Executive team

Martin Bailey works to analyze and understand the current and future needs for document and print workflows. This enables him to guide Global Graphics’ industry-leading document and printing technology. He represents Global Graphics on a number of industry bodies and standards committees including acting as the primary UK expert on the committees working on PDF/A, PDF and PDF/VT.

Martin has around 25 years of experience building, using, supporting and improving products for processing digital documents and the graphic arts industry in technical support, product management and programming as well as in consulting, and production environments.

Gary Fry was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 2008. He was formerly Managing Director of Adobe Systems Benelux, where he had worked since 2001. Prior to joining Adobe Gary held various sales and management positions in the IT industry including European sales manager for Catalyst Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise-wide IT solutions, head of industrial support sales for Oracle, and a nine-year period with IBM, initially in engineering and then in sales.

Graeme Huttley has been with the Company since 1999 and has served as the Company’s Finance Director since January 2001. In this position Graeme reports to Gary Fry, CEO and Alain Pronost, CFO. From the Company’s UK head office Graeme leads and manages the Company’s Finance, IT and Manufacturing teams and actively participates in various strategic projects. Previously Graeme was Financial Controller for Harlequin Ltd in Cambridge, UK and prior to that was a regional accountant for P&O Australia in Sydney.

Graeme is a qualified charted management accountant and is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Ron Iversen joined Global Graphics in 2004. He has over 30 years experience in the print imaging industry. In the early eighties he introduced the first laser printers to Digital Equipment Corporation and went on to become Vice President/General Manager of new Laser Printer Division for Data products (later Hitachi Koki, then Ricoh) and grew it to over $100M/yr within 5 years.

Positions as Sr. Vice President/General Manager for Datametrics and then President of Dycam followed before he moved to Agfa Monotype (now Monotype Imaging) where he was General Manager of their Color Imaging business.

Ron holds BSEE and MBA degrees from University of Connecticut, MSEE from New York University.

Elan Lennard joining the Company in 2010 as Director of Quality Assurance and Support and became Director of Product Management in June 2011. Prior to joining Global Graphics, Elan served as Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager at ARM, Ltd. Previous roles have included Manager of Quality Assurance and Acting Director of Software Development at Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment/Movielink and Manager of Quality Assurance at Hollywood Stock Exchange, as well as a member of the Quality Assurance Team at Microsoft Corporation and Manager of Technical Support at Now Software.

Alain Pronost joined the Company in August 1999 as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Pronost served as an audit manager at KPMG Audit from October 1990 to August 1999, including as the audit manager responsible for the Company since May 1996. Mr. Pronost has a degree in business administration and accounting from the Institut Commercial de Nancy (ICN). He was appointed a Director of the Company in June 2000.

Jill Taylor has been with the Company since 2001. She leads the marketing communications team and works with Alain Pronost the CFO on the Company’s financial and investor relations programmes. In 2005 the Company won the "Best Small Cap Investor Relations" awarded by the Belgian Association of Financial Analysts. Prior to joining Global Graphics Jill was a PR Director at one of the UK’s leading PR agencies.

Jill is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and has a Masters in English.

Neil Wylie joined Global Graphics (formerly Harlequin) in 1994. Neil currently manages all aspects of operations including commercial, contractual, patent and legal matters as well as HR matters and building infrastructure. Prior to joining Global Graphics, Neil was a Senior Commercial Manager working for British Telecom specialising in providing complex trading systems to stockbrokers /investment bankers in the City of London. Before joining British Telecom, Neil held various senior positions within the Philips NV Group of companies working on major worldwide mobile radio projects in both a purchasing and commercial management role. Neil has a BA (Hons) Degree in Business Studies.