Newkirk's Management Team

Ray Newkirk Ray Newkirk — Chief Executive Officer
Ray received his B.A. from Hamilton College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Current job responsibilities include product development, oversight of Newkirk’s 40-plus-person programming department, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and marketing.

Pete Newkirk Pete Newkirk — President
Pete received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.

His main responsibilities in the company are sales and product development.

Pete is a frequent speaker at industry trade associations, user groups, and national conferences (the SPARK National Conference, American Banker Association's Annual Trust Conferences, the Brokerage Affiliated Trust Companies Annual Conference, etc.).

James Salada — Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Jim received his B.A. from Niagara University and his J.D. from Union University, Albany Law School.

Current job responsibilities include operational management of Newkirk editorial, graphic services, quality assurance, and account management departments; corporate counsel; and chief executive officer of McKay Hochman Co., Inc., a Newkirk subsidiary. Jim is also Newkirk's Privacy Officer.

John Graham III — Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
John received his B.S. degree from the University of North Dakota and attended graduate school at the State University of New York at Albany.

John is a Certified Public Accountant. His current job responsibilities include managing all finance, insurance, tax, and accounting functions as well as buildings and facilities.

Robert Gatto — Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Bob received his B.S. from Russell Sage College.

Current job responsibilities include oversight of the company’s pre-press, press and bindery, fulfillment, warehousing and shipping operations. In addition, Bob oversees production administration, including production traffic management, purchasing, and administration of Newkirk's production management system.

Carter A. Andersson-Wintle — Senior Vice President Digital Printing and Process Improvement
Carter received his B.S. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Carter is responsible for the company's digital print production, data processing, and process improvement initiatives. Carter manages Newkirk's digital printing department which operates 5/24, and includes cut-sheet and continuous feed black & white printers and cut-sheet full color printers.

Kenneth Zinssar — Senior Vice President, Information Technology
Ken pursued a double major (Computer Science and Physics) in his four years at the State University of New York at Albany.

As Chief Officer in charge of technology, Ken is responsible for the management of Newkirk's 40+ programmers and maintains oversight of Newkirk's technical operations staff.

Jim Lawler — Senior Vice President, Sales Manager
Jim received his B.S. from Clarkson University.

Job responsibilities include management of the company’s nationwide network of regional sales representatives, Newkirk’s Telesales operation, Sales Support, and financial institution sales channels.

Donald Farren — Senior Vice President, Sales
Don received his B.S. in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Current job responsibilities include management of insurance, mutual fund, and other financial sales channels, and Relationship Management team oversight.

Christina Chang-Howitz — Senior Vice President,
Distributions Operations and Special Projects
Chris received her B.A. in Accounting from National Taiwan University and her M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Current job responsibilities include operational management of Newkirk Distributions Center (machine inserting, hand fulfillment, prospectus and warehousing), Portland Operations Center, and special projects such as Sas70 compliance, ePace production management system, and mergers/acquisitions.