INTERQUEST

Dominique Auzias

Dominique Auzias is Co-founder and President of Groupe Petit Futé. A born entrepreneur and fond of adventure and travel stories since childhood, Dominique Auzias is responsible for development, new products and digital solutions, as well as the international activities of the Petit Futé Group. In the 80s he founded—jointly with a group of friends—Telematics No. 1, a company which developed numerous videotex services for Larousse, Thomson Group, and others. Passionate about wine, he later took over the family winery in the Languedoc region; expanded and developed it, via the creation—with Chinese partners—of a vineyard in the Far East (Shandong region). He is a graduate of HEC (Jouy en Josas and Nancy) and auditor of the IHEDN (Paris).

Founded in 1976 by Dominique Auzias et Jean-Paul Labourdette, les Nouvelles Editions de l'Université - Petit Futé, is one of the leading independent publishers in France with a catalog of 733 titles. Today, Petit Futé offers over 1,200 digital guides available via more than 50 resellers in France and around the world, and is the leading vendor of tourist and practical guides in France and French speaking countries. The company’s latest innovation lets Internet users produce their own customized guides on mypetitfute.com.

Oliver Baar

Oliver Baar is Director Business Development & Marketing Digital Web Presses at KBA Digital & Web Solutions. Hi is responsible for the KBA RotaJET digital inkjet press business on a worldwide basis,to drive growth and transformation from conventional offset printing towards digital printing. As a digital printing evangelist, Mr. Baar has an in-depth background in digital printing – with a focus on publishing, targeted communications and industrial applications.

Prior to KBA, Oliver Baar held market development, marketing and management positions at HP and Fujifilm.

Anne Beech

Anne Beech has worked in publishing for over 40 years, starting as a production and editorial assistant at the science publisher Gordon and Breach, and then moving to Allen Lane before setting up a small independent press, Junction Books, in the 1970s. After a period as an independent editorial adviser, Anne joined Pluto Press when it changed ownership in 1987, and has been with the company ever since. She has been the managing director of the press for some ten years.

Pluto Press, an independent press, was founded in 1969 with the intention of publishing books on key political issues – it remains committed to an avowedly progressive agenda to this day. We aim to publish between 50 and 60 titles a year, and have a backlist of some 500 titles in the fields of anthropology, political economy, political theory and current affairs, which are sold worldwide.

Gilles Biscos

Gilles Biscos, the Founder and President of INTERQUEST, has spent over 25 years in the information processing industry. He has extensive expertise in strategic planning, market research, competitive analysis, and the development of educational and training programs related to digital printing/publishing and document management. Mr. Biscos is the co-author of Digital Printing: The Reference Handbook, published in 1993 and updated in 1998 and 2004. He has spoken at a number of industry conferences and written numerous articles for publication.

Mr. Biscos holds Master of Science degrees in Economics and in Social Psychology.

Benoit Chatelard

Benoit Chatelard is General Manager, Production Printing Solutions at Ricoh. He is now leading the solutions endeavour of Ricoh Production Printing Group in Europe. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh company, promoted from General Manager Asia Pacific in Singapore.

Prior to Ricoh, Benoit Chatelard worked at IBM for 21 years, predominantly in sales roles starting in France. In 1998, he moved to South Africa as Executive Director in charge of the Business Partners, the small and medium businesses market and Direct Marketing. In 2000, while located in Vienna, he took on the role of growing IBM’s business in emerging markets and started managing the IBM Business Partners network for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. From 2002 to 2004, Benoit Chatelard led the IBM Printing Systems Division for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. In 2004, he was named Director of Production Printing Solutions segment, EMEA then named Director of IBM Printing Systems Division, Southwest Europe. With the creation of the Joint Venture between Ricoh and IBM, in 2007, Benoit Chatelard was appointed Vice President, Sales, EMEA, for InfoPrint Solution Company. A graduate engineer in electronics, Benoit Chatelard studied at the EMLYON Business School in France, where he earned his MBA.

Andy Cork

Andy Cork, owner of Printondemand-worldwide, started the business in 1995 offering facilities management to major companies, taking over their non-core business in relation to print.

Andy entered the print industry when he worked as an estimator for the implant International Computers Ltd (now Fujitsu) in the late 80’s where he was sponsored to study printing technology at Watford College and went on to achieve a masters in world class manufacturing. Drawing experience from the production models within the car industries of Japan and the USA he went on to implement the ‘just in time’ techniques into the printing industry.

Printondemand-worldwide is now a global player within the book industry, offering a complete solution for the production life cycle of a book; from one copy upwards. He has developed the company’s efficiency by ever minimising manual intervention through the development of IT systems and programs; creating and implementing the very latest in technology driven workflows.

Enrique Diaz

Enrique Díaz is Co-owner of Liber Digital, which was launched in 2014. He has also been collaborating with Gomez Aparicio in the design and implementation of continuous improvement projects since 2010. Enrique is an industrial engineer, he holds a Master in Industrial Organization and a degree in Economics, and he is certified Lean Practitioner by the Lean Global Network.

Liber Digital—a Gomez Aparicio company dedicated to digital book printing and binding— is a leader in the Spanish digital book printing market. www.liberdigitalimpresion.com

Richard Fidczuk

Richard Fidczuk has been Production Director at SAGE Publications in London since 1998, overseeing all aspects of book and journal production for SAGE’s UK publishing operations. He has been in production for over 30 years, after graduating with a degree in Physics and Astrophysics from Leicester University. He has previously worked for IOP Publishing, Prentice-Hall, and Blackwell Publishers, and has extensive experience of both prepress and print production, and a wide knowledge of digital publishing technologies.

Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 950 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Its growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video.

Reynold Frech

Reinhold Frech is Director European Sales & Marketing, Commercial Printing Group at Canon Europe. He is responsible for the Commercial Printing business in the 18 European countries, where Canon is represented with a National Sales Organisation. His mission is to drive the Commercial Printing business to support the migration from monochrome to colour in the traditional markets as well as Digital Printing Solutions into the growth segments in the Graphic Arts.

Prior to Canon, Reinhold Frech, who has been in the Digital Printing industry for more than 30 years, held management positions in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Partner, Channel and Solutions Business, with national, European and international responsibilities at Xerox, Heidelberg and Kodak.

Luis Hedo

Luis Hedo is the third generation of the Gomez Aparicio family, who founded the company in 1958 as a bookbinding workshop. In 2005 he joined the company’s operations department to lead process improvement projects. He has been CEO of the Gomez Aparicio Graphic Group for six years, and he is also the CEO of Liber Digital, a company that he co-founded in 2014, jointly with Enrique Diaz and Jose Antonio Mora. Luis is an industrial engineer, and he holds a Master in Industrial Organization.

Gomez Aparicio Graphic Group, a Spanish company based in Madrid, has implemented the most modern technologies—covering all the manufacturing processes from offset printing to book binding (soft and hard cover). Liber Digital is part of Gomez Aparicio Graphic Group. www.gomezaparicio.es

Jane Hyne

Jane Hyne has been the Production Manager for the National Gallery Company for nearly 15 years. The Production Department is responsible for all pre-press and production of all self-developed materials that are sold in the Gallery Shops ranging from Exhibition Catalogues to retail Packaging while also advising and working with many licencees who produce associated materials using Gallery images such as Jigsaws, cushions, tote bags etc.

Prior to joining the National Gallery Company, Jane was Production Director at Collins & Brown after gaining a wide range of experience at various leading publishing houses.

Arjen Jansen

Arjen Jansen is the Production Director of Collins Learning, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. Arjen started his career in academic publishing in the mid 90s, before moving to education, then to trade, only to end up in education again. This broad experience has given him a great understanding of the demands of the various markets, and their constraints.

Collins Learning publish education and language titles, for the UK and internationally, covering a wide range of products, from dictionaries to school text books. Having a long back list makes effective stock management a key to success. The shift to electronic publishing and an increased focus on cash flow also means print runs are coming down.

Michelle Jones

Michelle Jones is Production Manager at IWA Publishing. She has over a decade of experience in STM Publishing. As Production Manager, Michelle has responsibility for the Production of the Book and Journal portfolios from traditional litho printing through to POD and online.

As a leading supplier of water, wastewater and environmental publications, in both print and online format, IWA Publishing is committed to excellence in delivery of information and continues to invest in innovation and development of services to encourage usage of its publications worldwide.

Emile Kranendonk

Emile Kranendonk has been working for Brill since 2011. After finishing his BBA in Supply Chain Management, he started working as a logistical specialist at Brill, where in 2014 he became an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional. Currently he is working as the Team Leader for the Production and Logistics team and is responsible for the global print and logistical services.

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston and a representative office in Singapore, Brill today publishes 243 journals and around 1000 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form.

Paul Major

Paul Major has over 20 years experience in the book industry ranging from retail management, through wholesale and now into publishing. Previously Paul was the Stock Planning Director for the Academic division within Oxford University Press where he was responsible for trans-Atlantic and India stock management, POD and Publications management; he now holds the role of Global Senior Procurement Manager responsible for Paper, Print & Bind and Content Creation.

In this recently created role Paul is responsible for the global print manufacturing and typesetter relationships within a global procurement function. Prior to OUP Paul was with Blackwell’s Retail, The Stationery Office and AMS UK Books (now Baker & Taylor).

Frédéric Mériot

Frédéric Mériot has been involved in the book industry for over 17 years, with strong experience in both publishing and printing. As Director of Corporate Development for Hachette Livre (1999-2007) he conducted Hachette’s international expansion - notably in the UK and the USA. He then moved to printing as CEO of the French division of CPI Group, where he began restructuring operations and initiated inkjet book printing in Europe (2007-2010). Back in publishing at Editis until 2014, he engineered and conducted the supply-chain transformation of the second largest French publisher.

For the last two years, he has been the CEO of Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), the famed leading publisher of social sciences and philosophy in France, that he is conducting with an agenda of transformation and innovation.

Daniele Och

Daniele Och has been Production Director at Zed Books since 2007, responsible for the manufacture worldwide of all Zed’s print and e-books, both front and backlist. He has worked in academic and professional publishing for most of the past two decades, both in the UK and abroad.

Zed Books, founded in 1976, publishes academic and trade books on politics, economics, development studies, environment, gender and sexualities for an international market.

Ivo Odak

Ivo Odak is Managing Director Sales and Marketing at Kösel GmbH. Prior to joining the company Kösel in 2012, he was Managing Director of Rösler Druck (Germany). Mr. Odak holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurial Management.

Kösel GmbH is one of the most innovative book printers in Germany; the company won the Print & Media Awards, as book printer, every year from 2010 to 2015. It also won several awards in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Gary Peeling

Gary Peeling is CEO of Precision Printing in the UK and the online printer WhereTheTradeBuys, Global Chairman of Dscoop the HP Indigo user group and Co-Founder of Oneflow Systems providing cloud based workflow solutions for the “Mass Customisation” print on demand market, 30 years experience in the industry with a focus on innovation, automation, collaboration and aligning printing with its ever changing market, opportunities and customers.

Danielle Riendeau

Danielle Riendeau is Vice-President of Sales and Business Development at Marquis. She has a solid background in management and sales force leadership, with a particular focus in increasing customer satisfaction. During the past several years, her experience at Marquis has allowed her to gain great expertise in managing graphic and print projects.

Established in Quebec in 1937, Marquis is one of the largest book printers in North America. It offers the best solutions for content owners in the publishing and communications industry in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Marquis has earned its leadership position by offering one-stop shopping for file management, graphic design and printing (for short or long runs of 1 to 600,000 copies, monochrome or color books).

David Taylor

David Taylor was named Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group, and Group Managing Director, Lightning Source UK in February 2010. Mr. Taylor joined Lightning Source UK in June 2003 as Business Development Director and was named Managing Director in December 2003. In June 2006, he served in the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Lightning Source Inc. In June 2008, he took on the additional role of President, Lightning Source Inc.

Mr. Taylor has 35 years of experience in the UK and international book trades in a wide range of senior management positions including online bookselling, retail bookselling and library supply for both books and journals. He is a former Director of Blackwell’s international library supply business. He served on the Booksellers’ Association of the UK and Ireland’s Council for several years and is a former Chairman of the College and University Bookseller’s Group and the Internet Bookseller’s Group, the latter of which he founded. He is a regular speaker at book trade conferences and has published a number of articles on the impact that new technologies are having on the book trade supply chain. Mr. Taylor has a bachelor and a master degree in English literature from the University of Reading, England. He has also completed a Diploma in Management Studies and an MBA.

Peter Paul van Bekkum

Peter Paul van Bekkum is the Founder and CEO of both Mybestseller, a self-publishing market leader, and Sweek. Besides having its own brands, Mybestseller operates over 30 publishing brands with third parties in the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Turkey and France with its unique white label proposition. Sweek, which will be launched in June 2016, is a free mobile writing and reading platform with a strong connection to traditional publishers. Prior to starting the two companies, Peter Paul was among other things, Managing Director of an ICT company (200 fte) and regional daily newspapers and Program Director of several reorganizations.

Peter Paul holds a degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering from the University of Technology Eindhoven and lives in Rotterdam with his wife and two daughters.

Claire Watts

Claire Watts is currently Production Director at Oldcastle Books/No Exit Press, an independent Publisher based in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. No Exit specialises in Crime Fiction and Oldcastle also publish Kamera Books on film, and Pocket Essentials guides. Previously with Mainstream Publishing in Edinburgh, another independent, Claire's career started with the Brookes Publishing course and then led to WH Allen and Pan books. Digital print is now a very important aspect of her work.