Mr. Bannor graduated (BS Ed) from Northern Illinois University in 1973 and began his career in digital communications in 1980, after a number of years teaching at a Chicago Public high school.
He has held sales, marketing and product management positions with a number of industry leaders including, Exxon, Philips NV, Moore Business Forms, FormScan, Johnson & Quin, PrintSoft, Firstlogic, Bell + Howell, PrintSoft and GMC Software. He joined OBRIEN in December 2012.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Bannor was involved in advancing the concept of the Automated Document Factory and sold ADF hardware and software to clients such as the United States Postal Service, large banks and insurance companies and the United States Treasury Department.
He has sold document composition and post processing software for over 20 years. He has been a frequent speaker at industry events and has contributed articles to publications such as eDocument News, Outputlinks and the Xploration Journal.