Ken Freek Email & Phone Number

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

As a Business Improvement Specialist, I work with print service providers, print buyers and print industry suppliers to help them optimize business performance.Connecting For Results (CFR) is a team of senior print industry leaders with over 500 years of combined experience. Many have held executive leadership roles in large and mid-sized companies in North America as well as internationally. As experts in business strategy, sales, and operations management,the team is eager to share best practices that achieve win-win results for all parties.Services include strategic consulting, executive recruitment and coaching, and mergers and acquisitions. We develop high-level management strategies for long-term success, provide executive and sales recruiting to pair professionals with the right company. CFR also facilitates mergers and acquisitions that maximize outcomes for all parties.Connecting For Results helps companies as if they were their own. They provide organizations, buyers, people, associations, schools, etc. within the graphic communications industry with solutions, enabling all parties to achieve their goals and maximize results.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Responsible for the development and maintenance of the Canadian Print Scholarships Website and LinkedIn Page and working closely with the Executive Director and Board Executive team.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Responsible for the administration of the fund with a focus on relationships with scholarship students, graduates, educators and donors. The Canadian Printing Industries Scholarship Trust Fund (CPISTF), also known as Canadian Print Scholarships, is dedicated to providing scholarships for exceptional students in Canadian post-secondary print education programs. Since inception, hundreds of students have received scholarships and now enjoy successful careers in printing and related industries.To carry out its work, CPISTF relies on the generous support of the Canadian print industry.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Provided support to the sales team with development of customer subscription and contract programs. With Heidelberg Subscription, we provide you with access to a complete production system for industrialized print production.Heidelberg provides the machines, workflow, perfectly tailored consumables, expertise and service. And we make sure that the printing process runs optimally and stably with maximum availability.We take care of things such as service, ordering spare parts, selecting and providing consumables, and the continuous training of your employees. You pay a fixed price per month for an agreed print volume.What does this mean for you? Reliable planning and more time to dedicate to your customers and your business.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Responsible for the design and implementation of key development projects for this leading edge book manufacturer when it was still Webcom Inc.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Accountable for the sales support, pricing, promotion and distribution of graphic arts equipment and supply products through a team of product management professionals.Responsible for the development of strategic and tactical planning for product marketing.Responsible for the maintenance of mutually profitable relationships with suppliers.

Responsible for a team of direct marketers, telesales reps, product managers and customer service reps. The purpose of Heidelberg Direct is to develop, promote and sell new consumable, parts and service products with a focus on small format printing companies.

Responsible for the national supply chain and logistics organization including purchasing, inventory management, warehousing, 3PL providers and customer service.

Responsible for the complete and proper management of the Digital Sales and Service teams. Successfully recruited sales, marketing and service personnel to build the team. Tripled the Heidelberg Digital install base in 2 years.

Responsible for product management and sales support of the NexPress and Digimaster products including Canadian launch activities.

Responsible for the start up and ongoing management of the Digital Print Technologies department when the company was still Webcom Inc.From 1993, moved through other positions including Bindery Manager, Process Manager, Manufacturing Manager and Systems Developer

Accountable for the complete and proper management of the manufacturing facilities of a unionized hard and soft cover book manufacturer.

Responsible for the plant output, production quality, personnel and production cost of a major hard cover book manufacturer.

Responsible for the overall plant operation of this soft cover book manufacturer.From 1981, successfully completed numerous engineering projects prior to becoming Plant Manager.