John Hebert is a marketing communications and media relations expert. John founded Hebert Communications in 1992 to provide specialized public relations and other marketing communications services to companies serving the printing, electronic publishing and digital imaging industries.

During his 30-year career in public relations, journalism and all facets of marketing communications, John has applied his talent for strategic, aggressive and proactive marketing communications to promoting a wide variety of products and services ranging from imaging fiber optics and healthcare products to prepress and proofing systems.

John has been involved in the high-tech side of the printing and prepress industry since 1987, when he helped launch a new division of Compugraphic Corporation that evolved into the predecessor of Agfa Corporation’s prepress division. Among his many achievements, he is credited with helping launch the first color electronic prepress system that combined text and graphics, the first color PostScript laser imagesetter, some of the first CTP imaging systems, and the first SWOP-certified monitor-based proofing system.

He began his communications career as a staff reporter and then assistant editor at Computerworld, the leading newspaper for the US computer industry. He also served as senior PR specialist at Data General Corp., where he also launched a series of ‘firsts,’ including packet-switched computer networking and computer remote diagnostics, and as marketing communications manager responsible for an $80-million division of NYSE-listed Teradyne, Inc.

A graduate of Boston University, John has been a guest lecturer at Merrimac College and Babson College. He is also a long-standing member of the Public Relations Society of America, and has served on the Executive Nominating Committee and on the Professional Development Committee for PRSA’s Boston Chapter.