Statesville, NC.: Continental Grafix USA, Inc. a leading manufacturer of specialty, adhesive-backed media for the graphics, transit, and label markets, welcomes Joe Leddy as Director of Sales for the United States and Latin America. Effective immediately, Leddy will be responsible for sales growth in the Southeast, Southwest, Western United States, and Latin America, as well as managing strategic partnerships nationally.

Leddy brings 20 years of B2B sales experience, the last 17 of which have been dedicated to the large format graphics industry. Leddy’s prior experience selling a wide variety of digital media products as well as equipment will lend itself to provide tremendous value for both Continental Grafix and their customer base. Leddy earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, and his MBA from Loyola University, Chicago. He resides in the southwest suburbs of Chicago with his wife, Karen, and their 13-year-old son, Caden. As an active volunteer in his community, Leddy coaches youth sports and participates in fundraising activities for Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

“I am excited to welcome Joe to the Continental Grafix USA family. His depth of wide format product knowledge, business acumen, and years of investment in industry relationships will be an incredible asset to the company and to our partners in achieving our goals,” commented Michelle Kempf, VP of Sales & Marketing.

“To say that I’m happy to join the Continental Grafix USA family is an understatement. The high quality, and often unique, products that they’ve brought and continue to bring to the marketplace give our distribution partners and their customers real solutions that will help them increase revenues. I’m looking forward to putting my knowledge to work and helping customers solve problems. Whenever you can help a customer solve a problem, it keeps their business evolving and growing, which is the name of the game,” commented Leddy.

Joe Leddy can be contacted by email at [email protected].