01732 759725 ONE-TO-ONE 46 Eric Crump, Director, Strategic Alliances, FollowMe Team at Ringdale spoke to Michelle Ryder about the changes both in terms of technology and customer needs, he’s witnessed over the past ten years Step back in Crump has racked up a quarter century within the print sector working both in the US and the EMEA region. In addition to his role as Director, Strategic Alliances, FollowMe Team at Ringdale, he is also an executive board member at the Managed Print Services Association and has been a judge at the PrintIT Awards since we launched in 2020. Looking back to the beginning of his career, he said that his first year in the print sector was both challenging and exciting. “The main thing that attracted me to the sector was the opportunity to work with a competitive team solving problems and winning large contracts for public sector customers. In my first year, our team achieved 125 per cent of quota.” Crump’s first job was working as a presales engineer for Lexmark selling to US state and local government organisations, schools and universities. “I was working with end-users and resellers in ten states across the southeast from Maryland to Florida to Kentucky,” he explained. Eric Crump
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