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Mr. Palmen was elected Vice President of the Company in February 1999. Mr. Palmen was chief operating officer at SPI Technologies Inc. a leading competitor of the Company from 1995 through 1998. Prior to SPI he was general manager production for Reed Elsevier from 1991 through 1995. He was also a member of the steering committee for global SGML implementation.
Before that he spent three years with United Dutch Publishers as head of sales and production and two years with a global management consultancy company as a strategic consultant.
He holds a M.B.A. degree (1979) in marketing economics and logistics management and a B.B.A. degree (1976) in economics and marketing both from Erasmus University in Amsterdam. | 