio Flaksberg earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV) in 2001. He later studied at the University Pontificia Universidade Catolica (PUC) de São Paulo and was awarded a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) in 2004. The University PUC is home to one of the finest law schools in Brazil.

GRAHAM J. GALLIFORD

In May 1994, Graham Galliford founded Galliford Consulting & Marketing as a techno-commercial consulting business. The particular emphasis of the firm is on toner-based digital imaging in its many forms including a variety of printing and imaging processes. The company operates from a unique facility for R&D that enables pilot-scale production of toner products. It has completed many projects concerning formulation, manufacture, application and marketing of digital printing products.

Since its founding, the firm has helped to create new printing materials and assisted in the design, testing and qualification of raw materials. Galliford Consulting & Marketing has established a client base and working relationship with major companies in North America, Europe and Asia. It has also developed the market for translations of Japanese written market research reports to a worldwide client base that regularly purchases the reports.

Galliford has also authored a study “Chemically Prepared Toner – A Study of Markets and Technologies” which is now in its fifth revision since it was first published in 2001. He is known internationally in the toner field in North America, Europe and Asia.

The activities Galliford Consulting & Marketing undertakes, largely for OEM clients are full range and include: custom formulation and development of all types of toners and developers; toner analysis, R&D; toner raw material evaluation and application analysis; product and market analysis; strategic partnering; toner manufacturing development; toner manufacturing project design.

Galliford became involved in the field of Reprographic Toners in 1974 and was engaged in a variety of roles in the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and North America. His last position with that company was as Executive Vice President, local Director and Chief Executive of Coates Reprographics Inc. in Dallas, Pennsylvania.

Galliford obtained his degree in Applied Physics at North West Kent College of Technology and his Diploma in Management Studies from the Polytechnic of Central London Business School (University of Westminster). He joined the Coates Group of Companies, a leading manufacturer of inks and coatings, including toners and ink jet inks, in 1968 as a technologist. He worked as a chemist for this group of ink manufacturing companies in fields that include offset, letterpress, gravure, flexography, screen printing and electrophotographic toners. He performed some of the early work in Radiation Cured Ink technology and Sublimation Dye Transfer Ink technology for Coates. Later he assumed a variety of roles with Coates before being named Executive Vice President, Coates Reprographics Inc.

In July 2004, Diamond was given an Award of Honor” by the Australasian Cartridge Remanufacturers Association at their Exposition in Brisbane “for Pioneering Achievements in the Imaging Industry.”

Galliford has been a regular speaker at conferences in North America, Europe and Asia on all aspects of the digital printing and toner business from technology to marketing to manufacturing. He has made over 80 presentations to industry gatherings over the last 20 years including Seminars on Digital Printing Technologies and Chemically Prepared Toner Technology and Markets.

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 in July 2001.  At Tiara, Gorka combines his wealth of experience in domestic and international meeting planning with DRC’s Imaging Materials Seminars®.

In 2006, in addition to planning and managing three Tiara seminars and the biennial ISCST (International Society for Coating Science & Technology) Symposium, Terry Gorka served as General Manager for ReChina’s November Forum and Expo in Shanghai. He also worked closely with the Las Vegas and Los Angeles Convention Bureaus in siting meetings and conventions for various industry groups and associations. For all of these events, Gorka acted as chief negotiator with the hotels, Exhibitors, Sponsors, and other parties.

From 1992 to 2001, Gorka was General Manager and Founder of Golf Destinations, a San Diego-based domestic and international golf and travel packaging firm.  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.

Tiara is thus a full-spectrum event management organization covering incentive and award travel, corporate meetings, trade shows and high-technology seminars.

Terry Gorka attended Chapman College in Orange, California, and 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.

Dr. ANDRONIQUE IOANNIDIS

Dr. Anronique (“Nikki”) Ioannidis

Dr. GRAZYNA KMIECIK-LAWRYNOWICZ

Dr. Grazyna Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz is a Principal Scientist for Xerox Corporation in Webster, New York. Her field is Materials & Process Technology where she is responsible for leading activities in chemical toners for color printers and the design of polymeric carrier coatings. Xerox is the world’s largest producer of dry toners with manufacturing plants in the U.S., Canada, England, Continental Europe, and Latin America.

She received her MS degree in chemistry and chemical engineering from Warsaw Technical University in Poland and her PhD in chemistry from Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey) in 1987.

After completing postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto she joined Xerox Research Center of Canada (XRCC) in 1988 as an Industrial Research Fellow. During her years at XRCC she worked on a variety of projects related to chemical toners.  In 1992 she pioneered work on emulsion aggregation (EA) toner for future color xerographic applications.  In 1996 she transferred with EA toner technology to Supplies Development & Manufacturing in Webster, New York where she worked on development of EA toner and start-up of the manufacturing facility for commercial production of EA toners.

Dr. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz has been an invited Speaker at many conferences related to the subject of CPT toners. She has authored 90 publications, including 73 U.S. patents.  At Xerox, she is a recipient of three Eagle Awards for the highest number of patents in the years 1994, 1997 and 1998. She is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Imaging Science (IS&T). In 2004, she was awarded an IS&T Fellowship “For her contributions in the field of chemical toners, particularly the emulsion-aggregation process.”

DR. HARVEY R. LEVENSON

Dr. Harvey Robert Levenson is a Professor and Department Head of Graphic Communication at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. His teaching and research specialties are printing, technology, communication, media, and research methods.

Dr. Levenson holds four degrees in printing and communication. They include a Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh, a M. S. degree in Printing Management from South Dakota State University, a B. S. degree in Printing from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an A. A. S. degree in Graphic Arts and Advertising Technology from New York City College of Technology.

Prior to joining Cal Poly in 1983, Dr. Levenson founded and chaired the Division of Graphics, Design, and Communication at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before which he was Associate Director of Technical Services for the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF), also in Pittsburgh. He is the recipient of many awards and honors for his contributions to graphic arts education and technology.  Over the years, he has actively served on committees and boards of many graphic arts organizations including GATF, the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA), Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF), and the Graphic Arts Literacy Alliance (GALA). Dr. Levenson was also elected to the GATF Society of Fellows.

For his work in education and industry, Dr. Levenson has received the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation Education Council "Award of Excellence"; the U. S. Government Printing Office "Distinguished Service Award"; and he has had an award named after him entitled: the “Technical Association of the Graphic Arts $1,000 Dr. Harvey R. Levenson Student Paper Award." In 2004 he received the “Educator of the Year Award” by the Printing Industries Association of Southern California (PIASC), the TAGA Honors Award for life-long contributions to the graphic arts, and the Gamma Epsilon Tau “Golden Key Award” from New Your City College of Technology.

Dr. Levenson is an active researcher, consultant, expert witness, and speaker on matters related to printing, technology, media, and communication. He has authored many articles and books on these subjects and has consulted for hundreds of printing plants and vendors throughout the world. His latest books are, Understanding Graphic Communication: Selected Readings, Some Ideas About Doing Research in Graphic Communication, and Introduction to Graphic Communication.  Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he presently resides in Atascadero, California.

DR. HOU T. NG

Dr. Hou-T Ng is a Research & Development Manager at Hewlett-Packard Labs (Palo Alto, California). His team is responsible for advanced R&D revolving around the chemistry, materials science, physics and printing processes of next-generation inkjet and liquid electrophotographic printing technologies. HP Labs has a deep history of successful technology transfers and collaborations with the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Hou-T received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2001 where his focus was on submicron soft-lithography, advanced interconnect technology and scanning probe microscopy. He joined HP Labs in 2004 to focus on R&D projects related to digital commercial printing technology.

Prior to joining HP Labs, Dr. Ng was a senior scientist and a project leader of the Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics program at the Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center in California, and was a UARC (University Affiliated Research Center, UC Santa Cruz & Nasa Ames) Fellow. At NASA Ames, he developed an innovative approach to synthesizing one-dimensional nanostructures for important applications in NASA mission critical tasks. He also led his team to demonstrate the first vertical surround-gate and top-gate nano-transistors based on integrated one-dimensional nanostructures. He was awarded the NASA TGIR (Turning Goals Into Reality) Award and Space Act Award in 2002 and 2006 respectively.

Dr. Ng has published more than 30 publications and holds 14 US patents. He is actively engaged with the academia community and serves on the technical committee of the Electronic Materials Conference. He is a member of the IS&T and the Materials Research Society.

VELLIYUR R. SANKARAN

An independent consultant since 2001, Velliyur Sankaran has worked with IBM and Océ printing systems for a total of 25 years. He is currently based in Coconut Creek, Florida.

In the course of his career in the imaging industry, Sankaran has been involved with the development of printer hardware and printer media. He has modified imaging materials to meet the needs of end users, and to comply with environmental regulations. His past positions also focused on toxic issues involving imaging materials, including high speed monochrome printing with toners based upon styrene-acrylic; styrene-butadiene, and polyester resins.

At IBM, from 1981 to 1999, Sankaran worked on printer material development and its integration with high speed printing systems. The activity centered on toner development with styrene-acrylic and polyester toners. After retiring from IBM, he assisted  the Océ organization between 1999 and 2002 by developing polyester toners as well as printer media for digital printing.

Velliyur Sankaran holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Madras, India and a Master's degree in polymer science from the University of Ohio at Akron.

JOHN E. SHANE

John Shane, a Director of InfoTrends, Inc. of Weymouth, Massachusetts has been serving clients in the imaging supplies market since 1988.  He is primarily responsible for subjects related to imaging consumables such as toner, developer, photoreceptors, ink jet inks and cartridges, laser cartridges, thermal transfer ribbons and impact ribbons.

Shane is well known as an authority on all-in-one toner cartridges and on the dynamics of the cartridge remanufacturing industry.  Concurrently, he tracks similar trends in ink jet cartridge refills and compatibles.  Finally, with the growth of ink jet printing in both narrow and wide format applications, Shane has developed expertise related to the growing need for specialty media types for optimum substrate compatibility, image quality and image permanence.

Prior to joining InfoTrends, Shane spent seven years at BIS Strategic Decisions as both an Analyst and as Director of the Hard Copies Supplies Service.  He has also been employed as a Consultant with International Data Corporation (IDC) and as Site Manager of a consumer research center with the US Testing Company.

John Shane holds a BA cum laude in Marketing and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dr. SCOTT M. SILENCE

As a Principal Scientist with the Supplies Delivery Unit of Xerox Corporation in Webster, New York, Dr. Scott Silence is responsible for the development of consumable materials for future high-speed Production Color xerographic engines. Xerox is The Document Company, a global leader in document technologies, products, and services. It offers the imaging industry’s broadest and most innovative array of color and monochrome digital printers.

Prior to joining Xerox in May 1994, Dr. Silence held the post of Staff Scientist at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.

He currently is a named inventor on 53 U.S. patents and has authored 22 journal articles on xerographic and optical materials and characterization methods.

Dr. Silence received both his BS and MS degrees from the University of Chicago in 1986. He later was awarded a  PhD by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.

            He is a Member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Mr. Sankaran has been awarded four patents and has given numerous presentations at IS&T conferences

Dr. BRIAN E. SPRINGETT

After graduating with an MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge in England in 1960, Dr. Brian Springett worked briefly in the semiconductor industry in Southern California developing solar cells for NASA and working on early IC processes before moving on to acquire a PhD in Low Temperature and Solid State Physics from the University of Chicago in 1966. He subsequently held faculty positions at the University of Michigan, the University of Quebec and Oakland University before joining Xerox Corporation in 1974.

He is the author or co-author of more than 60 technical publications and is the holder of 10 US and 2 European patents. He has been a frequent speaker at many conferences associated with the imaging industry.

While with Xerox, Dr. Springett held several positions managing groups of 30 or more people involved in research and development, initially for new Copiers and Duplicators, and subsequently for Black and White and then Color printers, including the Xerox 9000 series machines, lower speed laser printers such as the Xerox 2700, 4197, and N40, and copiers such as the Xerox 1075, 1090, 5090 and the DocuTech, DocuPrint and DocuColor series of B&W and color printers and multi-function presses.

Prior to his founding Fingerpost Advisers as an independent consultancy in June 2001, he retired from Xerox having been Manager of first Photoreceptor and then Materials Strategy and Technology Integration for 11 years within the Supplies Development and Manufacturing Department.