Rockville, MD -- October 7, 2014 -- Contex, the world's leader of wide format scanning and imaging solutions, today announces the appointment of Shea Vara to Director of Channel Sales for Contex Americas. Vara will drive business excellence at Contex, and will work closely with its distributors to make the company’s award-winning scanners easily accessible to its target audience. This includes the reprographics and copy shops, GIS and AEC, government, manufacturers, and fine arts markets.

Vara brings to Contex more than 20 years experience in technology, having worked at Capitol Office Solutions, a Xerox company, OkiData Americas, and Ricoh Americas Corporation. She has a proven track record for applying her experience in sales and marketing to create new business, while increasing sales and raising profits.

"Contex is in a significant growth period, and our scanning solutions are being installed at a rapid pace. Shea's high level of expertise will help us to manage this growth and ensure that we continue to meet our customers’ demands for wide format scanning solutions,” comments Steve Blanken, General Manager, Contex Americas.

"Contex is a leader in its class, and I am excited to help the company grow," comments Shea Vara, Director of Channel Sales, Contex Americas. “I look forward to working with the distributor channel and helping them to achieve their goals.

As Director of Channel Sales, Vara will be responsible for helping distributors solve customers’ varied wide format scanning challenges by using Contex's range of solutions. The scanning solutions address every workflow requirement, from high volume documents to fragile artwork and photos.For more information, contact salesamericas@contex.com.

About Contex

As the world's largest developer and producer of large format imaging solutions, Contex leads the market with innovative technology and advanced scan and copy software applications. Over the years, Contex scanners have received numerous awards from leading trade publications and analyst firms, includingCadalyst, Wide-Format Imaging, and BERTL. Sold worldwide in more than 90 countries, Contex solutions are recognized in a wide range of industries for reliability, value, high performance, and superb image quality. For more information, please visit www.contex.com.