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The 2010 Lyra Commercial Ink Jet Supplies Seminar will examine the size, scope, evolution, and future potential of the commercial ink jet printer supplies market. Attendees will receive unique and timely insight into overall market direction, ink and media supplies trends, application developments, and new technologies. This is the ideal event for OEM and supplies executives, product marketing directors and development leaders, product sales and marketing teams, strategic business development directors, market intelligence specialists, and technology and engineering managers who are interested in identifying market growth opportunities and meeting new industry connections.

Lyra Research, the digital imaging authority (www.lyra.com), collaborates with imaging industry decision makers worldwide, enabling clients to strengthen their market position and achieve profitable growth. Lyra’s expert analysts and editors help clients devise and implement creative solutions to business challenges, arming them with competitive intelligence, strategic and tactical advice, news and analysis, and market forecasts.

Wednesday 27th October, 2010

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.            Registration

9:00 a.m.                        Opening session

COMMERCIAL INK JET: TOP TRENDS AND HOT APPLICATIONS IN THE CONTINUOUS FEED MARKET
Peter Mayhew, Director, Lyra Research Europe

• Market forecast: trends in hardware, ink, and media
• Who's doing what?  Profiles of top 5 vendors and their views on:
- Sales
- Maintenance
- Consulting services
- Software
• Continuous feed printing applications
- Transaction
- Book
- Newspaper
- Health care

Peter Mayhew, Director, Lyra Research Europe

Mr. Mayhew has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the photographic and digital imaging segments of the graphic-arts industry, with industry experience in wide-format and desktop hardware, supplies, and software.

Before joining Lyra as Senior European Analyst, Mr. Mayhew was most recently the head of commercial marketing for the worldwide digital imaging group at Ilford Imaging in the United Kingdom. He also worked as a marketing director for Ilford Imaging in the United States, where he played a key role in the start-up of the digital imaging business for Ilford Imaging. Mr. Mayhew has also established a photographic laboratory, an industrial photographic studio, and an exhibition display business.

Erwin Busselot, Marketing Director, Digital Printing, Eastman Kodak

A native of Belgium, Erwin is fluent in 5 languages and holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from Group T, Louvain, as well as a B-t-B Sales & Marketing, certificate from EHSAL/INSTIMA, Belgium.  

He started his career in the Graphic Arts in 1988 at Agfa as a product specialist in the marketing department of the Business Imaging Systems group and was part of the Desktop Publishing revolution that was ongoing.  

During his career he acquired a vast experience in sales and marketing step by step with different players in the Graphic Arts industry as well as few other High-Tech industries:

- Senior Product Manager and European Marketing Manager with Scitex Europe
- European Marketing Manager with Tecnomatix Europe
- European Marketing Director with HP Indigo EMEA
- Worldwide Product Manager Display Products with BarcoView
- Worldwide PR manager with Agfa Graphics  

Over the years Erwin was also a keynote speaker at many Graphic Arts industry events: ScitexWorld, Digital Printing Users Forum, the Print-On-Demand Awards, Digital Print Forum, etc … 

In 2008 just before Drupa Erwin joined Kodak GCG EAMER as the new Marketing Director for Digital Printing Systems. Today he’s responsible for the Kodak Prosper Press go to market activities in Europe.

• Why should paper be part of the decision making process?
• What is the difference between a coated and an uncoated paper, and what does this mean for my printer and my business?
• Will the paper type really help my business potential?
- Media for applications
• A note about the environment
• An eye on the future

Nevelle Bower, Area Sales Manager, Digital Imaging, Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Bielefeld GmbH

Nevelle Bower has been in the paper industry for over 24 years. His first area of concentration was the photographic paper market. He entered into the ink jet industry in 1995. He has assumed many different roles within the industry including technical services, product management, and sales management and business development. This experience has provided Mr. Bower with a strong understanding of the forces—technology, manufacturing, and applications—driving the ink jet and media markets.

Charles LeCompte, President, Lyra Research

Charles LeCompte, president of Lyra Research, is Lyra’s chief spokesperson and a frequent consultant to leading firms in the imaging industry. Mr. LeCompte founded Lyra Research in 1991 and is the publisher of Lyra’s industry-leading newsletters, The Hard Copy Observer and The Hard Copy Supplies Journal.

He served as managing editor of The Hard Copy Observer from 1991 through 2000. Mr. LeCompte is a respected strategic analyst, widely known for forecasting and modeling key industry trends. He has been a journalist, analyst, researcher, publisher, and commentator on high-technology consumer and business products, services, and markets since 1985.