Experienced Team Delivering Document Management Solutions
Meet the people who are helping to shape the direction of DataBank:
Dick Aschman – CEO
Dick is a dynamic business leader, and one of a hand full of executives who has led global businesses in the document management, business services, entertainment imaging and commercial printing industries. He is recognized for his marketing savvy and for building customer-focused organizations driven to produce profitable growth. As CEO, he led Vutek, a manufacturer of grand format inkjet printers and inks, to a world leadership position. Prior to joining Vutek he spent his career with Kodak, where he directed some of the company’s fastest growing and most profitable units. Dick also has international experience, living in Tokyo, where he managed Kodak businesses in Asia. Click Here for Full Bio
Chuck Bauer – COO
Chuck is an entrepreneur and General Manager with extensive experience building imaging companies. Successes include start-ups, private equity partnering and international experience, plus operating businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. He is recognized for driving market share, operational excellence and delivering results. Chuck has consistently proved his ability to build and lead teams strengthened by a strong financial background and an intense focus on customers and their specific needs, goals, and satisfaction. Click Here for Full Bio
Sandy Brunner – CFO
Sandy has extensive experience in both public accounting and private business. She began her career with Ernst & Young in the Entrepreneurial Services Group in New York, where her focus was primarily on young, mid-sized entities. From there, Sandy moved into the energy sector where she held a variety of senior accounting positions working with an international Income Trust Fund. Since 2003, Sandy has been in the document imaging industry, joining DataBank and becoming DataBank’s Corporate Controller in 2005. She was named Chief Financial Officer in April 2008. Sandy received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.
Chad Van Norman – CIO
Chad is a leader in the technology business with extensive experience in document imaging software, network components, computer infrastructure and office technologies that drive our industry. He oversees the internal and external technology requirements of the corporation and occasionally serves as a consultant to clients on technical and security measures. He leads staff and support teams that provide the design, installation, training and systems integration of infrastructure and document management solutions driving business process improvements at all levels of the organization. He initiated and deployed the recent redesign of the DataBank Customer Support Desk charged with delivering world-class customer support.
In response to the growing concern about security in the industry, Chad led DataBank’s initiative to implement the most secure, reliable and efficient network in our industry – evaluating hardware, software, policies and procedures, and best-in-class partners. With his insight, management and direction, DataBank achieved the widely recognized auditing standard Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 Type II certification and Payment Card Industry (PCI) – Data Security Standard (DSS) certification with independent third-party assurances for service organizations, thus positioning DataBank to provide secure hosting and SaaS services throughout the U.S. and to ensure customer data is safe from breaches when in DataBank hands.
Gary Blackwelder – General Manager, Gulf Region
Gary has over thirty years experience in the document imaging industry. He literally grew up in this industry, riding with his father while he made sales calls for a major micrographic equipment manufacturer. While earning his BS in Accounting from Louisiana Tech University, he co-founded Microfilm Supply, Inc. with his father. This company was the first micrographic service bureau in Northern Louisiana. Gary grew his business and transitioned it into a full scale digital imaging and micrographics business offering a comprehensive array of document management services and solutions. In 1997, his company became one of the founding companies of ImageMax, Inc. Gary is responsible for sales and production centers located in Monroe, LA, and Dallas and Houston, TX.
Rich Lane – General Manager, Central Region
Rich is responsible for the sales and production facilities in Chicago, Illinois and Chesterton, Indiana. In 1993 Rich founded Record Technologies, Inc. (RTI), a service bureau focused on the Litigation Support market. He sold this company in 2000 and joined ImageMax where he held several senior management positions in product marketing, production and technology. Prior to forming his own company, Rich was employed by Dun & Bradstreet Software where he held various positions in their Professional Services Division. He has an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from Bowling Green University.
John Gerry – General Manager, West Region
John is DataBank’s Western Region General Manager, and is responsible for all sales and production operations for DataBank’s production center located in Sacramento, CA. He has been involved in the Document Imaging industry for over 30 years, and is a respected veteran within the industry. John recently joined DataBank, after working at Eastman Kodak Company for 30 years. At Kodak, he held several key management and sales positions, managing both direct and indirect sales organizations for digital- and film-based imaging systems. John was instrumental in, and a key member of, the marketing team that developed and launched Kodak’s first high-speed document scanner in the late 1980’s. John received his B. S. degree in Business Administration and Management from Jacksonville University, Florida.
Bob Zagami – General Manager, New England
Bob is responsible for the DataBank sales and production facilities covering New England and Upstate New York. He is the former president of Information Technology, Inc. and merged that company into The Spaulding Company in 1993. Spaulding was acquired in an IPO in 1997 and the assets of that company were purchased by DataBank when this company was founded in 2005. Bob is the Chairman of AIIM International’s Board of Directors and will serve in that capacity through December 2009. He is the recipient of several industry awards including the Carl E. Nelson Engineering Award, the Distinguished Service Citation, and the Award of Merit, the industry’s highest honor. Bob is also a member of the prestigious AIIM Company of Fellows.
John Oldham - General Manager, Mid Atlantic
John has 30 years of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) software and outsourcing services experiences, where he has held executive positions for industry startups and leaders. Previously, Oldham has served as Senior Vice President for the software start up River Logic, a provider of advanced business modeling solutions for Business Intelligence (BI), and Global 360, an enterprise software and services provider of business process management (BPM) and content management (ECM) solutions. Oldham helped build Global 360 and served as General Manager of Worldwide Client Operations. The Company grew to $100 million in annual sales and 2,000 customers in five years during Oldham’s tenure.
Kevin Sykes – Director of Business Development, Southeast Region
Kevin Sykes is responsible for DataBank's business in the Southeast. Kevin began his career in the document management industry over 20 years ago with Eastman Kodak, where he held multiple national level sales and marketing management positions over a span of 11 years. Additionally, he has held sales leadership roles with companies such as Compaq Computer Corporation and Adobe Systems, Inc., the most recent of which included responsibility for managing sales worldwide for Electronics For Imaging's (EFI) grand format printing division. Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Spanish from Eastern Kentucky University, as well as participated in the Executive MBA program in Finance & Accounting at Rice University.
Stephen E. Brooks – VP of Business Development,
Business Applications Services & Solutions
Stephen supports customers in selection, design and implementation of solutions to automate business applications commonly referred to as business services/back office. These include AP, AR, Purchasing, Human Resources, Benefits, Pension, Payroll, Legal (Contracts), etc. He combines leading enabling technology and the service capabilities of DataBank to achieve desired business process improvements and fulfill document management initiatives with critical transaction records that must be dealt with in these functions of the organization.
In twenty-two years of broad-ranging experience in the imaging and document management field Stephen has successfully implemented solutions across all industries for organizations of diverse size in both the private and public sectors, including those in the Fortune 500. Having installed imaging and document management systems since the early 1990’s, he has been consistently guiding customers in the transition from paper and analog environments to digital programs—and continues many long-term client relationships. Stephen is a member of AIIM, IAPP, is a Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA+) and has earned B.S., M.A. and MDiv degrees.
Craig Stevens – VP of Business Development, Healthcare
Craig is responsible for the strategy and growth of our Healthcare Business in North America. His role in growing this business involves direct interface with our national sales team and the development of major healthcare sectors and partners where applicable. Prior to joining our company, Craig held several key management positions for Eastman Kodak’s Health Imaging Division. He was responsible for the growth of the multi-million dollar Medical Distributor Business and prior to that he managed top and bottom line performance of Kodak’s $100+ million dollar medical service business. Under his leadership this group implemented innovative service strategies that brought double-digit growth and significant increases in operational performance and customer satisfaction. Craig received his BS from Florida State University.
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