photo-specialty dealers from 1984 –1987, when he left to take over Hasselblad USA as President/CEO.

During his twelve years at Hasselblad he founded Hasselblad University, today Hasselblad’s worldwide educational arm; expanded the Hasselblad newsletter to a quarterly magazine and helped to establish Hasselblad as a leader in marketing and education.  In 1998 at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, Skip and his management team were recognized as the best Swedish company in America.  

He served as President/CEO of Hasselblad USA until 1999, at which time he helped launch an Internet photographic retail site as president of PhotoAlley.com until 2002, when the dot com economy collapsed.

He has served as PPA’s Industry Advisor and Board member, Vice President of the Photographic Manufacturer’s and Distributor’s Association, member of the board of directors of Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS, board member of the Center for Creative Photography, originally founded by Ansel Adams, the Photographic Hall of Fame and most recently P.H.O.T.O. Foundation created to help photographers who were victims of Hurricane Katrina.   

Two key industry fund raisers, created by Skip, included the sales of Ansel Adams’ Cadillac to the Coastal Hotel Group in 1991 and the sales of Ansel’s Hasselblad gear to shock jock, Don Imus in 1997, raising $100,000 for charity.

He has been a recipient of ADL’s Torch of Liberty Award, Foto Imagen Magazine’s Man of the Year Award and in 2001 he received PPA’s Legacy Award for his work in support of PPA Charities.  He has written four books on photography, The Art of Wedding Photography and The Art of the Digital Wedding with Bambi Cantrell, now in its sixth printing, Don’s Blair’s Guide to Posing and Lighting Body Parts and  Portraiture Simplified also co-authored with Bambi Cantrell, which will be released by Watson-Guptill Publishing in April 2007.