01.03.2023
priint Americas introduces new Global Director of Presales and Enablement David Heston
With the experience of David Heston, priint Americas targets further growth in customer and partner projects
March 2023 – This month, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) graduate David Heston joined print Americas in the position of Global Director of Presales and Enablement. In this role, David will be leading priint presales efforts as well as rolling out new processes and systems to enable customers, partners, and employees who leverage priint technology on a global basis.
The expertise of David Heston is multifaceted. David brings to priint a wealth of experience in the PIM and print worlds having worked for PIM vendors, PIM system integrators, and implementing print solutions around the globe. Within the print space, David spent several years managing print operations for Pioneer and Moody’s Investors Service in Tokyo, Japan. In the PIM space, he served as a Business Solutions Architect and Sales Engineer at inriver, after which he joined Contentserv as the company’s first Solutions & Presales Manager focused on North American customers. This experience was followed by several years working with multinational customers as Lead Consultant and Product Strategy & PXM at global systems integrator Valtech.
David is fluent in Japanese and French in addition to his native English.
“I am extremely excited to have David join my team. His experience with PIM Having worked with him for several years as a partner I know he will be a huge asset to our organization not only here in the Americas but around the world. “- Jonathan Dropiewski, CEO, priint Americas.
About priint Group / WERK II
Founded in 2003, priint Group / WERK II is one of the world's leading software providers of solutions for bringing product data to life. We believe there are two primary factors of successful marketing communication: 1.) the availability of information "on demand" and 2.) the "relevance" of the content. In terms of channel selection, the priint Group sees the combination of digital and offline measures as a key factor for a truly successful customer experience. The priint:suite brings digital transformation and automation to the creative lifecycle: whether as a scheduled or on-demand publication, standardized or personalized, in one or fifty languages.
To put it into perspective: companies that rely on the priint:suite achieve an increase in publishing efficiency of up to 80%.
The priint:suite can be operated in both the company's own data center and in a private cloud environment operated by the priint Group / WERK II.
About the priint:suite
...the comprehensive solution for today's publishing challenges.
Today, more than ever, the combination of digital and print publications is crucial to telling a consistent story across all channels. To date, more than 500 customers and 100 partners rely on the priint:suite to convey these stories across their publishing channels with the same consistent quality. With the priint:suite, it is possible to automate publishing processes to be ready for any and all modern needs or requirements. By utilizing the various components of the priint:suite, companies can integrate a wide variety of data sources (such as ERP, PIM, MDM, DAM, CRM, CMS web stores or MRM systems) to make data usable for any type of publishing project with our plug-ins for Adobe® InDesign®, InDesign Server and Illustrator®, among others.
Thanks to this integration and the flexibility of the priint:suite, the same possibilities that are indispensable in digital communication today are also available for classic publications. The modular structure and full scalability of the priint:suite enable cost-effective and successful automation of publishing processes for companies of all sizes.