SPICY talks 2018

Michelle Bengermino

VP PRODUCT MANAGEMENT Demand Bridge

Michelle Bengermino has 18 years of history with DemandBridge and has led the product vision, development, support and delivery of our software products. She has contributed to the development of the DemandBridge Enterprise product from its earliest stages through roles in feature design, development, support, implementation, and training.

Deborah Corn

Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse at PrintMediaCentr

Deborah Corn is the Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse at PrintMediaCentr, a Print Buyerologist™, industry speaker and author, host of Podcasts from The Printerverse, cultivator of Print Production Professionals the #1 print group on LinkedIn, host of #PrintChat every Wednesday at 4PM ET on Twitter, and the founder of International Print Day. She is the recipient of several industry honors including the 2016 Girls Who Print Girlie Award, and sits on the board of the Advertising Production Club of NYC.
Deborah has 25+ years experience working in advertising as a Print Producer, and currently works behind the scenes with printers, suppliers and industry organizations helping them create meaningful relationships with customers and achieve success with their social media and content marketing endeavors.

Thomas D'hollander

CHILI publish - Solution architect

Thomas Eusterholz

DAM experts

Thomas is a member of "dam-experts" - a group of experienced specialists who help various companies successfully implement digital transformation in marketing. Fascinated by the possibilities of image recognition, two years ago he began to combine marketing processes with the possibilities of Artifiial Inteligence. His current projects deals with topics such as: effective machine training, automatic population of PIM systems and layout of catalog pages through artificial intelligence processes. Initial results of his projects prove that Artificial Intelligence will transform marketing processes and create sustainable value. He gets lots of inspiration for his projects from his clients in the US.

Jason Frueh

Founder MyCreativeShop

MyCreativeShop specialises in the creation of flyers and brochures and has thousands of visitors per day, serving customers from all over the world. Jason talks about the cooperation: "CHILI publish keeps tailoring CHILI publisher to the changing needs of their customers, in the most professional manner. They want to keep the fit perfect and that's how they remain an essential contributor to our success. Without CHILI publisher, we would not be the company we are today, to be honest."

Amer Mallah

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Demand Bridge

With 17 years at DemandBridge, Amer Mallah has been a leader in engineering and long-term architectural guidance for the company's operations and client services. Amer is responsible for the technical design, construction, and performance for all of our DemandBridge software products and he leads our engineering team accordingly.

Pat McGrew

DAM, industry strategist

Pat McGrew is the Director and Evangelist for the Production Workflow Advisory Service at KeyPoint Intelligence / InfoTrends covering commercial, packaging and textile. As an analyst and industry educator, Pat works with InfoTrends customers and their clients to promote workflow effectiveness. She also has a background in transaction print, data-driven customer communication, and production printing with offset, inkjet and toner. Co-author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and regular writer in the industry trade press, Pat won the 2014 #GirlsWhoPrint Girlie Award for dedication to education and communication in the industry, and the 2016 Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award from Xplor International. She is also co-host of the Is Print Dead? Podcast with Kevin Craine. Find Pat on Twitter as @PatMcGrew and on LinkedIn.

Sten Migerode

CHILI publish - Solution expert

Sten is an IT professional that has worked several years as an expert in ECM (Enterprise Content Management).
Over the years, Sten accumulated a lot of experience by working in different roles on several big projects for national and international companies and institutions including
the European Commission, BNP Paribas LUX, Jan De Nul, Ernst & Young, and many more.

With his experience in both functional analysis, IT architecture and application development, Sten has been able to successfully connect both business and technical stakeholders in the project, by speaking their language.

In his free time, Sten likes to spend his time and money on playing and listening music.

Sander Nijs

CHILI publish - Solution expert

Sander is a young and enthusiastic IT-professional who joined the chili-team last year.
He has experience in software development, BI and is a data enthusiast.


With the experience and knowledge he collected he is ready to help you finding your way in chili.
Having an economical background on top, he can easily understand the importance of both the technical and business aspect of how to handle chili in your workflow.

In his spare time Sander likes to travel, is fascinated by languages and wants to explore (food)culture and history.

Nico Potvin

Partner at Kandesign - Co-founder of Kadanza

KAN Design & Brand management has been around for 30 years, serving a wide variety of B2B companies and brands with brand management, development and marketing solutions. 7 years after implementing CHILI publisher, the company develops on average +25 000 documents per year with CHILI publisher via their Kadanza platform. 7 people out of 20 employees in total work with CHILI publisher full-time. Nico concludes: "Brands are all about innovation and consistency. A successful business is too. The integration of CHILI publisher really opened up new opportunities for us. And markets. Our team has grown, we opened up an office in New York, a partnership in Zurich and keep on developed new solutions to help our customers with their brand management. It truly is a great solution with amazing features. We love working with a team that understands our forward-looking vision and offers the future-proof service to match.”

Iurie Protascic

CHILI publish - Product Specialist

You might have heard abut him by different names: Lurie, Ivry and even Fury.
But only people who know him or want to attract his attention call him Iurie. :)

Iurie is a Graphics Arts Industry professional that has studied and worked in all stages of print production, starting from document layout ending with color management and every stage in between.

He has integrated and managed multiple web to print projects, for national and international customer with different needs and workflows. Where his IT skills merged with his background to provide best possible solution in regards to both graphical and IT technical worlds.

This knowledge and experience gives him a wide perspective when it comes to finding the best strategy and project plan for a specific integration and also helps him identify the issues or potential roadblocks along the way.

Theresa Regli

DAM, industry strategist

Theresa Regli is a 25-year veteran of the information technology industry, with a particular focus on Digital Asset Management (DAM) for the last decade. She advises C-level executives and DAM project leads on digital strategy, data design, and product selection, and subsequently supports the sustainment of digital stewardship and best practices. As founder of her own firm, Vox Veritas Digital, she works with several UK government institutions and focuses much of her work on cultural heritage, including The Museum of London and The Art Fund, the UK's largest art charity. By contrast, she has led and developed DAM strategy for over 20% of the Fortune 500, including Unilever, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Shell, and Nestlé. She advises numerous numerous media, entertainment, and manufacturing companies as Principal Consultant with KlarisIP, and is also a Partner with Jericho Chambers, a London-based think tank and community of experts working together to deliver new programmes of communications, leadership, and trust.
Over the course of her career Theresa has authored over 1000 pages of in-depth research on the DAM industry, vendors, and tools, and she is the author of the definitive book on managing media and digital marketing assets, Digital & Marketing Asset Management: The Real Story of DAM Technology and Practice. She has presented keynotes in 18 countries over the last ten years, and is frequently a guest lecturer in the digital media Master's program at Kings College, London.
Theresa is a graduate of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth's Executive MBA Program, and holds degrees in linguistics, journalism, and French language from Boston College in the USA, L'Université Stendhal in France, and Richmond College in the United Kingdom.
This site will help you get to know Theresa: watch some of her conference talks, and hear about her work as a clear voice of truth in the complex and often confusing world of digital technology.

Sean Smyth

Smithers Pira

Sean Smyth acts as a consultant in print and packaging, either independently of on behalf of Smithers Pira, and as a journalist. He is technically very strong, he helps companies make money through the appropriate implementation of technology.

He has spent over 30 years in the industry in senior technology positions for a variety of print businesses across the supply chain, in hands on and consultancy roles. He joined the industry as an ink chemist before moving into a series of senior technical and managerial roles. As Technical Director at Rexam Printing he was deeply involved in digital print, with the first Indigo presses in the UK amongst others. He has owned and managed printing and packaging businesses in the UK, and been involved in many investment decisions over the years.

Today he acts as consultant and analyst, he has written many market studies for Smithers Pira on future print markets and technologies. He regularly speaks and acts as Chair at conferences on printing technology, including Smithers Pira Digital Print for Packaging in the USA and Europe. He edited the Digital Labels & Packaging magazine from Whitmar Publications, for whom he acts as Group Technical Editor.

Beside his Ph.D. Sean also holds an MBA and is used to providing strategic advice for players across the print, packaging and publishing supply chains. He has acted as a non-exec Technology Director for print and packaging companies, and apologises for not keeping his website and social media profiles up to date – he spends his time on projects and keeping abreast of technology developments.

Jonathan Stuart

Paragon Group

Jonathan Stuart - Group CTO, Paragon Group
Paragon Group is an international organisation present in 12 countries with a global sales reach, €600+ million turnover and close to 5,000 employees. It is organised in three divisions: Customer Communications, Paragon ID, and Graphics Solutions.
Jonathan is responsible for group IT strategy and systems policy, for the development of central group applications and for supporting the deployment of technology-based services by the operating companies.
He joined the Paragon Group in 2000, taking having previously held positions as Managing Director of Hardy Holdings and Finance Director of Hunterprint Group plc. Prior to that he spent 9 years in investment banking and venture capital in London and the US, and 7 years in high technology R&D in Cambridge.

He holds a First Class masters degree in Engineering and Electrical Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Marcus Timson

Co-Founder InPrint Show and Pure Digital Show

Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom
I left the University of Portsmouth, UK, with a degree in Politics back in 1992. I had a great time. Leaving without a clue what to do next and during a downturn, I was fortunate enough to literally fall into working at a publishing company. Here, I learned about selling, marketing, writing, and aspects of thought leadership which remain with me still.
At Reed Business Information around 1996, I met my Co-Founder Frazer Chesterman and then jumped head first into the live event and exhibition industry where I have enjoyed being ever since. In that time I have launched number of successful new shows, and have had the privilege of working with a number of talented people.

At Brintex, Touchstone and Exposure I worked on a number of new shows and launched a number of events before I joined FESPA in 2006 and the digital wide format printing market. Along with Frazer we grew the business into what it is today, launching new shows including FESPA Digital and FESPA Asia in Bangkok in 2008.

Since 2011, along with Frazer Chesterman & Stephen Brooks, we established FM Brooks, which is part of the Mack Brooks Exhibitions Group. Our focus has been to launch new shows for industrial printing for the manufacturing sector and for the creative industry.

Now we run the InPrint Show is the world's only event focused upon industrial printing and takes place in Germany, Italy and the US and we will continue to grow this community throughout the world whilst launching new shows into new markets and connecting the previously unconnected.
As well as the show itself we run and write the InPrint Blog which is a really popular blog with over 9,000 subscribers.
In April 2017, we launched Pure Digital which is the Digital Print Event for the Creative Industry, and takes place at the RAI, Amsterdam 17-19 April 2018.
In order for any new event, or business to become successful, a deep understanding of the market is essential. Not just to enhance one's reputation or credibility but to provide the market place with direction, support and value. I am fascinated by leadership and innovation and have a love of presenting and writing. These twin abilities enable me to have a positive influence on people's lives and add value to their business.