Leadership Team

John C. Cronin III, CEO/Chairman

John Cronin has a proven track record in leading information management companies. His entrepreneurial career started when he introduced CAD/CAM technology to New Market Products in Wayne, NY, a market leader in production tooling. He was responsible for pioneering a profitable Geographic Information Systems business for Day & Zimmermann, LLC, a private company in Philadelphia, PA ranked 115 in Forbes magazine's listing of the top 500 private companies. At Day & Zimmermann, Cronin won the annual "Quality Performance Award" for his efforts in growing a fledgling business into a profitable enterprise.

In 1995, Cronin founded Digital Paper Corporation, a market leader in the document distribution market. Digital Paper was recognized as one of Fortune magazine's Cool Companies-Hot Ideas and ranked 303 on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, and 25 in Washington Techway's 2001 Fast 50.

In 2001, Cronin turned over the day-to-day management of Digital Paper to once again focus his efforts on an entrepreneurial venture. Cronin founded a global software distribution company, Global Engineering Solutions, a global provider of market leading engineering solutions. Cronin was introduced to PLP through his global customers, and the entrepreneur recognized a natural synergy.

Today, John Cronin recognizes the changing needs of AEC, and is leading the way with coming products that fill the Construction Information Management market gap, and provide his customers with new ways to serve AEC.

Please visit The Blueprint to read John's observations and opinions regarding the AEC commercial reprographics industry, and you are invited to follow John on Twitter.

Cecil Hornbaker, Vice President Engineering

Cecil Hornbaker is a 20-year industry veteran with extensive experience in document imaging and distribution systems. Before he began working for PLP, Cecil served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Digital Paper Corporation, an industry leader in online document distribution and imaging systems. As a key member of the executive team, Cecil oversaw development and quality assurance as Digital Paper evolved from an entrepreneurial start-up to one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America as rated by Deloitte & Touche.

Prior to joining Digital Paper, Cecil served as Technical Director for Image Machines Corporation, a developer of technical document management software and hardware/software interfaces for wide-format printer and scanners. Before Image Machines he held senior management positions at Vidar Systems Incorporated, most recently as Director of Engineering, providing imaging technology solutions to Xerox Corporation.

Cecil holds several US patents and has other patents pending.

Tim Moore, Vice President Product Management

Tim Moore joined PLP Digital Systems to lead the development of construction information management products. Tim recognizes the need for targeted technologies that better manage construction information as the industry moves to BIM, IPD and project teams change their workflow. As Portfolio Director of Products and Services for Océ Technologies, Tim led the development of Océ Plan Center, Océ Distribution Center and Océ Repro Desk. Prior to Océ, Tim served as Senior Product Manager for Autodesk and Buzzsaw.com.

Colleagues and partners turn to Tim for his extensive knowledge of AEC and the companies who serve them. He is both a strategic thinker and a practical problem solver.

Joe Mooring, Vice President

Joe Mooring has worked side-by-side with PLP’s customers for ten years to develop products that meet their needs, and support them in their use. His commitment to PLP’s customers and end users is clear, and helps us shape better products.

Starting from an education in engineering, Joe began his career in systems consulting for Accenture before moving to sales and channel management for technology companies like 3D Systems and Framework Technologies. As Director of Channel Marketing for Digital Paper, Joe first began working with John Cronin to develop software to manage and share construction and engineering drawings. Their work together there gave Joe tremendous insight into the needs of AEC and the print providers who serve them. Since joining PLP, Joe has worked to build and improve operations, product design and sales, based on the needs of the channel partners he serves.

Ken Sandlin, Director of Product Management

Ken Sandlin brings to PLP a first-hand understanding of the architects who our customers serve. Ken made the jump from practicing architect to IT a dozen years ago, and brings together those common approaches in his product development work:

• Breaking down complex installations into actionable parts
• Visualizing concepts in 3D
• Problem solving
• Project management

Ken understands the needs of our partners and users at every step: he has worked as Director of IT for Thomas Reprographics as well as served as the Technology Manager, CAD Manager, and Project Architect for Brand + Allen Architects. Ken is a true partner to our customers and their end customers, seeking answers to real challenges. He can translate complex technology into solutions for the business.

James Scalio, CTO

After nearly 25 years in software development, Jim Scalio leads PLP Digital Systems' product design with business vision and a clear plan. Jim began his career as a software developer responsible for modeling and simulation systems and moving into real-time detection and tracking systems, working for government agencies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. From there, Jim began working for Landmark Systems as the lead architect for the front and back end architecture of an Enterprise Performance Management product suite, and later for SingleShop, responsible for building out an ecommerce shopping site. His work at Digital Paper with John Cronin and Joe Mooring cemented his reputation for "getting things done", rapidly developing an award-winning document management solution.

At PLP, Jim is responsible for driving the development of our latest construction information management solutions and introducing new ways for printers to manage the production environment for improved profits. His tremendous breadth of programmatic skills allows him to be a truly agnostic developer, creating vendor neutral, flexible solutions that fit customers' environments.