Technology & Research

James Cozart 
VP of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service at 48HourPrint.com

James Cozart is VP of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service at 48HourPrint.com, a leading national printing firm that does 100% of its business online, including 24/7 automated processing of customer proofs and orders. Headquartered in Boston, the firm has printing plants in Ohio and Arizona, and a software engineering and web development division in New Hampshire.

Mr. Cozart has more than 25 years experience leading and managing complex projects involving automation, integration, and ERP implementation across multiple sites. In addition, he has been responsible for successful CRM and SFA implementations in multiple companies, ranging from Fortune 200 to SMB. He holds an MBA in Management from University of Alabama at Birmingham and a BA in Mass Communications from Southern Arkansas University. His professional background includes marketing, sales, training, and general management roles at major printing and paper companies, including Cenveo, Tension Envelope Corporation and Atlantic Envelope Company. Other stops along the way include Health and Wellness in the K-12 market, and consultant/management roles with TRW in their Baan Practice.
 

Chuck Gehman 
Vice President of Product Platforms at Mimeo.com

Chuck Gehman is Vice President of Product Platforms at Mimeo.com. Chuck's team manages the development of Mimeo's customer-facing web sites, and the physical products produced in Mimeo's Automated Document Factories.

Before joining Mimeo.com, Gehman was Director of Product Management at EFI, Inc., where he led the product efforts for web-to-print and production workflow solutions used by thousands of companies worldwide. Before EFI, Inc., he was one of the founders and CTO of Printable Technologies (now known as PTI Marketing Technologies).

Gehman is on the board of directors on the boards of directors of the Electronic Document Scholarship Foundation, and the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA). He is the co-chairman of the Printing Industries of America's Digital Printing Council, and is also a member of the IEEE and the global Internet Society (ISOC).

James E. Harvey 
Executive Director, CIP4 Organization

James E. Harvey is the founder and president of Media4theWorld, LLC where he serves full-time as CIP4 Organization's Executive Director and is responsible for the overall management of the organization. He was also responsible for the edit and production of the 1.1 and 1.2 editions of the Job Definition Format specification. He was also a co-founder and partner of Quantum Paper, LLC — the only company capable of printing full-motion video displays onto ordinary paper, which is now incorporated and part of Nth Degree Technologies Worldwide. For eight years was VP of Spectrum Operations at Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance), a technical and management association for the print and Internet publishing industries. For eight years Harvey was also a Business Development Manager at Volt Information Sciences where he organized and pioneered document and data warehousing, SGML services and applications, CD-ROM publishing, hypermedia, and object-oriented document constructs. He has held numerous industry posts including Steering Committee member of the ASN, VP & Board member of TAGA, Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Ad Lab, Secretary of ANSI/PIMI IT2 (Densitometry), has authored or co-authored several key industry documents, including the new Best Practices for Print Automation published by PIA, and has spoken at over 200 industry events. Jim earned his M.S. in Business from John Hopkins University and studied publications management at George Washington University.
 

Chris Heric 
Automation Solutions Architect at EskoArtwork/Enfocus

Chris is a 25 year, well-known veteran of digital prepress and print-production workflows. He was responsible for some of the first digital-prepress solutions based upon PostScript and desktop applications. His experiences in the field have given him insight that has brought about his involvement in the development of many software projects for print and prepress, including Adobe PostScript, InDesign, Acrobat, Enfocus Pitstop, Switch, and more. Chris is and has been active in a number of graphics arts standards organizations from SWOP, CGATS, to PDF, and JDF/CIP4 throughout his career as an independent consultant. An expert in desktop-to-production workflow, Chris currently chairs the Content Creation Working Group for CIP4, and is very active in the organization through the TSC etc. Chris recently joined Belgian software developer EskoArtwork/Enfocus as a Workflow Automation Architect, and is working to develop software solutions to meet the needs and demands of a modern digital production system. 
 

Dov Isaacs
Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Incorporated

Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Incorporated. A 21-year veteran of Adobe, he has responsibility for workflow and product interoperability issues associated with print publishing workflow products. He is also the "spiritual venture capitalist" behind the Adobe PDF Print Engine technology.

Dov also serves as Adobe's representative to the Ghent PDF Workgroup, the RIT Printing Industry Center, CIP4, and several ISO committees associated with print industry standards including PDF/X and PDF/VT for which he serves as the chairperson and co-chairperson respectively. Additionally, he monitors numerous InDesign, PDF, prepress, and printing e-mail lists and user forums, not only contributing advice and solutions, especially in the area of printing and PDF workflow, but also using issues raised and problems identified as feedback for Adobe development. Previously, Dov founded Adobe's corporate product interoperability group and also served in other engineering and marketing management positions within Adobe including serving seven years as Director of Quality Assurance for Adobe's PostScript printing and driver products.

Prior to Adobe, he served in engineering management positions in the areas of laser printer, office automation systems, and computer operating system development. Dov Isaacs received his PhD in Computer Science from the Ohio State University as well as an MBA in management systems from Cornell University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.