PRINT IT AWARDS continued... 51 PRINTITRESELLER.UK 23 Alison Haley, Marketing Specialist, Tangerine Design and PR Alison Haley is a highly experienced marketeer within the office equipment industry. With a career spanning 28 years, at the heart of the office equipment dealer channel, she has an excellent reputation within the industry, for building valuable relationships and helping reseller businesses to achieve their potential through creative tailor-made marketing, in-house and external communications, PR and events. For the last 17 years Alison has driven channel marketing activity as the UK Marketing Manager of Olivetti and, previously, spent 11 years raising the profile of Konica Minolta, and its dealers, as Advertising, PR and Events Manager. Now, running her freelance creative marketing services business, Tangerine Design and PR, Alison continues to devote her time to the wider channel arena as well as providing marketing expertise to many other industry segments. www.tangerinedesignandpr.co.uk Kasia Holthouse, Strategic Account Manager, Reality Labs, Meta Kasia is an experienced sales professional with a passion for strategy, customer service and digital transformation. She spent 13 years in the print industry working for both OEMs and ISVs. Through her hands on approach and focus on customer experience, Kasia earned the trust of several national and international businesses across the industry. She has a wealth of knowledge on MPS, device management, and channel dynamics. Kasia is currently working at Meta Reality Labs, helping businesses across EMEA adapt to the ‘Future of Work’. She is a mum of two, and advocate for flexible working. Louella Fernandes, Director, Quocirca Louella is globally recognised as a leading authority on market trends in the print, imaging and managed services industry. As an independent industry analyst, Louella provides unique strategic insight and competitive analysis of markets which include managed print services, digital disruption, security and channel trends. Louella has an extraordinary breadth of understanding of the global market dynamic and the rapid changes the print and imaging industry is experiencing. Key areas of current research focus include the growing impact of the IoT landscape on the printing market; why smart multifunctional products should be better leveraged as intelligent, connected devices; digital transformation, managed print services, workflow and collaboration, alongside emerging trends such as augmented reality and 3D printing. www.quocirca.com Brendan Perring, General Manager, IPIA After graduating from Edinburgh University with an MA (Hons) in English Literature and History, Brendan worked as an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of Scotland. Following this experience, he moved to Wales and attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from Cardiff University and carried out freelance work for a number of regional newspapers. Brendan’s next move took him into the printing world as Editor at Signlink magazine and Deputy Editor of Print Monthly magazine. After two years he was promoted to Editor of Print Monthly and then this was shortly followed by becoming Managing Editor of Link Publishing, which owns these national print titles. After helping to found Link Exhibitions, and with the successful launch of The Print Show, which took place for the first time in October 2015, Brendan was made director of Link Publishing and Link Exhibitions. After a spell working in PR, looking after clients in the insurance, marketing, outsourcing and exhibition sectors, Brendan joined the IPIA to take up its newly created position of General Manager. He has been in his post for three years and the IPIA continues to go from strength to strength. https://ipia.org.uk Julian Stafford, Former Managing Director, Midshire Having been in print for most of his career, Julian is a valuable addition to the judging panel. He began his career as Dealer Manager for Riso where he rose through the ranks to become National Sales Manager. In 1997, he left Riso to set-up Midshire with friends Phil Powell and Kevin Tunley. Phil ran the Birmingham operation, while Julian headed up the northern division, which provided him with the opportunity to move back to his native Stockport. Midshire was Riso’s biggest dealer in Europe and was a major reseller for many OEMs including Panasonic, Ricoh, Toshiba and Sharp, the business also partnered with HP and Lexmark for A4 printers. Prior to an acquisition by Sharp in 2017, the business’ annual turnover was c£35 million. Julian agreed to stay on and lead the business while it continued to operate as an independent organisation. By November 2019, Midshire had become fully integrated with Sharp’s direct operation, and Julian decided the time was right to retire and pursue other interests. He is currently mentoring a number of SMEs, helping them to achieve strategic business goals; remains active in the commercial and residential property sectors; enjoying spending time with his family and travelling.
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