Founder and President - William Manos

Mr. Manos' most significant North American experience was his role as Vice-President and Business Unit Director for Océ Wide Format Printing Systems (WFPS) in Canada. Mr. Manos had the responsibility of establishing and developing the Océ organization to address the engineering market in one of Océ's newest, and fastest growing operating companies. Upon his departure, Océ Canada was the eight largest in terms of revenue and the third most profitable Océ WFPS operation in the world.
Prior to being assigned to Canada, Mr. Manos was Vice President of Marketing for Océ-USA, based in Chicago. Previous assignments for Océ included the International Director of Marketing based in Paris, France and the National Sales Manager based in Mountain View, California.
Upon his return to France and the founding of EURAM, Mr. Manos held Vice-President positions with Xerox and KIP, both based in Paris.
Mr. Manos has over 20 years experience in sales and marketing, with an engineering background. His experience includes the development of graphic simulation software for NASA used in the space shuttle program and four years of teaching mathematics and computer science. Bill is 51 years old, speaks French and has served on the Board of Directors of the French Chamber of Commerce in Toronto and is the founding coordinator for the Entrepreneur section of InterFrench in Paris.

Product Management and Marketing - Claude Rutyna

Mr. Rutyna has an extensive background in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management in the wide format document management market, both technical and graphic arts. Mr. Rutyna started his high-tech career as sales engineer with NCR and Datagraphix (a Lockeed Company) and later moved to Xerox France where he organized the transition of the sales team from Versatec to Xerox Engineering Systems.
As a key member of the executive French management team, Mr. Rutyna was responsible for sales, sales support, XEDMS and marketing activities. He was also in charge of sales and marketing in Spain and had an expatriate assignment as Marketing Manager for XES Canada. Mr. Rutyna has in-depth knowledge of the wide format market. Mr. Rutyna is 50 years old, graduated from the Langues Orientales Institute, has a master degree in Russian and fluently speaks French, English, Spanish, Polish and Russian.

Commercial Sales Development - Joël Boulesteix

Mr. Boulesteix's most significant experience was as Océ France's Business Unit Manager for Wide Format Printing Systems (WFPS). Mr. Boulesteix had the responsibility to reorganize the Sales, Marketing and Services teams in order to make WFPS profitable in 2002. Océ France surpassed this goal in a difficult economical climate and was the third most profitable operation at the end of 2002.
Prior to Océ France, Mr. Boulesteix was Marketing Director and Service Director for Océ Graphics. Before that period he spent nine years in the semiconductor sector as an international sales manager in Western Europe and Scandanavia. Mr. Boulesteix started his high-technology career with Bull, is 53 years old, with an engineering degree from ENSEA Paris and a masters from IAE Paris.

Commercial Sales Development - Pierre David

Mr. David has an extensive background in Reprographics. His most significant experience was at Océ France, first as Sales Representative in the office copier division, then as a Sales manager for 9 years. This experience was followed by a Reprographics Manager position. After leaving Océ, Mr. David held several positions as a consultant to the Reprographics industry.

Commercial Sales Development - Bernd H. Blank

Mr. Blank posses over 12 twelve years experience in sales and marketing of hardware and software solutions in the field of wide format document management systems with Xerox Engineering Systems. Before his leave in 2002, he was four years Marketing Manager for the Central European Region (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). ln this position he was in charge of any kind of marketing activities like product marketing, marketing communication, market research, sales support, sales training and so forth.
ln several sales positions he was responsible for the development of selected key accounts and the area business both direct and through partners (Dealers, VAR, OEM) and achieved excellent results.
Prior to this Mr. Blank was Consultant for R&D on behalf of the German Ministry of Research and Development and managed successfully Engineering Projects that resulted in new practicable products and methods.
His career started with Philipp Holzmann in Frankfurt where he planned infrastructure projects and had assignments in Saudi-Arabia and Nigeria.

He is 54 years old, has master degrees in Engineering and Economics and speaks German and English fluently.

 

Software Development and Support - Torsten Engelke

Mr. Engelke has over 15 years experience as an expert in Information Technology. His specific expertise is in software development, plotting and document management systems, data formats, connectivity and networks. Mr. Engelke was an analyst for Xerox Engineering Systems GmbH for 13 years. He also was the webmaster and trainer for all internal and external support engineers and sales professionals for Xerox's range of engineering solutions.

Mr. Engelke attended the Institute of Telecommunications at Universty Hannover / Germany, is 43 years old, has a master degree in electrical engineering and speaks German and English.