M.A. in Graphic Communications Management and Technology

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

Michael Cunningham is the chief executive officer of the Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3). He is the founder and CEO of DG3’s predecessor, the once NASDAQ-listed Cunningham Graphics International, Inc. Cunningham was a clinical professor of entrepreneurship at the San Diego State University College of Business Administration and a research professor from Industry in Cal Poly’s Graphic Communications program. He is currently an adjunct associate professor at New York University. Cunningham is the recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, the British American Chamber of Commerce Trans Atlantic Entrepreneurial award, and the Association of Graphic Communication’s Power of Communications award. While at San Diego State, he received two Outstanding Faculty awards. Cunningham received his master’s degree and Ph.D. from New York University and specializes in international business strategy, organizational culture, business planning, and entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of The Three Forces of Empowerment (2007).  He has recently been named as an Alumni Trustee at New York University.

BRUCE LEIGH MYERS

"Teaching is really about diffusion of information: the role of the professor is to facilitate the process of that diffusion. Subsequently, students can then build upon or even question the foundations of that subject matter."

Dr. Bruce Leigh Myers holds a Ph.D. from New York University's Center for Graphic Communications Management and Technology, where he also currently teaches as an adjunct instructor teaching both graduate courses in Color Reproduction and Quality Control. A 20 year printing industry veteran, Dr. Myers has held various laboratory, sales, technical, management, training and education positions for Agfa Corporation, New York University, Kean University, and X-Rite Incorporated.

Currently, he works as an Account Executive for X-Rite, Incorporated and represents their graphics products in the Mid-Atlantic region. Recently, he has traveled extensively in Asia, where he has given several speaking engagements to industry groups in The People's Republic of China, including the Printing Universities in Shanghai and Beijing, the Advanced Printing Technology Centre (APTEC) in Hong Kong, and the China Print Exhibition in May of 2005.

In North America, Dr. Myers has been a speaker on the topic of quality management, color control and educational issues for the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) Management Institute, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF), the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), the Association of Graphic Communications, The International Graphic Arts Educators Association, and Flexo Canada, as well as International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, the Susquehanna Litho Club in Pennsylvania and the Twin Cities Litho Club in Minnesota. He has written a regular column on education issues in the printing industry for The Printing News for over four years, and has published articles in Flexo Magazine, GATF's Sheetfed Quarterly, Flexo Canada, Conversion, NAPL's Management Quarterly, and High Volume Printing magazine.