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Simon De Groot has been covering the office products and office furniture industry for over 25 years, initially for NOPA as its communications director and most recently, as editorial director of OfficeDEALER magazine and now as editor-in-chief of OFDealer. "People do best what they like doing and I like writing about the innovative marketing, disciplined management and superior execution of today’s office furniture dealers. Putting it simply, today’s dealers have a great story to tell and I'm going to be working as hard as I know how to tell it!"

For the past twelve years, Alicia has worked as a writer and editor for publications serving the office products and furniture dealer industries. Her experience includes five years as editor of Office World News magazine when it was owned by BUS Publications. From 2001 to 2008 she served in a variety of professional capacities with Imaging Network, including as a writer and editor for its three magazines – Office World News, imageSource and Office Furniture & Design before coming to OFDA as the Director, Marketing & Communications.

Since 2005 Chris has served as President of the Office Furniture Dealers Alliance (OFDA), the publisher of OFDealer and the trade association that represents and serves independent dealers of office furniture and other interior furnishings in the United States and Canada, as well as their manufacturers and other industry partners. Previously, Chris served in a variety of executive roles in other industry organizations, as a management consultant, with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor, and on the staff of former U.S. Representative James Leach of Iowa, his home state.