Cheryl Kahanec is an industry-recognized expert in digital technology and solutions as well as a frequent speaker who has been featured and quoted in many leading industry publications. She has worked with many major companies in the selection and development of products and services for the marketing communications industry, including HP, IBM, Canon, Landa Digital Printing, Kodak, and Xerox.

WTT: Cheryl, you are well-known in the industry as a respected expert in digital printing. You were a very early pioneer in variable-data printing and have worked with some of the most forward-thinking companies in the industry and were recruited in 2018 into the role of CEO at Quantum Group. Can you talk a little about how you got from where you started to your role today?

Cheryl Kahanec: We are all an accumulation of our experiences. I started out by getting a job as a typesetter, and I didn't even know what that meant at the time. But that gave me an entry to an industry that I had no idea would take up the next 40-plus years of my life, and I would come to be a part of an industry that I absolutely love. I have worked for some great companies, and I have had wonderful mentors. Diane Romano was an early mentor and I still get advice from her to this day. So yes, I've had so many great experiences and opportunities and I've had some that haven't worked out so well. But good or bad, they all taught me something. And I think that's what you must do - learn from every experience you have.