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Louis J. Rupnik has a diversified operating career with imaging and service businesses as both an entrepreneur and a Fortune 100 executive. Until February 2004, he was Vice President of Strategy and New Business Development for the Commercial Imaging Group of the Eastman Kodak Company. In this role, he was responsible for strategy development for all digital printing, scanning, services, and satellite imaging business units within the Group. .
As a Senior Vice President and Corporate Officer at Xerox, he led the $400 million acquisition of XL Connect, a national systems integration firm, to help Xerox transition from a product company to a document solutions provider. Prior to Xerox, he was President and COO of SHL Systemhouse, a $1.4 billion provider of client-server systems integration and technology outsourcing services. He helped transform the little known Canadian public company into a global market leader and under his tenure, the company was merged with MCI in 1995 to form a technology-outsourcing powerhouse. Today, the company is owned by EDS.
Prior to SHL, Mr. Rupnik held senior operating positions at Moore Corporation, a $2.6 billion Canadian company (today, owned by RR Donnelley). As Group President, he led the transformation of the paper forms company into businesses involved in direct mail/marketing, business process outsourcing of statements for banks and brokerage firms, and on-line/print services for national real estate MLS firms. Under his tenure the businesses grew to $500 million per year in revenues and were the most profitable in the Corporation.
As President of Moore's real estate database services division, he transformed a printing business into the largest systems integration and outsourcing business in the North American real estate market with over 300 servers installed in metropolitan cities accessed by more than 250,000 PCs. He began his career at Moore when they acquired his real estate database and print company which was earning an industry record 35% EBT.
Early in his career, Mr. Rupnik was a co-founder of the New York City office of Korn/Ferry International following a brief career at Exxon Chemical Company.
Mr. Rupnik holds an MS in Industrial Administration ("Techno MBA") from the Krannert School at Purdue and a BS Degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is on the Board of Advisors at iQ Venture Partners and on the Board of Directors at Impact Medical Solutions, Inc. | 