NGI (National Graphic Imaging) - acknowledgements

Next week will mark the 3rd anniversary of ARC's purchase of NGI (National Graphic Imaging), and, wow, there have been a lot of changes in the ranks since NGI became an ARC-owned company.

ARC purchased NGI one month after the recession started, but who knew then that the recession had started and who had any idea that the A/E/C industry and the Reprographics industry would be impacted as harshly as what's happened because of the "Great" Recession.

NGI (National Graphic Imaging) was sold to ARC in December 2007. NGI was a powerhouse operation in Florida, with operations in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Ocala and plans to establish operations in South Florida. NGI also conducted operations in Atlanta. Even though ARC owned operations in Florida and Georgia before ARC acquired NGI, NGI was, evidently, a key target for ARC. Sometime after ARC acquired NGI, NGI absorbed into its operations the other ARC owned brands in NGI’s Florida markets, including TRS (Tampa, St Pete, Clearwater) and Orlando Reprographics (Orlando.) Not long after ARC acquired NGI, Greg Williams, President of NGI assumed the role of President of ARC’s Florida operations, including T-Square in South Florida.

As that saying goes, “that was then and this is now”, times have changed. Today, NGI is predominately managed by ex Ridgway’s employees (Ridgway’s is another reprographics enterprise ARC purchased, several years before ARC purchased NGI.) All of NGI’s senior management team (with the exception of Martha Korman, former CEO of NGI and who is now a member of ARC’s Global Accounts team) are gone from NGI and ARC.

I would like to stop for a minute to acknowledge the former senior management team of NGI, the management team that created a powerhouse operation in Florida. Without the tireless efforts and dedication of this management team, NGI would not have become a powerhouse operation in Florida. None of the following people are still working for NGI or ARC:
Greg Williams – President & Chief Operating Officer
Craig Bell – Chief Technology Officer
Craig Hubbard – Chief Financial Officer
David Fitz – Controller
Pete Vassos – Vice President, Production/Customer Service Operations
Bob Paschal – Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Danny Kane – General Manager of Imaging Products Group (IPG), division of NGI

I would further like to acknowledge the fantastic contributions made by other former members of the NGI team, people who are no longer with NGI or ARC, for these were the people who operated “on the front lines” and made it all happen:

Former NGI Sales team members who are no longer with NGI or ARC:
Esther Leonard (Tampa)
Marie Mosely (Tampa)
Maureen Michel (Orlando)
Terri Davis (Jacksonville)
Collin Zucharelli (Atlanta)

Former Production Center Managers who are no longer with NGI or ARC:
Alex Prieto (Tampa Westshore)
Reggie Jackson (Atlanta)
Eric Cardona (Orlando)
Danny Landon (Jacksonville)
Rob Faiella (St Petersburg)
Randy Faiella (Tampa Downtown)

And, Program Managers who are no longer with NGI or ARC:
Dave Shives (Color Program Manager, NGI)

And, of course, I can’t forget to acknowledge the fantastic contributions made by other members of the NGI team who are still with NGI:
NGI Sales team members who are still with NGI:
Dave Powers (Orlando)
JD Loudermill (Jacksonville)
Production Center Managers who are still with NGI:
Robert Posada (Ocala)
And, Program Managers who are still with NGI:
Craig Sterner (FM Operations Manager)

As you can see, very few of the “core of NGI’s team” are still with NGI. Time marches on. Changes happen.

This post authored by Joel Salus, former Senior Vice President and Chief Business Strategist (aha!) at NGI