General Profiles

In September, Carol and I made an incredibly special trip to Blue Technologies in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Cannata Report speaks with DEX Imaging’s CEO Dan Doyle Jr. about Gamut Capital Management’s acquisition of DEX Imaging from Staples, which closed in June.

Frank G. Cannata shares his thoughts on the passing of Nancy Scantland, wife of Lou Scantland, founder of DOCUmation.

RJ Young’s AJ Baggott discusses new diversification opportunities, where the dealership is finding IT and cybersecurity talent, the dealership’s flourishing production print business, and new initiatives that have him excited.

Frontier Business Products, a 44-year-old Colorado dealership, is focused on diversifying its product offerings and expanding through acquisitions under Scott Schnabel, a 27-year document imaging industry veteran, who joined the dealership as its President a year and a half ago.

Editor’s note: Earlier this week, we received an email from John Sutton, vice president software solutions for Novatech, about the passing of his friend and mentor, Lee Rummage. Rummage spent…

Recently, we received an invitation to one more retirement party and happily accepted. This time it was for Jim D’Emidio…

Each week we reach out to folks from different segments of our industry to learn what they are reading, watching, and listening to as a way to…

When we last left Kevin DeYoung, president of Qualpath in Pompano Beach, Florida, he was sharing how his dealership was primed for the pandemic…

Kevin DeYoung and his team at Qualpath in Pompano Beach, Florida were primed for the pandemic. Based in a region of the country that experiences many weather events such…

With COVID-19 shuttering brick-and-mortar establishments across the U.S. and the globe, business is anything but usual right now. Many…

I first met Reed Melnick about 15 years ago when he was president of Nevill Document Solutions in Irving, Texas, one of the top Kyocera dealers in…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Tony Nami, president, Prior & Nami Business Systems, Hamilton, NJ. The dealership…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Chelsey Bode, president, Pearson-Kelly Technology, Springfield, MO. Pearson-Kelly offers…

Inspired by the 1972 Studs Terkel book “Working,” where the author interviewed a couple of hundred different people in different professions…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Hunter McCarty, executive vice president, RJ Young, Nashville, TN. RJ Young offers…

For this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” CJ Cannata connected with Doug Pitassi, president of Pacific Office Automation (POA) in Beaverton, OR…

Last June, Kerstin Woods joined Toshiba America Business Systems (TABS) as vice president of product and solution marketing. Since then…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with one of the channel’s most quoted dealers, Chip Miceli, president of Pulse Technology…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with the always candid Frank Gaspari, CEO of FlexPrint and Flex Technology Group (FTG) in Mesa…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Deb Dellaposta, president of Doing Better Business (DBB) in Altoona, PA. The dealership sells…

n this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Preston Woolfolk, co-president, DOCUmation in San Antonio, Texas. DOCUmation…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Susie Woodhull, president, Woodhull LLC in Dayton, Ohio. Woodhull LLC is a Ricoh dealer…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Dawn Abbuhl, president, Repeat Business Systems in Albany, New York. Let’s hear what…

In this installment of “Dealer Check-in,” we touch base with Chap Breard, president and Ricki Sullivan, senior vice president at…