Keith Nickoloff
Keith is the President of PathForward, a SBU of
Standard Register.
He was the founder, President and CEO of PathForward's
predecessor company, PlanetPrint, a web-enabled
Print-on-Demand, Fulfillment and Professional Services Company
that he grew to just under $30M in 2 years, leading
to the sale of most of PlanetPrint to Standard Register in July,
2002. Keith returns to campus for his second engagement as one
of our Guest Executives.
In 2000, Keith received the POD Pioneer of the Millennium Award,
recognizing him as one of the ten most influential people in
digital printing. He has personally led multi-million dollar
professional services engagements at
American Express,
Fortis,
UnitedHealth and
Sempra Energy. Additionally, he has conducted
extensive consulting work for Heidelberg, IBM Printing Systems
(acquired by
Ricoh)
and
IKON, and more than 20 independent digital print and
fulfillment companies.
Under his leadership at PlanetPrint, variable POD web solutions were built for companies such as 3M, Motorola, American Express, ING, Dairy Queen, iUniverse (Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Palm), and the University of Minnesota.
Keith has a total of 24 years in the printing and publishing
industry, 16 of those with
Eastman Kodak Company, where he rose
to the position of General Manager and VP of Office Imaging, a
$2B division. He was based in London, England as Managing
Director of Office Imaging's European Division and started
Kodak's Facilities Management operation, which ultimately grew to
$300M. Keith also served on the Kodak Brand Management and
Marketing Excellence Councils.
Keith is a graduate of
Michigan State University, a regular
speaker at major industry venues, and contributor to a number of
industry publications. He and his wife, along with their three
children, reside in Victor, NY, a suburb of Rochester, NY, and
are active in church, sports, music and farming.
Mr. Nickoloff was our guest on February 18, 2005 and November 9, 2007. Click here for some of his remarks.
The monthly Guest Executive Dinner series is sponsored by Houghton's business department for the purpose of increasing student exposure to marketplace professionals from various fields and service opportunities to be both salt and light after college.
