Assaf Avrahami holds BSc in mechanical and electrical engineering and an MBA in technological management and marketing. He is also a PhD candidate in the area of industrial management.

Avrahami is currently working as CEO of Yedioth Information Technology (the technology and online company of Yedioth group) – the company is also running the e-vrit project. Earier in his carrer, Avrahami served as a major in the Israeli Navy, and as CEO of Yedioth communication press (the printing company of Yedioth group).

Gary Hughes – Senior Director, Manufacturing Operation, Newspaper Group & General Manager, Vaughan Plant – Transcontinental Printing

Gary Hughes is Transcontinental Printing's Senior Director, Manufacturing Operation, Newspaper Group & General Manager, Vaughan Plant and has just completed the installation of hybrid printing presses in five print sites across Canada for the printing of The Globe and Mail newspaper. Prior to this project, Hughes, was responsible for the construction of the first LEED certified print facility in North America, as well as the installation of three Man Roland hybrid printing presses for the printing of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Prior to joining Transcontinental Printing Gary spent 23 years with Gannett Company, Inc. in various operational roles.

Ken Harding - Managing Director - FTI

Ken Harding is a managing director in FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in Denver. Mr. Harding has over 27 years of professional experience in the media industry, with a strong focus on newspapers. Mr. Harding has provided strategic business and operational consulting services and leadership to newspaper and media companies of varying size. He has worked at the corporate and business-unit level to lead cost-saving and performance optimization studies for numerous engagements.

With direct involvement in well over 200 newspaper and publishing projects, Mr. Harding’s industry experience is unmatched. Harding’s recent projects have delivered value-based solutions in Advertising & News Operations, Production, Transportation and Circulation / Delivery. Harding has recently provided services to newspapers of varying scale including Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Tampa Tribune, (Chicago) Sun-Times, (Springfield) The Republican and (Harrisburg) Patriot-News. Recent Corporate clients include Advance Publications, Belo, Gannett, McClatchy, Media General, Media News Group and Tribune Publishing.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Harding was president and CEO of HARDING CONSUTLING ALLIANCE, a boutique consulting firm specializing in performance optimization across media businesses’ core functional areas. From 2003 -2006 Harding was corporate Vice President / Operations and Distribution for Tribune Publishing where he was responsible for Publishing Group initiatives and support of operations and distribution at each of the business units through local vice presidents. In that position, Mr. Harding reviewed and approved capital projects for all Tribune newspapers and directed benchmarking and continuous improvement initiatives in operations and distribution as well as other areas of publishing. Harding’s career has included ownership roles for established industry firms including designALLIANCE and Blevins Harding Group.

Michael Hack , born in 1962, is a graduated industrial engineer at the university in Stuttgart.

For more than 20 years he has been working on the topic marketing for printing plants. For about 18 years, he worked as a managing director for different printing companies. Today, he is stockholder of a consultancy for printing plants with main focus on marketing and communication in Munich. Furthermore he is author with topic marketing of the leading trade magazine for the printing industry in Germany.

Born in 1960, Arved Huebler studied Physics in Heidelberg and Berlin. His PhD in the field of image science was honoured with several awards. In 1992, Arved Huebler joined the Bertelsmann Group in Guetersloh, Germany, which is one of the largest media companies worldwide. At Bertelsmann, he became Technical Director a was responsible for several main technological projects. In 1997, he was appointed to a professorship at Chemnitz University of Technology,Germany. He is director of the Institute for Print and Media Technology [pmTUC] at the University with about 60 employees today.

Arved Huebler is a member of various national and international scientific organisations. He has over 100 publications, holds several patents and was chair of several international conferences. He is member of the board at OEA, the international Organic Electronics Association. Furthermore, he is co-founder and CEO of printed systems GmbH in Chemnitz,a young company focused on printed electronics