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Inside InnerWorkings with Eric D. Belcher, COO

In our ongoing series looking at Print Management and Document Business Process Outsourcing (

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

In our ongoing series looking at Print Management and Document Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies, InnerWorkings in next on the list. Today we take a quick look at the company’s history and its financial performance before we hear what Eric Belcher, COO, can tell us about his company.

InnerWorkings has been in the news regularly: an IPO in August 2006, a secondary filing in January 2007, a "behind the scenes" article by Barrons, and InnerWorkings response. Add to that, quarterly and year end financial reports and another acquisition. All of this attention has brought the concept of print management and outsourced print procurement to top of mind.

This interview is the fourth in our series and there are two more in the works: Jason Cromack, AccessPlus (www.accessplus.co.uk, a TripleArc company and UK partner to Standard Register), and Toby Lavigne, HubCast (www.hubcastinc.com). To read the previous articles, follow these links:


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