Board of Directors 2025
Officers
As the visionary leader at NPI - Nameplates Inc., Brooke Hamilton spearheads innovation and excellence in the product identification solutions industry. With a passion for precision and a keen eye for detail, Brooke has transformed NPI into a trailblazer in high-quality, customized nameplate and durable decal solutions.
Founded over 50 years ago, NPI is a proud, three-generation, woman-owned business. Brooke continues the legacy started by her grandmother, followed by her mother, making their mark with resilience, empowerment, and dedication to excellence. Under Brooke's dynamic leadership, NPI has seen unprecedented growth, expanding its reach and refining its product offerings to meet the evolving needs of a global market.
Specializing in industrial nameplates and decals, NPI caters to heavy-duty industries including oil and gas, HVAC, aerospace, and OEM equipment. Recently, NPI has expanded its product line to include visual communications, further showcasing their innovative spirit and adaptability. In 2021, Brooke launched sticker918.com, an online sticker company serving both B2B and B2C markets, demonstrating her entrepreneurial drive and innovative spirit.
NPI's exceptional contributions were recognized when it was named the Tulsa Regional Chamber Manufacturer of the Year in 2016. Brooke's outstanding leadership and impact in the industry earned her the Women in Manufacturing Step Ahead Award, the Tulsa Business and Legal News Women of Distinction award, and she was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 by Tulsa People Magazine. NPI also received the OK Dream it Do it Award of Excellence in 2017.
Brooke has served on the PRINTING United Alliance's Board of Directors and Executive Committee since 2018 and is currently serving as the Board Chair. She also serves as a board member for the Port Authority, via a mayoral appointment, a Board Member of the Tulsa Country Club, and is a member of the TRC Manufacturers Council. She is also the Past Board President of GPI in 2020 and a Past Board Member of the Tulsa Sports Commission. Additionally, she is a Past Board Member of the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the Small Business Connection.
Lane Kathryn Hickey-Wiggins is the President and CEO at Douglass Screen Printers, Inc. dba DPRINT, a screen and digital printing company based in Lakeland, Florida. The firm was named in DiversityBusiness.com's Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses in the United States and Top 100 Diversity-Owned Businesses in Florida, is a Top Printer to the U.S. Government Publishing Office, and in 2012, was the first screen and digital printer in Florida to become "green" certified through Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP).
Mrs. Hickey-Wiggins is a member of the Polk County Kid's Tag Art Steering Committee and the Go For The Greens Foundation Board of Directors. She is currently serving as President of Explorations V Children's Museum Board of Directors. She is actively serving for the PRINTING United Alliance (PrUA) Board of Directors, PrUA’s Sustainability, Safety, Health and Personnel Advisory Council, and Co-Chair of PrUA's Women in Print Alliance Advisory Council.
She is an alumna member of the Women President's Organization and a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners CIRCLE.
Mrs. Hickey-Wiggins holds an AA in Business Administration from Polk Community College, a BFA in Art History from Savannah College of Art & Design, and an MBA from the University of South Florida.
Brian Hite is currently the CSO, Principal, & Cofounder of Image Options. Image Options is a global leader in the surface imaging, display, and visual communications industry. Image Options was the first large format digital facility in California to obtain SGP Certification. Prior to co-founding Image Options, he was a senior exhibit industry professional.
Roger began his career in 1986 with The Cincinnati Insurance Company. Hired to analyze and price insurance risks, he soon transitioned into the information technology world analyzing business automation needs and leading project teams. With these skills, Roger was appointed to lead their corporate in-plant journey from craft-based operations into one that embraced technology. Manual pre-press processes led to electronic creative services including design, wide-format printing, and digital photography; traditional printing presses were augmented with digital devices and most recently transitioned to inkjet printing. A widely respected and award-winning print operation resulted. Recognizing his co-workers were one of his greatest resources, career mentoring and succession planning became a staple of his leadership. Skilled management teams were created, ready to become the next generation of leaders. This intentional development led Roger to his current position as Assistant Vice President of Administrative Services and Facilities where he provides administrative leadership to the managers of print, mail, fulfillment, corporate records, security, and facilities.
Believing in giving back to an industry that helped shape his career, association work best provided that opportunity. A member of the Graphic Media Alliance Board of Directors since 2009, he has served as finance chair and board chairman and most recently as second vice chair for the Printing Industries of America Board. Both opportunities came with the privilege of being the first in-plant director elected. He also serves on the XPLOR International Board, focusing on providing education for transactional printers.
Roger enjoys family time with his children, grandchildren, and his sweetheart Lynne, especially boating together at the lake. An avid musician, Roger has been a church music worship director for over 35 years.
Dean also is an active participant in the industry through his involvement with various organizations that are responsible for providing Leadership and Direction to the Graphic Arts Industry. Currently he participates with Industry manufactures in a Customer Advisory Board role with both HP and EFI, which provides direction for future technological advances for the Digital Print industry.
Industry digital inkjet leader Scott Schinlever has re-joined Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in a new role as chief operating officer for EFI’s global inkjet business. Schinlever, has been charged with further expanding EFI’s market-leading industrial inkjet portfolio, while facilitating the analog-to-digital transformation throughout the industry for EFI’s current and future customers. Schinlever is responsible for all equipment, ink, and service solutions throughout the vast EFI™ portfolio in Display Graphics, Textiles, Packaging and Building Materials.
Schinlever, who most recently was president and COO of Automation Solutions for Tolland, Connecticut-based Gerber Technology, had a long career managing the marketing, growth and development of EFI VUTEk® printers and other EFI inkjet technologies. He joined the digital print industry in the late 1990s, working with the Xerox® Office Systems Group. In 2001, he took on a marketing position at the pioneering superwide-format printer manufacturer VUTEk, a company EFI acquired in 2005. Schinlever continued to rise through the ranks at EFI following that acquisition, becoming senior vice president and general manager for EFI Inkjet Solutions – the company’s largest business unit – before joining Gerber Technology in 2018.
Ford Bowers is CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, formerly the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA). PRINTING United Alliance is the combined entity of SGIA, Printing Industries of America (PIA) and NAPCO Media. Ford entered the printing industry in 2006 as an account manager for Miller Zell, a leading retail/POP print and service provider in Atlanta. He became the vice president and general manager of the Graphic Center at Miller Zell in 2008, leading the company through the transition from analog (screen and litho) to mostly digital print production. In January of 2016, he became the president and CEO of SGIA, now PRINTING United Alliance, where he continues to further the organization’s initiative of providing unparalleled education, events, government affairs, health and safety, research and development, leading publications and more; across all printing communities.
Directors
Mark Bailey currently serves as Sr Manager, Channel Sales Decorator & Digital Solutions Team, SanMar Corporation. Mark has worked in the promotional apparel industry since 1993 starting in the Premium and Incentive Industry until joining the SanMar family in 1998. His time at SanMar includes territory, regional, strategic, and channel sales roles. Since 2009, Mark has focused exclusively on working with decorators and manages the Decorator & Digital Solutions team.
Mark has three adult children and resides in New Hampshire. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI. His interests are in landscaping, building utilizing reclaimed materials, travel, boating and striped sea bass fishing when in season.
Jaime Herand is the Vice President of Graphics Operations of Orbus Exhibit and Display Group. Since joining Orbus in January 2005, she has played an instrumental role in Orbus’ growth to a market-leader in the display, exhibit, and event solutions industry.
In addition to her leadership responsibilities at Orbus, she sits on the PrUA's Women in Print Council. She is also a member of Chief, an organization specifically designed for senior women leaders.
Jaime has been widely quoted in several print and digital publications, including Sign & Digital Graphics, Exhibit City News, Sign Builder Illustrated, Printing News, My Print Resource, and Digital Output.
She holds a B.S. in Visual Communication from The Design School at Arizona State University.
Eric Kahle currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Visual Marking Systems, a custom graphics provider of OEM product identification, vehicle wraps, wide-format graphics, and decorated apparel, located in Twinsburg, Ohio. Eric manages the Sales and Customer Relations teams at VMS and is responsible for revenue growth, while optimizing the business’s bottom line. Eric joined the company in 2017 and is in his 6th year of a 10-year management trainee program which will prepare him to serve as CEO of the company upon his father, Dolf Kahle’s retirement. In addition to his responsibilities at VMS, Eric serves as VP of Operations of Badlime Promo & Apparel, VMS’s sister company, that specializes in screen print, embroidery, digitally printed solutions, and fulfillment. Since the company’s inception in 2018, Eric has managed production and administrative functions while working to develop a strong team to run the day-to-day operations of the business.
Eric graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a focus in management and finance. After college, he worked in operations at Bausch and Lomb and then in logistics. Eric is a PDAA Master Certified Installer, sat on the Next Generation Committee for SGIA as a co-chair, and received the Screen-Printing Magazine Rising Star award in 2019. Eric enjoys spending time with his wife, Brittany and their two-year old daughter, Rose.
Michael grew up in Kansas City, Kansas the son of a neighborhood grocery store owner. He is the youngest of five siblings. After graduating from high school, he moved to Houston, Texas to attend business school at the University of Houston. Graduating in 1988 he was hired by Consolidated Graphics and was the first member of the Consolidated executive training program. It was during this time that he met and married his wife Beth. After six years with Consolidated they moved back to Kansas City starting a position in sales at Trabon Printing Company. In 2004 he was promoted to Sales Manager and in 2008 was promoted to President, a role which he still serves today.
Trabon specializes in the printing of menus and other marketing collateral using custom build software for over 100 national restaurant brands. Michael has held the position of Chairman of the PIAMA Board as well as having a board position for the PIA national board. He also has a 21-year-old son, Ethan who attends the University of Kansas.
Academically Dr. Saur has split his time between finance and behavioral science. He holds a Ph.D. in International Business Development from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he concentrated on descriptive decision theory; a Master in Business Administration (concentration in finance) from the University of Notre Dame; and a Bachelor of Science (Accounting / Economics) from State University of New York at Fredonia. In addition he holds multiple professional accounting licenses (CPA and CMA).
Tim lives in Rochester, NY with his wife and three children.
Her team successfully produces and ships 60,000 marketing kits to stores across North America and internationally every month. In addition to helping GSP achieve G7® Master Qualification status for eight straight years, she has also led her team to wins of 12 prestigious Golden Image Awards for printing excellence from the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) Expo over the course of the past five years. She has held various positions at GSP including Account Executive, Customer Service Manager and Director of Human Resources.
Prior to GSP, she held management positions in foodservice and franchising organizations. Elaine has a BA in Communications from the University of Akron. In 2015, she was a featured speaker on the SGIA Expo’s “Production Dream Team” panel. She currently serves on the SGIA Women in Print Alliance advisory group and the Signs of Times' Editorial Advisory Board.
In 2016 she was a finalist for the Tampa Bay Businesswomen of the Year Award and was one of five women recognized by Big Picture magazine as a Women in Print Award winner also in 2016.
On June 4, 2018, M&R welcomed Danny Sweem as Chief Executive Officer, dutifully accepting the reins from M&R founders Rich and Elizabeth Hoffman. He brings 30+ years of insight and vision of the garment decoration industry. Before guiding M&R, Sweem served as Vice President of Rutland Plastics Technologies and Vice President of Nazdar SourceOne’s Textile Inks Business Unit. At Nazdar SourceOne, his responsibilities included the textile ink product portfolio, customer relationships, sales strategies, working with the technical support team, and vendor relationships.
Sweem oversees the creative and inquisitive minds that comprise the DNA of the M&R team. He believes in building high performing teams and making every day unique and exciting. It is this single focus of actualizing tomorrow’s future today that drives the core of the M&R mindset: innovative design, quality products, and unmatched customer service. From its beginning, M&R has been committed to leading the industry in the development of products that are technologically advanced, seamlessly integrated, and unequaled in quality. Today, M&R is the world’s largest manufacturer of screenprinting equipment.