Craig Mertens is the president and CEO of Digital Art Solutions in Tempe, Arizona, and the co-creator of the Smart Designs Art System. Formerly a top-producing manufacturer’s rep in the imprinted-sportswear industry, Craig co-founded Digital Art Solutions in 1999, to provide software, hardware and training that assist in electronic art production. Craig is a CorelDraw certified trainer and a past member of the Corel Product Advisory Group for CorelDraw. Craig has been teaching art production seminars for industry trade associations and trade shows for the last six years. He is one of the industry's leading experts on the creation and transfer of electronic art. -Read more-

A 30-year veteran of the embroidery industry—with particular emphasis on embroidery digitizing—Helen Hart Momsen is the owner of Virginia-based Hart Enterprises. Widely published in the industry's trade press, Momsen also founded and moderates the “Embroidery Line” Internet chat group and contributes routinely to Printwear magazine.

John K Barker, Jr is currently the Sublimation Sales Specialists at Johnson Plastics. John is responsible for the coordination and management of over 20 educational workshops held yearly across the United States and Canada.

At the age of 21, Lon Winters was head of production for Ocean Pacific. He learned screen printing from the bottom up, starting his 20-plus-year career reclaiming screens. He has won nearly 50 international, SGIA, industry publication and FESPA awards and honors, has served 10 years as an honorary Golden Image judge, published numerous articles, led several industry seminars and workshops, and consulted on projects large and small throughout the world. Winters is the president of Colo.-based Print This, Inc./GraphicElephants.com, an international consulting firm specializing in technical advances, plant design, layout, troubleshooting, productivity, quality analysis and complete garment-embellishing solutions. -Read more-

Matt Woodhouse is the western regional Sublimation Sales Specialist for Johnson Plastics. Matt, having an extensive background in the consumer electronics industry, has spent the last five years helping develop and implement innovative digital decoration solutions for business of all sizes.

Micky Unsworth has been with Conde Systems for 14 years and currently works in the Wide Format Digital Imaging Div. Sales & Service

Raymond Chapman is owner and operator of Chapman Sign Studio in Temple, Texas. Raymond has been in the sign business for more than 45 years, creating custom signage for a diverse customer base. He also contributes a regular column on design principals for Sign & Digital Graphics magazine called "In the Studio".

Rick Williams owns Rick's Sign Company, a commercial sign shop in Longview, Texas. He has been in the sign industry since 1973 and has been a contributing editor to Sign & Digital Graphics magazine since 1986. Rick shares the knowledge he's gained from three decades of industry experience in his monthly and semi-monthly Sign & Digital Graphics columns and offers seminar participants a valuable selection of proven shop techniques that he's found to make the difference in small sign shop survival. Rick's seminars are the practical and common sense answer to the everyday challenge of running a small sign business.

Stephen L. Capper, owner of A-1 Awards, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a man of diverse interests who can speak with authority on a number of subjects. Besides being a professional speaker, he is a business operator, a regular contributor to A&E Magazine and a horse breeder. Stephen started an awards business at the age of 12 with a $186 loan from his mother. Since then, he has sold millions of dollars worth of products in national recognition programs and advertising specialties.

Troy Downey is the founder of Coronado, Calif.-based APE Wraps. His company specializes in custom, one-off wraps while also providing training videos and seminars on how to wrap vehicles.