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Solutions February 2006
PEOPLE
NEW
HIRES
Bob
Eberly joined the sales staff
at InfoSeal and New Jersey Business
Forms, Englewood, N.J. Eberly,
who has more than 30 years of
experience in the forms industry,
most recently served as northeast
regional sales manager at manufacturer
PrintXcel.
Mitchelle
Hall assumed the e-commerce
and system development and account
implementation position at manufacturer
Ward/Kraft, Ft. Scott, Kan. Hall
previously served as implementation
specialist and national account
manager for print management and
fulfillment. Her new duties include
sales, customer service, account
setup and training, and account
maintenance and development of
MyNetLabels™, MyEcompanyStore™,
MyEsolutions™ and MyXpresslane™.
Mike
Schmitz
was named director of information
services at distributorship American
Solutions for Business, Glenwood,
Minn. He develops and implements
information technology initiatives
that support American's business
operations and strategic objectives.
Schmitz previously served as the
company’s manager of business
systems. He also has worked at
the U. S. Department of Defense;
as an application developer and
technical director at IBM; a business
unit manager and vendor liaison
for a consulting company in Minnesota;
and as a principal for Invincio
Interactive, a web site development
consulting company.
Robert
Young was named president
of Montreal-based Transcontinental’s
U.S. direct marketing operations.
He leads Transcontinental’s
U.S. direct marketing activities
from Warminster, Pa., and will
report directly to Guy Manuel,
president of Transcontinental’s
Marketing Products and Services
Sector. Most recently, Young served
as president, Commercial Envelopes,
for Cenveo Inc., where he was
responsible for 15 envelope manufacturing
locations with annual sales of
approximately $375 million. Prior
to holding that position, he served
as executive vice president, Commercial
Segment at Cenveo. He also has
held positions at Pareto Corporation,
St. Joseph Printing and Quebecor
World.
Tony
Petersen was named regional
sales manager for the western
territories at NELA, Oakdale,
Minn. He previously worked at
Western Lithotech, Lastra and
AGFA. NELA purchased all assets
of Western Lithotech’s bunch/
pending business in January 2005.
Petersen takes over the territory
from Jurgen Gruber, who was promoted
to director of sales.
David
Hill was named CEO and president
of Dainippon Ink & Chemicals
(DIC), the parent company of printing
ink supplier Sun Chemical Corp.
He succeeds Wes Lucas, who will
remain as chairman of the board
of directors. Hill previously
served as chief technology officer
for Allied Signal Corporation’s
chemical and materials businesses
as well as president of their
fibers and specialty chemicals
units.
Richard
Rossbach was recently named
quality and environmental management
systems manager at Pictorial Offset
Corporation, Carlstadt, N.J. He
oversees the company’s ISO
9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 quality
and environmental certifications,
compliance, updating and auditing.
Rossbach also is responsible
for the compliance and SmartWood™
certification to the Forest Stewardship
Council’s (FSC) Chain-of-Custody
program. The FSC supports the
growth of responsible forest management
worldwide. Rossbach previously
served as quality manager of pharmaceutical
packaging at MeadWestvaco’s
health care packaging division.
PROMOTIONS
Jim
Frisch was named partner at
Jerome Group, St. Louis. Frisch
runs the full-service marketing
firm’s Chicago office and
retains his position as vice president
of sales and marketing for the
Midwest. Frisch opened the Chicago
office in 1998—Jerome’s
first outside of its St. Louis
headquarters. The Chicago office
has grown consistently over the
past seven years and has helped
to win and manage such major national
brands as Caremark, Walgreens
and Brunswick. Before joining
Jerome, Frisch served as a sales
representative and an area sales
manager at Wallace Computer Services.
Calvin
G. Butler was named senior
vice president, external affairs,
at RR Donnelley, Chicago. He is
responsible for legislative affairs,
community relations, RR Donnelley’s
Alliance Markets program and supplier
diversity initiatives, and new
consultative sales programs that
address the company’s government
vertical segment. Butler will
establish, implement, and grow
external affairs programs that
align with and support RR Donnelley’s
business strategies. He previously
served as senior director, government
relations.
Bill
Tyson
was named vice president of sales
at Vertis, a marketing services
firm in Baltimore. He leads a
team of direct marketing professionals
with expertise building programs
for the financial and insurance
industry. Prior to joining Vertis,
Tyson served as chief marketing
officer and senior vice president
at AGIA, an affinity insurance
direct marketing, brokerage and
third party administrators in
the United States. He also held
leadership positions in the direct
marketing divisions of JLT Group,
CIGNA and AIG.
RECOGNITION
Michael
O’Hara, PhD, chairman
and CEO of The AB&C Group,
McLean, Va., was honored during
National Capital Philanthropy
Day for exceptional volunteer
fundraising. O’Hara has
served on the board of directors
of four different associations,
including president of the Direct
Marketing Association of Washington,
which sponsored the honor. O’Hara
also served as president of the
DMIA from 1986-1987.
Appreciation:
Jim Russell
Editor’s
note: Former DMIA President Jim
Russell died Aug. 31, 2005. Russell,
who served as DMIA president from
1979-80, founded RBF Inc. in 1964.
The company evolved from a forms
distributorship into a management
services firm. The appreciation
below was submitted by Jim’s
friends and family.
Jim
started RBF with his wife, Phyllis,
out of their home in 1964. In
1973, he built his first facility
at Lansing's Capital City Airport,
and it continues to serve today
as the headquarters for the company’s
five branches. During the 1970s
and early 1980s the facility also
housed Jim’s airplane––until
the space requirements of his
growing business forced him to
move the plane to another facility.
Jim
became president of DMIA in 1979. In
his messages to association members,
he stressed the value of a management
philosophy versus a sales philosophy.
His own company, with its sales
strategy of forms management and
its focus on redesigning forms
to add value, was an example followed
by many association members. RBF
established an independent board
of advisors made up of presidents
of leading companies in the Michigan
area. Continuous improvement was
his modus operandi and the board
served as a catalyst for this.
In 1995 Jim became chairman of
the board of RBF as well as Arbor
Press, a commercial printing company
started with his son Jim Jr.
He
devoted a great deal of time and
effort to his many philanthropic
interests. In 1970, Jim and
Phyllis started The Amy Foundation
as a charitable trust that was
funded by a major portion of the
profits from RBF Inc.
Jim
was a vital man who flew his own
plane until age 73, and he ran
three miles a day until age 75.
He then decided to take up golf,
and enjoyed the challenge that
this new hobby provided. He served
in the U. S. Marine Corps in WWII
and the Korean War. Besides
building a leading company in
the printing industry, he devoted
a major portion of his life to
helping others. Jim was a devout
Christian and a very caring person.
He was a conservative who respected
others’ opinions, even if
they differed from his own. Jim's
business associates will miss
his visionary insightfulness. His
friends and family will miss his
laughter and his love.
