Donald Carli is the founder and President of Nima Hunter Inc. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing research and strategic planning. He is a consulting editor and contributor to numerous publications in the US and Europe including Actuel Grafisk Information, Ethical Corporation magazine, Graphic Communications World, PrintMedia magazine, Print On Demand Business, Printing Impressions and Booktech magazines. He has written numerous articles on marketing and marketing strategy, corporate social responsibility management, knowledge management, e-learning, environmentally preferable procurement and recycling. He has also written extensively on trends, issues and technologies related to publishing, printing, and imaging such as variable data printing, content management, color proofing futures, print on demand digital printing and wireless imaging.

Mr. Carli has been a featured speaker or keynote presenter at major conferences in the US and Europe including Seybold Scandinavia, Siggraph, Spectrum, PrintMedia, TAGA, and GraphExpo. He was recently invited by California Polytechnic University to present a lecture titled "Sustainability and The Greening of Print" in the 2002 distinguished scholar lecture series "Communication Technology: The Next 50 Years."

From 1991 to 1993 he was co-founder and Technical Director of the HiFi Color Project, a landmark effort to pinpoint and stimulate demand for advanced color printing technologies that was supported by over 40 companies including Adobe, AGFA, Apple, DuPont, Kodak, Fuji, Scitex, and Zanders USA.

From 1981-1986 he held various management, marketing research and strategic planning positions including Strategic Planning Manager, Technical Director, and Production Operations Manager of the Crafton Graphic Company of New York. He served as a market and technology analyst for Crafton's parent company, SanomaWSOY of Helsinki Finland, a diversified communications firm that is the largest publisher and printer of magazines, newspapers and related products in Scandinavia. SanomaWSOY's five divisions cover a broad field, from news, information services and printing, to books, learning solutions, and entertainment.

From 1976 through 1980 he collaborated in the publication of limited editions as technical director and Master Printer collaborating with artists including Joseph Albers, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney. From 1974-1976 Don completed an apprenticeship to Master Printer Kenneth Tyler and was employed as a Master Printer at Tyler Graphics in Bedford New York.

Mr. Carli received his BA in English Literature and Fine Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1974. He completed studies toward an MA in Visual Arts and was a graduate teaching assistant at Hunter College of the City University of New York from 1977-80.