Dscoop Steering Committee Members

David Minnett
Dscoop Board Member
Chairman of the Dscoop Asia-Pacific Regional Board of Directors

David is the Managing Director of Group Momentum, one of Australia’s leading digital printer service providers. Momentum has grown into a diverse business offering an integrated communications consultancy with a strong involvement in relevant and emergent technologies. Since its inception in 2009, Momentum’s direct marketing division MDDM has emerged as a market leader in building and delivering a range of innovative B to B and B to C web2print storefront-based solutions for its clients across Australia.


Eric Hawkinson

Dscoop, USA
Eric Hawkinson is the founding Executive Director for the Digital Solutions Cooperative (Dscoop). Serving in this capacity since 2005, Eric partners with the Dscoop Board of Directors to establish the organization as the premier HP Graphic Arts User Group. Under Eric’s direction, Dscoop has grown to 6,000 members worldwide and hosts annual conferences around the world.


Yukinori (Yuki) Okamoto

FIS Corporation, Japan

Yukinori "Yuki" Okamoto is a Partner and Executive Managing Director of FIS located in Tokyo, Japan. FIS, founded in 1981, is the premier in- plant, web2print and digital printing company in Japan. With his in-depth understanding of IT business development strategy, FIS has become one of the leading digital printing service provider. Yuki is a digital printing applications thought-leader in Japan and is influential in industry groups and hardware manufacturing marketing committees.


Sunny Phang

ProtectPrint Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Sunny Phang is the Managing Director at Protect Print Group. The group is into security printing, data management, personalization printing and marketing solution specialist. It offers a total comprehensive package from concept, event management, cross-media social marketing and through to logistics. Coming from a marketing background, Sunny adopts and keeps abreast with current trends and applications. In 2000, he was conferred the PJK by The Sultan of Selangor for ‘Meritiorious Service Medal’. He is the current Deputy President/IPP of The Selangor & Federal Territory Chinese Printing Presses Assocation, Chairman of Leng Teng Keong Association and also sits in the Federation of Malaysia Manufacturers (FMM) working committee.


Christian Soesano

Subur Printing, Indonesia

Christian Soeseno Boenarso is the Head of Digital and Marketing at PT. Suburmitra Grafi stama, better known as Subur Printing. Christian started his career in sales in 2001 and later set up Kisah Personal Publishing, a high-end coffee table book division in 2004. Kisah PP is the first photo book company in Indonesia. Subur Printing is a 33-year-old family business that handles both commercial offset and digital printing, and employs over 350 staff.


Fred Poonawala

Comart Lithographers, India

Fred Poonawala is a full time Director at Comart Lithographers Ltd. — one of the most modern prepress houses in the country with production centers in Bombay, Bangalore and Delhi. Fred is the President of The Bombay Master Printers Association, the premier institute representing the best of the printing industry in Bombay. He also represents his association at the All India Federation of Master Printers and was the Vice President – West in 2009.


LingYun (Nick) Wang

Shanghai Linyeah Digital Printing, China

Nick started his digital printing adventure in 2003 when he acknowledged that the trend in digital printing would gradually replace traditional printing. He built up “Shanghai Linyeah Digital Printing” and led the business with innovative technology development. Prior to that, he spent 5 years on OA products business development.


Randy Bice

RPI, USA - Dscoop North America Liaison

Randy Bice is the Vice President of Operations at RPI. Randy embraces technology and sits on boards for numerous industry associations. Randy received his bachelor's degree in mechanical systems engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., and his MBA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a 16-year member and Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.