Michael Shaw, Don Razinsky, Steve Andrikut
Michael Shaw, Don Razinsky, and Steve Andrikut have been slated for the IRgA Board of Directors.
Three veterans of the reprographics field are poised to join the IRgA Board of Directors at the September 18 board and general member meeting in Chicago (click here for info about that meeting).
Michael Shaw, who runs New York’s Central Blue Print and Jamaica Blue Print with his brother Peter, has been slated as a regular director. Don Razinsky, owner of GraphX Digital Services in Shreveport, Louisiana, has also been slated as a regular director. Steve Andrikut, North American sales director for Image Access LP, has been slated as the vendor director.
Kim Long, president of Reprodux in Canada and immediate past-president of IRgA, will leave the board after the September meeting. Tim Horn, vice president of sales for KIP and the current vendor representative on the board, will also depart the board after the September meeting.
One new board position was created, so after the September meeting, the board will consist of six regular members and one vendor member.
Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw and his brother Peter took over the family blue print businesses, Central Blue Print and Jamaica Blue Print in New York, in the mid 1980s. Shaw had trained in the medical field, but joined the family firm to implement its first IBM System 36 and AS 400 accounting system.
Over the years Shaw has helped bring digital services into the business and to its customers. He has served as a technical advisor to the Library of Congress (Geography and Map Division), Vanderbilt Museum, and Marshall Field’s Estate. His work with ABN AMRO to develop and provide custom onsite/offsite secure data access for their industrial use clients gives him unique insight into the world of data and information technology.
Shaw also serves as senior vice president of the digit group, a technology company that designs and builds Smart Cities.
Shaw has extensive experience among reprographics associations. He is a past IRgA president and a Bukovsky Award winner. He also is a past president of the Eastern Regional Reprographics Association, and is currently president of the Eastern Reprographics Association and vice president of the Reprographics Services Association.
Don Razinsky
Don Razinsky launched GraphX Digital Services in the summer of 2014, after a career in reprographics that started with Charrette in Boston in the late 1960s. His longest stretch in the industry was 33 years at Ridgways, where he managed five different locations. He retired from ARC, which acquired Ridgways in 2000, in 2011.
GraphX Digital Services, located in Shreveport, Louisiana, provides traditional reprographics services as well as wide-format color, vehicle wraps, wall murals, window clings, and other services.
Razinsky, a Vietnam veteran, is heavily involved in his community. He is a past president of the Associated General Contractors chapter, vice president of the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation, chairman of Caddo Fire District 6, police chief of the town of Bossier, board member of the Gulf to the Pines Girl Scouts, and a board member of several other organizations.
Read a 2014 article in IRgA Today about Razinsky by clicking here.
Steve Andrikut
Steve Andrikut is responsible for reseller business development in the United States and Canada for Image Access, a scanner manufacturer based in Wuppertal, Germany. Andrikut joined Image Access in 2010, after a two decade career as a sales representative and business development manager for 3M, Lanier Worldwide, Océ, and Bell and Howell’s scanner division.
Andrikut has been a guest speaker/presenter at several industry conferences; his presentations have focused on alternative markets and applications for generating new revenue streams for imaging businesses.
“Reprographics companies will need to be flexible and strive to provide a total solution for their customers, and the IRgA needs to support these efforts with its leadership,” he says.