| IAPHC Convention Speaker: Topic:
“Shift”
Going where the consumer
takes us.
An eye opening and frank
approach, on how the shift in time reflects the shift in the
business of communications. This topic will also touch upon
the complexities of change in the communications space that
has truly affected our industry, with a focus on how it
relates to technology, integration and future growth in the
printing industry.
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Gavin Jordan-Smith
Vice President, Commercial Print and Pre-Press
Segments
Worldwide Graphic Communications Industry
Business
Xerox Corporation |
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Gavin Jordan-Smith, vice president,
Commercial Print and Pre-Press Segments, Worldwide Graphic
Communications Industry Business, joined Xerox Corporation
in March 2007. He is responsible for accelerating Xerox’s
strategy to increase the use of digital print technology in
the commercial print and pre-press markets. Jordan-Smith
also is expanding Xerox’s involvement in worldwide industry
association activities and the global Xerox Premier Partners
Program.
Formerly, a director and corporate
officer at Toppan Printing Company America, he is a 15-year
veteran of the graphic communications industry in the U.S.
and U.K. Toppan America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toppan
Printing Co. Ltd., is the largest commercial printing
company in the world. At Toppan America, based in Somerset,
N.J., Jordan-Smith oversaw several vital business functions
including marketing, operations, strategic and business
development, information |
technology and digital communications. He
helped to transition the 100-year-old traditional offset
printing company into a leading provider of digital
communications services. This evolution drove the creation
of several key applications, including full-color variable
information direct mail pieces, books-on-demand and sales
and marketing collaterals – all printed on Xerox iGen3® 110
Digital Production Presses.
Prior to Toppan, Jordan-Smith spent five
years as a director and a systems information specialist
with Wellgate Communications Limited (UK), an international
management and technologies consultancy firm providing
information technology expertise to organizations in the
private and public sectors.
Jordan-Smith earned a Bachelors of
Science degree in IT and a Bachelors degree in Accounting
with International Business Law degree from Mid-Glamorgan
University, Wales, United Kingdom, in 1989. |