Francis McMahon Joins Oce North America as Vice President of Marketing for Production Printing Systems Division

TRUMBULL, Conn., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Oce, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, today announced that Francis McMahon will join the Oce North America Production Printing Systems senior management team to serve as Vice President of Marketing, effective April 12, 2010. In this role, Mr. McMahon will oversee all aspects of marketing strategy and execution, with a focus on building the company's growing presence in the graphic arts market.

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As Vice President of Marketing, Francis McMahon will leverage more than 20 years of graphic arts-focused experience in business development, sales training and development, lead generation, marketing communications, and press and analyst relations for Hewlett Packard, Eastman Kodak and Xerox. Most recently, he served as HP Director of Marketing for the Americas, Graphic Arts where he was responsible for marketing activities supporting the HP Graphic Solutions business.

"We are very pleased to have Francis join the executive team of the production printing business in North America," said Mal Baboyian, president of Oce North America, Production Printing Systems.  "With his extensive graphic arts experience, I am confident that Mr. McMahon will help us expand our leadership in this strategically important market. We look forward to drawing on his expertise to provide our graphic arts customers with even more tools, programs and solutions to help them prosper and grow in an increasingly competitive environment."

Mr. McMahon's expertise includes extensive knowledge of the graphic arts market and participation in a number of industry groups. As an active member of the graphic arts community, he is a member of the National Association for Printing Leadership Board, the NYU Graphic Communications Management and Technology M.A. Program Advisory Board and the Electronic Document Systems Foundation. In 2007, he was inducted into the Soderstrom Society.

"I am excited to join the Oce North America Production Printing Systems executive team," said McMahon. "The company has a long-standing heritage of providing market-leading innovations that focus on solving customers' unique business problems.  Oce is respected throughout the industry for delivering outstanding production print leadership and a technologically advanced product line for high-volume environments. I look forward to applying my experience in the graphic arts business to help Oce extend its reach in this important market space. It's a tremendous honor to join the leadership team and to build on it success."

Mr. McMahon holds a Bachelor's Degree in business administration from San Francisco State University and an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is relocating from Boise, Idaho and will be based in Boca Raton, Florida at the Oce North America Production Printing Systems headquarters location.

About Oce

Oce is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services.  The company's solutions are based on Oce's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world.  Supporting the workflow solutions are Oce digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world.  Oce also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Oce employs around 22,000 people, with 2009 revenues of approximately $3.7 billion, operates in around 100 countries and maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania and Singapore.  Oce North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL; New York City; Boca Raton, FL; Salt Lake City, UT and Vancouver, BC.  North America represents over 37% of Oce's worldwide revenues, and employment is over 9,000.  For more information about Oce, visit www.oceusa.com.  Outside the U.S., consult http://global.oce.com.

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