{"id":259,"name":"Bud Karakey","url":"","description":"Bud Karakey has 28 years of industry experience in creating and designing software solutions that help the imaging industries service department\u2019s productivity and performance increase. As one of the original founders of ADS Communications, he installed and supported the ADS products at hundreds of dealerships across North America. In March of 2004 ADS was acquired by EFI where Karakey became the director of service for the ADS division of EFI. In June of 2006 the ADS division was spun out of EFI with a new name of MWA Intelligence, where he was VP of customer support and later VP of new business development.\u00a0In March 2009, Karakey joined BEI Services as the VP of operations, where he continues to steer development of BEI Services (now NEXERA) products to help dealers increase proficiencies and profitability.\u00a0He was also a founding executive committee member of CompTIA\u2019s MPS community and in 2016, was recognized by ENX Magazine as a Difference Maker in the imaging industry.","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/author\/bud-karakey\/","slug":"bud-karakey","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c6f8aa58778985a6bb146d1b33837c0e?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c6f8aa58778985a6bb146d1b33837c0e?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c6f8aa58778985a6bb146d1b33837c0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}