June 13-15, 2023
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Graduate of the University of Southern California. Started as a sample maker at Bay Cities while attending college. Became a Salesperson and rose to the President’s position in 1995. Became CEO shortly thereafter and named Chairman in 2002. Served as Chairman of the Association of Independent Corrugated Convertors in 2014/2015. Serves as Board of Director member of the AICC, International Corrugated Packaging Foundation, and Fiber Box Association. Advisory Board member of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo CA. Member of Vistage International.
In 1935, Stan Avery invented the world’s first self-adhesive label - creating a new technology and a new industry. Today, Avery Dennison is a $6.6 billion global supplier of labeling and packaging materials.
Paul has enjoyed 22 years with Avery Dennison where he has held increasingly responsible roles in research and development, custom product solutions, and most recently, business development. He has a background in digital print technologies that include HP Indigo, dry toner technologies and his current focus of water based inkjet platforms. He works closely with digital printer OEMs and label converters to uncover product gaps, and with the Avery Dennison digital team to fill them. Paul likes to spend his free time relaxing with photography, kayaking and fishing.
Started in the BOPP films industry, working into several different areas: shrink sleeve labels, working into flexible packaging converting, and rounding out my knowledge and experience with various stops at various suppliers.
Passionate about sharing my knowledge and learning with others who are looking to achieve their packaging goals and a sustainable future. UPM is the perfect company for that goal.
Ryan joined ePac in November 2020 and has spent 25 years on the software and services side of the digital printing industry bringing innovative solutions to market and to the customers and communities we serve. At ePac, Ryan is responsible for the Connected Packaging portfolio, International Marketing, targeted growth segments, and other solutions that make ePac the leading technology company in the digital, flexible packaging market.
Ryan is a software engineer by education and began his career at IBM’s Networking Hardware Division in RTP, NC. He then spent 11 years at Rochester Software Associates, Inc. before driving the global portfolio of solutions and services in Ricoh’s Commercial and Industrial printing business group from 2006-2020.
Ryan lives in Rochester, NY with his wife Kacey and 2 children, Sean and Shannon.
20+ years of CPG, Creative Agency and Client-Side Experience
Neil Cook is the Segment Marketing Manager for Packaging in Fujifilm's Ink Solutions Group. With 15 years’ experience in the print and packaging industries, he is dedicated to partnering with customers to maximise their success with inkjet. He works with OEMs, converters, brands and ink formulators globally to understand the challenges they face in the digitisation of print processes, enabling Fujifilm to deliver the right ink and dispersion products to achieve the best performance in inkjet, and deliver value throughout the supply chain.
Avery Dennison is a materials science company that manufactures a wide variety of labeling and functional packaging materials. Innovation and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do. We offer the largest selection of sustainable labeling materials to help our customers and brands meet their sustainability goals. Avery Dennison is also the largest manufacturer of RFID tags in the world. We combine our decades of leadership and experience in the labeling industry with our passion for digital technology to deliver the most innovative labeling solutions across the globe.
We operate in over 50 countries with over 200 locations and employ more than 36,000 people worldwide. Our sales in 2022 were $9.0B.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/avery-dennison-label-and-packaging-materials/
EFI™ is a global technology company, based in Silicon Valley, and is leading the worldwide transformation from analogue to digital imaging. We are passionate about fuelling customer success with products that increase competitiveness and boost productivity. To do that, we develop breakthrough technologies for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, and personalised documents, with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and a comprehensive business and production workflow suite that transforms and streamlines the entire production process. (www.efi.com)
We provide corrugated packaging industry an ecosystem of solutions that include the most advanced single-pass inkjet printer for corrugated as well as EFI Corrugated Packaging Suite, the industry’s only end-to-end corrugated workflow solution that integrates manufacturing, business and production processes.
We are the FUJIFILM Ink Solutions Group, an experienced inkjet technology partner to equipment manufacturers, integrators and ink formulators. We support our customers with full-service inkjet ink development and manufacturing, contract ink manufacturing services and supply of high quality pigment dispersion technology.
For over 50 years we have driven technology changes in screen, narrow web, textile and inkjet, building expertise across multiple market segments with a deep understanding of application and market requirements.
Our global team of six hundred experts in ink is supported by a network of dedicated technology development facilities and specialised manufacturing centres. Our infrastructure enables us to support projects of all sizes, including the largest OEMs and integrators with next generation machine developments for advanced applications, and we have the manufacturing capacity to meet the highest volume demands.
