CLOUD SIGNATURE CONSORTIUM - Key Persons


Akira Nishiyama

Job Titles:
  • Secom Trust Systems Co

Andras A. Barsi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Andrea Valle

Job Titles:
  • Senior Product Manager
Working for Adobe Systems since 1998, Andrea Valle is Senior Product Manager in the Document Cloud business unit. He is one of the pioneers of the PDF format developed by Adobe, the de facto worldwide standard for electronic documents. He has covered multiple roles in pre-sales and business development, supporting many corporate and government organizations to implement major projects on dematerialization and secure document management, focusing on digital signatures, information security and accessibility. He's responsible for the design and development of digital signature features in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Sign products and Director of the AATL Trust Program. He is also involved in standardization activities at organizations like ISO and ETSI, actively contributing to standards like ISO 32000 and ETSI EN 319142 (PAdES).

Andreea Prian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Arvind Srinivasan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advocacy Committee
  • Board Member, Advocacy Committee Chair
  • Senior Vice President - International Sales and Strategy
Arvind Srinivasan is the Senior Vice President - International Sales and Strategy and is the head of the marketing team of eMudhra. He has been associated with the Company since 2019. He has a bachelor's of science from Rutgers, the state University of New Jersey and masters of science degree in finance from the University of Michigan post which he completed his MBA at Said Business School, Oxford, UK.

Bruce Wei

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Carrie Peter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advocacy Committee
  • Member of the Marketing Committee
  • Advocacy Committee Vice - Chair
  • Impression Signatures ( Vice - Chair )

Cheri Meyer-Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Clarissa Coetzee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Claudia Obermüller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee
  • Trust

Dean Coclin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Edwin Zhai

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Francesco Barcellini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

François Chassery - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Marketing Committee
  • Treasurer
François Chassery is acting from 18 years on digital identities and electronic signature market:he joins Certinomis just after its creation in year 2000 and became Chief Marketing Officer in 2006 and Chief Executive Officer in 2017.

Guillaume Forget

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Marketing Committee
  • Board Member, Marketing Committee Chair
  • Cryptomathic ( Chair )
  • Managing Director at Cryptomathic GmbH
Guillaume Forget is Managing Director at Cryptomathic GmbH, where he leads the German subsidiary operations. Guillaume is also responsible for ensuring Cryptomathic's unique technology, IP portfolio and innovation capacity can meet the market´s desire for a high level of security assurance. Guillaume has wide industry knowledge and is an evangelist in the eSignature and What You See Is You Sign space, where he has co-authored several papers and patents. To date, Guillaume has successfully co-ordinated numerous key Cryptomathic projects, including large scale central signing deployments across Europe.

Harald Bratko

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Henry Chen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Igor Marcolongo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Digital Transformation Manager
  • InfoCert 's Head of Business & Solutions Compliance
Igor has been InfoCert's Head of Business & Solutions Compliance since 2015. Igor is a competent Digital Transformation Manager with years of experience. Proficient in management of geographical distributed teams, in public speaking and conferences, process design and reengineering, digital law and innovation.

Ionut Florea

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Marketing Committee
  • CertSIGN ( Vice - Chair )
  • Marketing Committee Vice - Chair / Marketing Committee Members

Jerry Hou

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Joanna Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Joao Rei

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Jochen Felsner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Secretary
  • Managing Director of D - Trust
Jochen Felsner is the Managing Director of D-Trust. He is a qualified industrial engineer and computer scientist who has advised European companies on the introduction of IT-supported systems and processes for many years, including as project manager for the Boston Consulting Group.

Klaus Schuch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee
  • Trust

Leo Grove

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Marketing Committee
  • Founder and President of SSL.Com
Leo Grove is the founder and president of SSL.com, a US-based Certificate Authority and member of the Cloud Signature Consortium and AATL Trust Program. Leo actively attends CA/Browser Forum meetings where he participates in policy development that govern the use of digital certificates in the Web PKI. He also contributes to the NAESB (North American Energy Standards Board) WEQ-12 standard on PKI policy as it relates to the North American natural gas and electric power marketplace. Leo is an advocate of digital certificate adoption and seeks to educate the public through SSL.com‘s talented team of writers and PKI experts. When he's not looking for opportunities to further advance the usage of digital signatures, Leo likes to spend time with his family and on occasion rides his electric skateboard through the neighborhood.

Luigi Rizzo

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Technical Committee

Massimo Bandinelli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Paola Monti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Pasquale Chiaro

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Patrick Beckman Lapré

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Patrick is the Director - Digital Trust Specialist at Digicert. He was previously the Director Sales & Marketing at QuoVadis Trustlink B.V.

Patrycja Wiktorczyk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Robert-George Simion

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Sergio Ruiz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
With a Diploma in Business Management and a Law degree from the CEU, he finished his studies with a Master's Degree in Telecommunications Law and new technologies from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Throughout his career, he has directed various companies specializing in the Internet and in security applied to new technologies, such as Domestika and Camerfirma. He has co-founded the company Ivnosys, which today belongs to the Signaturit Group, and in the last 10 years he has developed different entrepreneurial projects also related to the internet world.

Stefan Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Stephen Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Thanos Vrachnos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Thomas Brochmann Pedersen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Thomas Pielczyk

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Technical Committee
  • Vice - Chair of the Technical Committee

Thomas Roessler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Venkatraman Srinivasan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advocacy Committee

Victoria Allen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marketing Committee

Vijay Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Committee

Viky Manaila - President

Job Titles:
  • President
Viky Manaila is an international expert in the field of electronic signatures, digital identity and digital transformation processes, and has successfully promoted the use of electronic signatures and electronic businesses throughout Europe and in the United States.