By Mark Rushton, Editor, PPI magazine, Graeme Rodden, Executive Editor, PPI magazine, Annie Zhu, Features Editor, PPI magazine, and Rhiannon James-Van Beuningen, Senior Vice President, Media Products, RISI41. Glen Hopkins, Hewlett Packard
Glen Hopkins is vice president and general manager of Inkjet Print Cartridges and Supplies R&D for HP's Printing & Technology Platforms (PTP) and Media Supplies and Solutions (MSS) groups. Hopkins has been the key sponsor of the ColorLok program in HP, and the ColorLok Technology was invented in his lab. By incorporating ColorLok papers into their product lines, companies supporting the standard can offer their customers papers that easily adapt to advancements in digital printing technology. Papers that use the ColorLok logo must pass a concise set of standards for print quality, as well as physical and electrostatic standards for quality and reliability. The Rochester Institute of Technology - Printing Applications Laboratory has been selected to ensure compliance with these standards. Since the program was publicly announced at Paperworld 2008, a variety of paper manufacturers, merchants and office products retailers' branded papers that have passed the ColorLok performance specifications and employ the ColorLok logo are being sold around the world. These companies include: APRIL, Copamex, Domtar, Georgia Pacific, International Paper, M-real, Mondi, Stora Enso, and Suzano.
42. Chip Dillon, Credit Suisse
Considered one of the best analysts and stock pickers in the paper industry, Chip Dillon has joined the Investment Bank's Equity Research Department as Paper and Packaging Analyst. Dillon has been consistently ranked in the top three in all major independent equity research polls.
43. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Whilst not quite taking the world by storm... yet, the Amazon Kindle, an electronic book reader, is slowly but surely beginning to get attention and we have put Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, which invented the nifty little gizmo, on the Power List because it will no doubt make inroads into the book publishing arena of the future. The Kindle offers wireless book downloads in under a minute via mobile phone networks, and it will hold an astonishing 3,500 books - more than enough for any avid novel reader to take on holiday with them. It also has a special text-to-speech feature that will read the pages from a book out aloud for those wishing for an audible bedtime story. It could also have an effect on magazines and newspapers.
There are also a raft of other electronic readers coming onto the market, including Bookeen Cybook, Sony Reader and BeBook, and if downloading books takes off anything like music, publication paper makers: be very scared......
44. Kathleen A. Walters, Georgia-Pacific
As executive vice president, global consumer products, Walters is responsible for a vast array of some of the most well know consumer brands that GP produces. However, Walters is particularly well suited for the intense competition of the consumer tissue market having served previously as vice president, away from home (AfH) North America, division for Kimberly-Clark and president, AfH Europe, for KC. She was also vice president of the tissue and skin care business for Scott Paper. Before joining GP, Walters was president and CEO, Sappi Fine Paper North America. GP is in Number 1 in North American tissue capacity and Walters' expertise will be called upon to help GP battle a recession that has seen AfH consumption stagnate as business travel and restaurant visits have been curtailed. The growth of private label brands is also a concern as consumers count their pennies in tough times.
45. Thomas O'Connor, Jr., Mohawk Fine Papers
The chairman and CEO of the largest privately held premium paper producer in North America, O'Connor is the third generation of his family to lead the company since it was founded in 1931 by George O'Connor. Known for its technological innovation and the emphasis it places on the environment, Mohawk has grown rapidly in the past few years. First, in 2005, it acquired the fine papers business of International Paper and, more recently, took over the uncoated paper brands of SMART Papers. In 2007, Mohawk purchased wind generated renewable energy certificates (REC) to 100 million kW/hr per year. This represents 100% of all electricity used in Mohawk's production, converting and distribution facilities.
46. Thomas J. Quinlan III, RR Donnelley
As president and CEO of the world's largest provider of printing and print-related business services in the world, Quinlan oversees a company with more than $11 billion in annual sales. The company recently made an unsuccessful $1.35 billion bid for "all or substantially all" of the assets of Quebecor World, which has sought bankruptcy protection. Donnelley recently acquired Chile-based web printer PROSA earlier in 2009. Under Quinlan, the company plans to continue to pursue other "strategic initiatives".
47. Thomas E. Gestrich, IP
As president of International Paper Asia as well as being a senior vp at the company, Gestrich is one of the key personalities in driving operations in the Far East and particularly China where in the last two and a half years, the company has seen a rapid rise in production facilities from five to 15 converting plants, and the paper production has risen to 850,000 tonnes/yr.
Gestrich states that the company is very focused on what customers are doing, particularly in emerging countries, and stated in a recent interview with PPI that: "Seventy percent of economic growth in the world comes from Asia and 40% of that comes from China in paper board and pulp. So that is where the market is growing. We need to position ourselves to be part of the growth. We try to position ourselves in the right place at the right time. We are interested in making investments in Asia. You may not see projects for 2-3 years, but we are constantly looking into the right opportunities. And we will go after them when the timing is right."
48. Jeff Marshall, Espresso Book Machine
The really hot phrase in the printing community now is "on demand" and that means exactly what it says. Due to the digitization of almost every book, you can now go into a bookshop and demand almost any title you wish, and it will be printed while you wait. This is made possible by very clever printing machines that have a very small footprint which produce and bind copies of your requested book in mind-bending speed while you wait. The inventor of one of these types of machines is Jeff Marshall, responsible for the Espresso machine, which can be seen in bookshops now in almost all major cities. The machine can produce up to 20 quality paperbacks an hour in any language without any human intervention at all.
49. Don Lewis, SCA Tissue North America
Lewis started his career in the paper industry more than 20 years ago at Fort Howard Paper. He was a key part of getting SCA's new Barton, AL, machine up and running. Lewis spearheaded SCA Tissue's seamless transition from a company with a variety of acquired brands to the single Tork® brand of its parent company,creating the first global Away From Home brand in the industry. He also has played a major role in building SCA Tissue's reputation for innovation and environmental leadership and for customer relationships that have earned dozens of national vendor awards.
50. The Christian Church
The Bible is the best selling book of all time. Between 1816 and 1975, it was estimated that 2.5 billion copies were printed. By 1992, that number had jumped to more than 6 billion and an estimated 100 million copies or more are sold every year. That is a lot of paper!
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