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sp EAKE r B Io Gr A p H I Es DAvID DrIMEr is the associate publisher of the Forward, a nationally-distributed, 110-year old weekly newspaper. In late 2006, he managed the redesign of the legendary Jewish publication’s static Web site as a daily news portal. Within one year, the site garnered awards in five prestigious domestic and international Web competitions. Among the accolades received by TheJewishDailyForward. Com was a “best of industry” designation from the Web Marketing Awards (WMA). Previous years’ winners in the newspaper category include household names like The NY Times, Variety and The Washington Post. For a small, niche publication operating on shoestring budgets with a skeletal staff, this was unprecedented industry recognition. Judges singled out the site for its “excellent balance of content and functionality.” that include supervision, scheduling, operations management, programming, R&D, sales support and consulting. His involvement with alpha and beta testing of new technologies in the early 90s led to the development of a print-on-demand process that currently delivers as many as 17,000 unique one-off books each day. at NewBay Media and is responsible for growing NewBay’s online products and extending the company’s reach through new online offerings. Prior to joining NewBay, Ferrick was National Sales Director for ITtoolbox, an online community for IT professionals, where he developed a number of innovative online business initiatives utilizing user-generated content. Before ITtoolbox, he held sales-management positions at CRM Media, Time Inc. and TVSM. JoE FErrICK is the VP of Web Development MICHAEl DuB is the Director of Audience Development for Time Inc. Interactive’s Digital Media Group. He is responsible for increasing traffic to the Time Inc. magazine Web sites (e.g., People, Sports Illustrated, Time, InStyle) through strategic content distribution deals, SEO and SEM, and use of tools and applications such as e-mail, video and RSS feeds. In addition, his team establishes appropriate analytics, metrics and tracking of Web traffic to determine audience behavior and segmentation. Previously, he worked in various marketing and business development capacities and was the Director of Marketing at MTV Networks. business development, for Cadmus Professional Communications, and has experience in book, commercial, magazine, catalog and P-O-D printing. His responsibilities and duties have included managing multiple shift composition operations, sales management for multiple plant locations, budgets, profitability, and purchasing operations and negotiations of print and composition service contracts. Dunkiel also serves on the executive board of the Bookbinders’ Guild of New York, presently is the Treasurer and was co-chair of the Guild’s program committee, of which he is still an active member. BIll FINK is a 17-year veteran of direct marketing. Since 2002, he has been at Source Interlink (formerly Primedia), where he serves as Director of Database Marketing. Prior to that he was Advertising Director at Columbia House. Consulting, specializes in periodical production, manufacturing and distribution. His company’s main services are representing catalog, book, magazine, newspaper and directory publishers in vendor negotiations, paper procurement, workflow and personnel reviews, and designing cost-management software. He is also a columnist for Publishing Executive magazine. Since 1985, Frye has designed cost-management systems for such companies as Harvard Business Journal, Jon Deere, Penthouse, Omni, Resort Condominiums International, Parenting, Sunset, Walt Disney, Science, Discover, Modern Maturity and TV Guide. STEvE FrYE, president of Frye Publication MArv DuNKIEl currently serves as director, JoHN D. GAllIGAN is President and Founder of Bradford & MICHAEl EDSoN is the content expert for educational pub- lishing at Really Strategies. As practice director for educational publishing, he has helped John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, The Princeton Review, and others with editorial, design, production and other product-development technologies, electronic product-development strategies, workflow reengineering, print manufacturing, and overall content management initiatives. He is experienced in publishing-system selection and savvy with price negotiations for corporate adoptions of those systems. Bigelow—a leading supplier of elementary, high school and college textbooks. Bradford‘s mission is to provide educational publishers with an environmentally responsible supply chain solution through the use of innovative and integrated technology and product line focus. Bradford & Bigelow is the first book printer in North America to utilize UV inks and drying technology on its Timson 48-page Zero Make Ready Presses to eliminate all VOC emissions and reduce natural gas consumption. vICKI GArDNEr is the Director of Information Technology at JEFFrEY EISENBErG is the co-author of the No. 1 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and BusinessWeek best-sellers: “Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?” and “Call to Action.” Eisenberg is the co-founder & CEO of Future Now Inc., a New York City marketing firm specializing in Persuasion Architecture™. The practice includes design and optimization of persuasive systems to increase client conversion rates online. Eisenberg is also CEO of Persuasion Architecture Inc., a licensing and training company. Future Now has worked with such companies such as: NBC Universal Orlando, GE, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, HP, CBS and many others. SpecComm International, a b-to-b publishing company located in Raleigh, N.C. Gardner’s career in IT began in 1984. While employed as a teacher’s aide, she was the only person in the school who could successfully load the spelling software onto the TRS80 in Mrs. Riley’s fifth grade classroom. Gardner is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina. ElIzABETH GrAHAM is Head of Production for Haymarket Media rANDY EPKES has been with Midland Information Resources for 25 years and brings more than 27 years of lithographic and digital print industry experience to his current role as the Director of MIR Solutions. He has been involved in all aspects of operations | 2 | Inc.’s U.S.-based operations. She oversees a production team which manages and coordinates 22 b-to-b titles which target medical and marketing professionals. The department works with all internal teams, edit, sales and art, as well as coordinating with the printers, managing paper supplies for each title and monitoring USPS specifications. Graham began with Haymarket in 2004 as Production Manager for several medical titles and in 2006 she was promoted to her current role running the department, reporting directly to the VP of Manufacturing.

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Publishing Business Conference & Expo Daily Highlights Welcome Letter Show Contacts Sponsors Supporting Organizations Conference Floor Plan Conference At-A-Glance Monday Conference Program IDEAlliance’s Virtual Proofing Summit Tuesday Conference Program Digital Magazine Symposium INTERQUEST’s Digital Book Printing Forum Wednesday Conference Program Exhibitor Quick List (Alphabetically) Exhibitor Quick List (By Booth #) Exhibitor Floor Plan Exhibitor Profiles Speakers’ Biographies Save the Date for 2009 Exhibitor Products & Services

2008 Show Guide - Publishing Business Conference & Expo

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