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Skip Prichard (Ingram Content Group Inc.)

9:35am Tuesday, 02/23/2010

Keynote
Location: Broadway Ballroom (6th Floor)

The rapid pace of technology and its adoption by users has increased exponentially in the last few years. At the first O’Reilly TOC conference in June 2007, the Kindle was still on the horizon and mobile apps were just beginning to create buzz in the market. Fast forward just two years and ebooks are exploding in popularity, but do the current electronic carbon copies of print books truly embrace the promise of digital media? Success tomorrow depends on rethinking the digital future today. With emerging technologies, publishers can once again return to the core of creation and innovation – the core of publishing – by embracing true cross-media opportunities as a means to revolutionize the reading experience. Skip Prichard, the CEO and President of Ingram Content Group, will share with you examples of successful change drivers in business and everyday life as well as the lessons and insights he has learned during his career at the helm of top global organizations, including Ingram, LexisNexis, and ProQuest Information & Learning. Learn how to navigate the cultural and organizational changes already happening in our industry and reposition your publishing business for the future.

Sponsored by Ingram Content Group Inc.

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Skip Prichard

Ingram Content Group Inc.

Skip Prichard is President & Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group Inc. Ingram Content Group provides a broad range of physical and digital services to the book industry. Ingram is a leading wholesaler of trade books, spoken audio, magazines, and a leading provider of demand-driven printing and digital solutions for publishers. Ingram’s operating units are Ingram Book Company, Lightning Source Inc., Ingram Digital, Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Tennessee Book Company LLC, and Coutts Information Services. Ingram Content Group employs thousands of associates with operations throughout North America and Europe.

Prior to his appointment at Ingram Content Group, Mr. Prichard was President and Chief Executive Officer of ProQuest Information & Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving the education, government, and corporate markets with offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He led ProQuest through a successful turnaround – achieving double-digit growth and returning the company to profitability. Earlier in his career, Mr. Prichard held a number of executive positions with LexisNexis, where as Vice President of corporate and federal markets he provided business information and risk management solutions to the largest global corporations.

Mr. Prichard received his Bachelor of Science degree from Towson State University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.