Press Release

London, January 11, 2018

knk is pleased to announce the appointment of John Lawson as its UK Sales Director. John has been an active part of the publishing industry for more than fifteen years and has worked for several other publishing software suppliers including VISTA, Publishing Technology/Ingenta, and more recently Klopotek.
“I am very excited to be joining knk at a time when the publishing industry is seeking reliable, innovative, and futureproof solutions which are capable of fast adjustment to meet the rapidly changing requirements imposed through consumer demand and technology. knk is enjoying exponential growth and I am looking forward to introducing their excellent solution to the UK market,” states John Lawson.
John began his software career on a support desk for a London-based software company before progressing through a number of customer-facing roles until 1991 when he was appointed the Implementation and Training Manager at Heathmill Multimedia, a mid-size software company developing solutions for vertical markets including Magazine and Journal Publishing, Property Management, Recruitment and Financial Services.
The experience gained at Heathmill opened the door to a career in sales and he joined VISTA in 2004 as Business Development Manager, where he worked on major accounts such as Random House, Macmillan, and Hachette Distribution, and the British Medical Journal. In 2011, he joined Klopotek as UK Sales Director and got promoted to the role of UK Director with full regional responsibility within twelve months.
Knut Nicholas Krause, founder and owner of the knk group, and Sebastian Mayeres, Director of Worldwide Sales for knk both agree: “We are delighted that John has become a part of the knk-team. Sharing the dedication for the publishing industry and innovative technology, he is a perfect fit to our team and will help us not only to grow our UK business but also to further align our publishing software knkPublishing to perfectly meet the requirements of the UK market.”

About knk:
knk offers the only Microsoft Certified business software for publishers in the world. The software is based on the most modern Microsoft technologies, is available on Azure in the cloud, and also with native apps on iOS and Android. It is the only publishing software that has seamlessly incorporated financial functionality, budgeting and BI reporting, embedded Microsoft Dynamics CRM and a truly content-based architecture. knkPublishing is used by about 350 publishers in North America, Europe and Asia and based on the latest web and BI-technology.
knk is a member of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), FIPP (the global association of periodical media), BISG (The Book Industry Study Group), PPA (Professional Publishers Association UK) and several other international media specific groups and associations. knk is a Microsoft-Gold-Certified Partner (with five gold certifications: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Application Development, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Platform (SQL)).

002-2018 – knk Press