Bios

Bob Lambie, CEO

Entrepreneur, Database Programmer, Systems Analyst, Small Business Owner. Retired U.S.A.F. AZANG. 21 years JP Morgan Chase (formerly Bank One, formerly Valley National Bank of Arizona) Small Business Owner/Consultant since 1998. Over the years, while performing technical duties I always gravitated to analyzing business processes then developing solutions. Those solutions included client/server, web based, barcode, wired/wireless… Always using legacy systems in order to keep transition costs low. From Large IBM Mainframes to Windows powered PDA’s, it was the total solution that was interesting, less so the technology. The clients included both large and small such as County of San Diego, Waste Management, US Navy, Law Firm startups… and of course Print Shops. As a small business owner there have been successes and failures. I’ve done startups and fixer uppers. Each was lesson in perseverance and problem solving.

Andrew Simmons, VP Business Development

Andrew Simmons has been active in the print industry since the age of 15 when he took an industrial arts class in high school and learned typography and printing. His first job was running an ABDick 360 press after school and weekends. At the age of 27, he was President of Central Graphics, managing a company turnaround with $3 million in sales and 55 employees. In 1996 he left Central Graphics to start Moby Digital, a digital printing company. His first acquisition was an IBM Infocolor 70 (Xeikon technology), followed by two Xerox Docucolor 70′s (also Xeikon technology). Over the next four years, he acquired an ES1000 (pre-HP Indigo); a Heidelberg QM-DI; and then a Ryobi 524 press for his growing static work.

In 2000, he joined IKON Office Solutions as a production manager for a very large overflow center. He moved into selling digital color copiers within two years, and quickly became one of the top color specialists for the company on the west coast. In 2006 he left IKON to work for Kodak as a digital press salesman. Following the adoption of six children, he left Kodak to work again at IKON which required much less traveling. He took a mini-retirement to focus on the needs of his children after 9 months at IKON, and now publishes DigitalPrint360, the industry-read newsletter for digital printing. DigitalPrint360 has been publishing stories on digital printing since 2000.

His strengths in digital printing are knowing the technology and ROI for all digital presses, having either owned or sold them. He also teaches social media marketing to printers, helping them to use tools which can help acquire top-level customers using subtle methods.

Ken Williams,  VP Operations

President of Ken Williams Graphic Consulting (KWGC), Ken has been a fixture in the printing community for the last 30 years. For the last 10 years, he’s been selling and servicing Shinohara commercial printing presses, selling more than 65 presses in 8 years – more than any other independent Shinohara dealer in the United States. Factory trained and an engineer by trade, he is highly sought after for press repair, pressroom planning and consulting work. He was one of the first dealers for the MGI digital press, being selected 18 months ago to represent the line. Prior to KWGC, he worked for Prism Lithographic Technologies, selling the Ryobi and Shinohara press lines.

His expertise lies in the production and operation of commercial printing plants. His knowledge has helped many of his customers to succeed in an analog world, and his work now is helping those same customers transition to digital. It doesn’t matter what brand the digital press is, it only matters that businesses can capitalize on their acquisitions in a profitable manner.