Idealliance Acknowledges Industry Achievement in 2019 Annual Awards

The Alexandria, Virginia-based International Digital Enterprise Alliance, better known as Idealliance, announces the winners of its annual industry achievement awards.

The company’s “Circle of Excellence Award” was established in 2005 to recognize extraordinary contributions to the work of Idealliance, as it seeks to transform the graphic communications industry. According to the nonprofit, the winners advance Idealliance innovations for the industry through specifications, standards, certification, training and leading practices by working across all partners in the print and media supply chain, from creators and service providers to brands, suppliers and technology manufacturers. This year’s honorees, joining the 47 others who have been recognized over the course of the award’s lifetime, include:

• Andy Bullock, special projects, Sony Interactive Entertainment America
• Brian Keith, senior PM-print & color management-packaging and content, Microsoft
• Lisa Bowes, manager, web track division, Intelisent

Idealliance says the “Donald A. Mumma Award” is the highest award of distinction that Idealliance presents in distribution and mail supply chain and technology. The award is named for Donald A. Mumma, U.S. Postal Service mailing requirements manager at the Washington D.C. headquarters, who was committed to customer focus and industry dialogue in the late 1970s. The nonprofit says he saw the advantage for mail supply chain partners and the U.S. Postal Service to work together and was instrumental in launching the collaborative approach between Idealliance and the U.S. Postal Service. That award was founded in 1985, and over its history 36 industry innovators have been recognized.

The Honoree in 2019 is Angelo Anagnostopoulos, vice president of postal affairs, GrayHair Software.

“Angelo’s actions and involvement demonstrates his ability to consider and improve the entire mail supply chain,” says Rose Flanagan, manager of postal strategies and logistics, Data-Mail Inc., and the 2018 Mumma Award Honoree. “He gives of his knowledge and expertise, provides insights and the impact of USPS programs to the mailing industry, the USPS, oversight, and regulatory organizations. At the end of the day this quiet unassuming person closes his computer, changes into his leather jacket, straps on his helmet and motors off on his motorcycle.”