Gene is the CEO of BarkerBlue Digital Imaging Inc. a document management and print company servicing the San Francisco Bay Area where he has been since 1979. In 2000 BarkerBlue became the first reprographics co. in Northern California to successfully host an online planroom for the AEC industry. This changed the paradigm for his peers in the reprographics industry as it forced them to expand their core competence from printing to digital document management. He was instrumental in developing the technology into a system-wide standard within ReproMAX the world�s leading Network of wide-format technology experts which allowed the organization to become the first successful distribute-and-print network of building plans and specifications.
Gene is a past Chairman of ReproMAX and still sits on its Board of Directors. He has been a member of the IRgA (International Reprographic Association) since 1980 and a member of PIA (Printing Association of America) since 1984. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce.
Gene graduated from Stanford University with a BA in English Literature in 1979. |