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GEORGE D. ITTNER George D. Ittner was chairman and chief executive officer of Newport News, Inc., a leading direct marketer of moderately priced women's fashions and home décor. Newport News is a wholly owned subsidiary of Spiegel, Inc. (The Spiegel Group). Under Ittner's leadership, Newport News achieved significant growth, expanding from a direct marketing vehicle into a household brand with an industry recognized e-commerce presence.
A merchandising and retail veteran, Ittner was with Newport News for nearly two decades, having held the positions of vice president of marketing and advertising, general manager, and executive vice president before being appointed to president in 1992 and to chief executive officer in 1997. In 2002, he added chairman to his chief executive officer title. Ittner was a member of the board of directors of The Spiegel Group.
He held numerous management positions at Avon Products, Inc., Newport News' former parent company from 1972 to 1983, where he was primarily involved in international marketing. Ittner started his career at Monsanto Company in sales. Ittner is a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Direct Marketing Association.
A graduate of the University of Missouri and the American School of International Management, Ittner served in the U.S. Air Force and resides in Darien, CT.
DOUG ROWAN Since July 1997, Doug Rowan has served as President and CEO of Imaging Solutions Corporation, a Kirkland, Washington-based consulting company established to create value from digital content assets through technology, copyright and creative marketing approaches. The current focus is on digital photography including the use of metadata to help users organize and find photos.
From August 1998 until February 2002, Doug also served as Founder and CEO of Impli, Inc., a company installing flat panel computer screens in checkout lanes at supermarkets to entertain and advertise to shoppers waiting to checkout. Impli's implementation and technology has been very favorably received by shoppers, advertisers and by supermarket chain management. During 1998 and 1999, Doug also worked with a group to prepare "A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress" which was published in 2000.
Prior to this, Doug was recruited by Bill Gates and served as President and CEO of Corbis Corporation from 1994 to 1997. At Corbis, Doug oversaw the acquisition of the Bettmann Archive, established the Corbis brand and migrated the Corbis business from off-line licensing and CD-ROMs to the current Corbis online licensing business. He also led Corbis to build the world's largest and most comprehensive digital library.
From 1991 to 1993, Doug served as President of another image content and software pioneer, AXS Optical Technology Resource of Berkeley, California. AXS developed and sold software to manage photographs for the top 25 newspapers in the U.S., signing exclusive content agreements with organizations such as the Brooklyn and Frick Museums, among others. AXS was an early leader in metadata with newspapers and others.
Doug's previous experience includes serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager for AMPEX of Redwood City, California, where he managed a profitable organization of 700 employees from 1988 to 1990; Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Service for MASSCOMP of Westford, Massachusetts from 1984 to 1988; and Director of Quality, Manager of Large Systems, Product Marketing, and various other positions in sales, marketing and management for IBM from 1962 to 1984. Doug received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Cornell University. He serves on the Boards of several companies.
BARNETT SILVER Earlier, Mr. Silver worked as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated in New York where he was involved in a variety of capital raising activities for corporate clients. His experience includes IPO's, public and private debt offerings, and M&A transactions.
From 1994 to 1996 Mr. Silver worked in the Investment Banking Group of LaSalle Partners.
He holds an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of Business and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.
BRIAN TURNER Brian Turner is a senior associate with Point B Solutions Group, a Seattle-based management consulting firm. Prior to joining Point B Solutions Group, Mr. Turner was a senior manager with Accenture specializing in managing large technology projects. During his tenure, Mr. Turner also helped Accenture identify new and evaluate public-private business ventures for higher education, public education (K-12), and election management. Mr. Turner holds an M.P.A. from the University of Texas/Austin and a B.S. from Syracuse University.
MIKKEL AALAND Mikkel Aaland is a photographer, writer, and author of eight books including Shooting Digital (Sybex 2003) Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions (Sybex, 2002), Photoshop for the Web (O'Reilly, 2000), Digital Photography (Random House, 1992), and Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden, 1996).
Aaland's documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Outside, Digital Creativity, American Photo, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as several European publications. Aaland is also co-founder ofTor Productions, a multimedia and web production company founded in 1989 and based in San Francisco.
Aaland has led public workshops on the effective use of digital images and graphics in new media at institutions and conferences such as the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Drexel University; Photo Expo in New York City; and CNET's builder.com. He has held private consultations with new media companies such as Corbis, Washington Post.com, and Newsweek Interactive. He is also a frequent guest on TechTV.
During the past 25 years, Terry Tevis has led a number of printing and Internet companies within the Graphic Arts industry. As a CEO, Mr. Tevis led an LBO, American Signature, from 1985-1992 prior to its sale to Quebecor.
He then became a Group President for 6 years at RR Donnelley before leading a Kohlberg sponsored roll-up, Printing Arts America. He returned to RRD in 2000 to create and launch a RRD ASP to compete with Noosh and others.
Today, as EXP for American Color, he is leading the Premedia company into new markets and assisting in the launch of its own web based ASP, Color Space.
HELENE DELILLO
She is considered a visionary in the digital imaging world and is sought after by many of the manufacturers to consult on new product development in the digital photography/imaging industry. Digital Imaging Magazine just hired her as the Creative & Editorial director to redesign the "look & feel" and manage the content. As a keynote presenter and internationally acclaimed speaker, she has presented for ASMP, APNY, COMDEX, MacWorld Paris, MacWorld Tokyo, Photo Plus Expo, Photoshop World, PMA, PPA, Seybold Seminars, ThunderLizard Photoshop Conference, and other venues.
Additionally, one of her fortes (and passions) is the ability to communicate digital imaging technologies from her professional creative experience. Her teaching experience includes The International Center of Photography, The School of Visual Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Parsons Schools of Design.
Sonny Nardulli has been an executive with Black Dot since 1966 and President and COO of Black Dot Group since 1992. Under his leadership, the company has become the nation's largest fully integrated strategic/creative through pre-media services provider focusing on the retail, book, catalog and publication markets.
Recognized industry-wide as a visionary thought leader and astute executive, Nardulli is the impetus behind Black Dot's evolution to a full-circle, solutions-based steward of branded visual communications. From its beginnings in 1963 as a composition and pre-press business with revenues under $1 million and one location in Crystal Lake, IL, Nardulli has been instrumental in growing Black Dot Group both internally and through acquisition to a national powerhouse with multiple locations and revenues in fiscal 2002 of over $ 146 million.
To realize his vision of Black Dot as a full-circle solutions provider, Nardulli moved Black Dot's service offering upstream in the early 1990s, acquiring agency-quality creative businesses, world-class photography studios and a company that develops educational and textbook creative and editorial. Two business units were created to handle total creative outsourcing for large, national retail clients. Another Black Dot company provides creative services directed to ethnic and multicultural audiences.
An additional hallmark of Nardulli's leadership is that company growth always anticipates customer needs, often via leading-edge technology and process-improvement innovations. Nardulli has invested in the largest IT and technical solutions unit in the industry and was an early adopter of web-based solutions for his clients.
Such constantly evolving and improving services cement Black Dot's leadership position within its several key market segments and with its base of clients, which includes national retailers, major consumer and educational book publishers, and Fortune 500 brand marketers.
Nardulli's record of innovation and success resulted in the 1998 acquisition of Black Dot Group by Applied Graphics Technologies. Today, Black Dot Group includes the following five companies: Ambrosi, Alturas, Meridian, PP/FA and PreMediaONE. All are leaders in their respective fields and--together--represent the full-circle approach to brand communication solutions first envisioned by Nardulli over a decade ago.
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