KONICA-MINOLTA REORGANIZES FIELD SALES

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Konica Minolta Reorganizes Field Sales
NEW
YORK As part of its shift from analog to digital products, Konica
Minolta has reorganized its field sales organization into three groups,
East, Central, and West regions.”As we transform the company to focus
on our digital product portfolio, we need a sales organization that is
responsive to our customers changing needs,” Sales and Service
President Wayne Bell said in a statement.With an average of 20 years’
tenure with Konica Minolta, the new regional sales managers are Craig
Underwood (East), Pat Gear (Central) and Jerry Lewis (West).

Underwood,
who has served on the New England Newspaper Operations Association
board of directors, joined the company in 1989 as New England district
manager and was promoted to district manager for the east. Before
joining Konica Minolta he had several sales management positions with
graphic arts hardware companies.

Gear, who trained as an
electrical engineer, has a career with Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging
that spans 22 years, starting as a field-service engineer. He moved to
sales in 1998, covering Oklahoma and North Texas, and was promoted to
south district sales manager in 2001. A member of the Mid-America
Newspaper Conference, he runs the conference charity golf tournament,
which helps provide journalism scholarships at Pittsburg (Kan.) State
University.

Lewis joined the company in 1987 as a sales
representative, responsible for the Pacific Northwest. He was promoted
to district sales manager responsible for the 10 western states.
Recognized several times for outstanding sales management, Lewis
earlier was in production management and field-service engineering.

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October 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM