John Lacagnina

Mr. Lacagnina is founder and President & CEO of SoftPrint Holdings. SoftPrint Holdings, Inc. is the owner of ColorCentric Corp., prInternet, Inc. and Solidiphy, Inc. In September Mr. Lacagnina sold ColorCentric Corp., prInternet, Inc. and Picaboo.com to RPI of Seattle.

Before ColorCentric, Mr. Lacagnina co-founded and was President and CEO of Electronic Demand Publishing, Inc. (EDP) in 1992. Mr. Lacagnina led its’ growth to a multi-national document management company with five manufacturing facilities in the USA and one in Europe. Kinko’s acquired Electronic Demand Publishing in March 1997 and changed its name to Corporate Document Solutions, a division of Kinko's.

Prior to founding EDP, Mr. Lacagnina founded Entire, Inc. Entire developed the “worlds first” Postscript RIP and still provides print server solutions today. Mr. Lacagnina also founded Quality Measurements Systems and Excel Information Systems. Quality Measurements Systems was also awarded with the “worlds’ first” for the design and development of the worlds’ first portable digital micrometer in 1976. He has over 15 years’ experience in the computer industry and 27 years in the digital printing business. He holds patents in color xerography, digital measurement systems and digital laser measuring devices.

Mr. Lacagnina graduated with a BS degree Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he served on the Board of Trustees from 1986 -1995, and was president of the 85,000 member National Alumni Association. Mr. Lacagnina currently serves on the boards of other high-technology companies and has presented at many international conferences on document management and demand printing technologies. In 2001, Mr. Lacagnina was selected as one of twenty “Innovators” of Upstate New York to be part of the “Upstate Alliance for Innovation”. Mr. Lacagnina is a Board member of the newly formed Cross-Media Innovation Center at Rochester Institute of Technology.