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	> Vincent Naselli
	> Richard Romano
	> Joseph Webb, Ph.D.

Vincent Naselli
Vincent Naselli is the former Director of TrendWatch Graphic Arts, having been responsible for daily management of the information services provider. During his tenure at TWGA, he developed the "Research On Demand" service initiative, comprising fast turn around, economical, precision market research for individual companies seeking highly targeted data on specific issues and questions. He is a frequent contributor to WhatTheyThink.com and other leading industry publications. In previous professional roles, he served as Dealer Relations and Regional Sales Manager for Screen USA and was the Senior US Marketing Manager for Agfa of market research and competitive analysis and concurrently was the Senior U.S. Marketing Manager for Apogee responsible for PDF Workflow software and systems.

He has served as a past committee chairman of the Imaging & Prepress and Market Research subcommittees for the NPES market research program, one of the leading research trade associations in the graphic communications industries. He has also served as president and on the board of directors of GAMIS, the research trade association of the Printing Industries of America. Mr. Naselli speaks at numerous industry events about the trends in technology, business conditions, and the future of the imaging business. Some of the events he has participated in are Graph Expo, Executive Outlook, MacWorld CreativePro, and Connect, among others. He also directed significant investments in the TrendWatch Graphic Arts business and expansion of its client services, building on the established TrendWatch Graphic Arts offerings.

Mr. Naselli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and management from Kean University, New Jersey.

Richard Romano
Richard Romano has been one of the leading writers and students of the graphic arts industries for many years. He has analyzed numerous cutting-edge products for more than a decade, reporting about them and their impact to industry professionals through his association with the industry’s leading publications.

Since 2000, Richard Romano has been a writer and editor with TrendWatch Graphic Arts, contributing to the TrendWatch Graphic Arts Printing, Design & Production, Publishing, and Internet Design & Development survey reports, and has written more than two dozen Special Reports. He was also writer/editor/analyst for all three of TWGA's extensive research studies, the TrendWatch Graphic Arts Installed Base/Market Share Benchmark Study, the GAMIS-commissioned The Market for New Lithographic Presses in the Printing Industry, and the Media Requirements Study: The TrendWatch Graphic Arts Perspective on How Media Buying Behaviors Are Changing In The Printing And Related Industries. He also functioned in a similar capacity for two extensive studies conducted by TWGA in conjunction with Library Journal, profiling trends in research spending for both public and academic libraries. He has also worked with Publishers Weekly on an extensive study of religious/spirituality book-buying trends.

Between 1995 and 2000, he has been a full-time or contributing editor to Micro Publishing News, a now-defunct newsmonthly for electronic designers and print buyers, as well as its then-sister publication Digital Imaging. In 1998, he became managing editor of Digital Imaging and, in 1999, managing editor of Micro Publishing News, for which he wrote news stories and feature articles on new graphic arts technologies.

He is the editor-in-chief of The GATF Encyclopedia of Graphic Communications, a compendium of 10,000 graphic arts terms published in 1997 by the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. He is also the author or co-author of several books on graphics hardware and software, the most recent being Special Edition Using Adobe Photoshop CS (2003, Que Publishing).

He graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1989 with a B.S. in English and Writing for Telecommunications, and, in 1993, received a Certificate in Multimedia Production from New York University.

Joseph Webb, Ph.D.
Dr. Webb has been one of the industry's best-known consultants, and recently retired from private consulting practice. He now serves as an advisor to Naselli & Associates, speaks at industry events, groups, and company events, and writes about the printing industry's future. His commentary, speeches, and lively Q&A sessions have been featured at industry trade events.

A 25+ year veteran of the graphic arts industries, was the developer of the influential TrendWatch information service, sold to Reed Business in 2000. Outside the graphic arts, Dr. Webb and business partner Jim Whittington have brought TrendWatch methodologies to the broadcast and entertainment/visual effects imaging markets.

Since January 2003, his "Fridays with Dr. Joe" column has become a popular feature on WhatTheyThink.com, where he analyzes trends in the economy, technology, and the industry, and interprets what they mean for executives and their strategic decisions.

He is a Ph.D. graduate of the NYU Center for Graphic Communications Management and Technology (1987) and serves on the Center's Board of Advisors. He holds an MBA in Management Information Systems from Iona College (1981) and was a magna cum laude graduate in Managerial Sciences and Marketing from Manhattan College (1978), and was a member of the economics honor society. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in market research, quantitative analysis, business policy, and organizational behavior. He started in the industry with Agfa's Graphic Systems Division (1978–1980) and was a marketing executive with Chemco Photoproducts (1981–1987). He also served the industry as chairman of the NPES Statistics Committee and was an active member of the GAMIS special industry group of Printing Industries of America.

Among his publications is "Dr. Joe's Almanac," a resource of more than 500 industry publications, Web sites, associations, and others. He has also written "Renewing the Print Industry: A Contrarian's Constructive Perspective."