Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

Executive Q&A: Canon

Published October 28, 2024

WhatTheyThink sat down with Francis McMahon, Executive Vice President, and Nicole Tully, Manager, Marketing Communications & Sales Enablement, Production Print Solutions of Canon for a wide-reaching conversation that touched on a Canon business update, how better targeted marketing campaigns can help save print, and education initiatives the company has been involved in to help attract the next generation to the printing industry.

The Magic Bus: Canon’s Francis McMahon on Leadership

Published August 7, 2023

We caught up with Francis McMahon, executive vice president at Canon Solutions America, Production Print Solutions, who spoke about his leadership style, how he came to adopt that style, what being a “corporate hippie” means, and how he is helping the next generation of company—and industry—leaders.

Executive Q&A: Nick Benkovich, Vice President Of Product Management at eProductivity Software

Published February 9, 2023

WhatTheyThink talks to eProductivity Software’s Nick Benkovich about how print businesses’ software needs are changing in response to changing customer needs.

Executive Q&A with Francis McMahon

Published October 5, 2022

We caught up with Francis McMahon, executive vice president at Canon Solutions America, Production Print Solutions, to talk about Canon’s growth areas, tease some new products and technologies, and explain how using the Grateful Dead as a business model has helped Canon succeed in the production inkjet market.

Canon’s Francis McMahon Discusses Recent Developments at Canon and the Print World at Large

Published February 7, 2022

Francis A. McMahon, executive vice president at Canon Solutions America, Production Print Solutions discusses the most recent additions to Canon’s equipment portfolio, the company’s approach to R&D, the 2021 edition of the thINK Forum, as well as his views on focusing on the customer during economic turbulence like COVID.

Executive Q&A: Canon Solutions America’s Francis McMahon

Published October 13, 2020

We caught up with Francis A. McMahon, Executive Vice President at Canon Solutions America, in the wake of the virtual thINK Ahead 2020 Conference to talk about how Canon’s customers are faring in the crisis, how Canon itself has responded, and how the crisis has demonstrated the wisdom of the Grateful Dead lyric, “Once in a while you get shown the light/In the strangest of places If you look at it right.”