Over the past 30 years, Ernie has grown Crawford Technologies from a basement startup into a leading international technology company with offices in Toronto, New York, Boston, Fort Collins and London. Crawford Technologies has been listed as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies for the past five years by Canadian Business PROFIT Magazine, has been on Deloitte’s North American Technology Fast 500™ and has been recognized by Branham300 as a top Canadian technology company.

Today, Ernie’s vision and expertise are the driving force behind Crawford Technologies.

Early in his career, Ernie built successful marketing and support organizations within Xerox Canada. He has consulted with many prominent companies in the industry including IBM and Xerox.

Under Kemal Carr’s direction, Madison Advisors has established a market niche as an independent analyst and market research firm that addresses the needs of the electronic and print customer communications management (CCM) marketplace. The firm provides retainer and project-based strategy services designed to assist clients with technology selection and alignment and business process optimization decisions.

Kemal is regularly sought out by some of the leading output technology publications to write about or comment on the industry’s key issues and topics, including articles on the impact of eDelivery and multi-channel delivery, advancement in communication technologies, and electronic document presentment. He is also asked to speak at trade events, including key sessions at Xplor’s global conference, DOCUMENT Strategy Forum, Inkjet Summit, and numerous vendor trade events.

In 2017, Carr received the Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award from Xplor International at its global conference. The award was in recognition of Carr being one of the industry’s most respected resources and thought leaders who is known for his insight, vision and passion.

Richard Huff brings extensive experience managing market and product research with the goal of providing excellent advice on best practices and technology recommendations for printing/mailing operations. He conducted numerous research studies on print-related software, operational efficiency, and market pricing.

Prior to joining Madison Advisors, Richard was a senior analyst with Doculabs, where he was lead analyst for end-user and vendor consulting engagements. Huff also had eight years of experience at Uarco, Inc., a manufacturer of customized business forms and labels.

While at Uarco, Richard was a member of the launch team for Uarco Impressions, one of the first distributed short-run color print operations. Impressions twelve print facilities leveraged high speed network communications to distribute and print personalized documents at the facility closest to the recipient.

Richard earned a B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana