PDF ASSOCIATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Editor
- Freelance Journalist
Alexandra Oettler has worked for years as a freelance journalist in the areas of software, print and media. Her work is …
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- Consultant to
- Director of Standards
- ISO Committee Manager & Standards Director
- Standards Director
Betsy Fanning is a consultant to the PDF Association, Inc. leading its standards program efforts. In this capacity, she is the administrator for the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC171 SC2 and the ANSI secretary for ISO TC171 Subcommittee 2, and supports NISO (National Information Standards Organization) with their standards program. Prior to becoming a consultant, Betsy was Director of Standards for the 3D PDF Consortium and AIIM. She is also responsible for building liaison relationships with other standards development organizations to make the standards program stronger.
Betsy has previously held positions with DynSolutions, a correspondence, document and records management company, and Westinghouse Electric. She has implemented Enterprise Content Management systems including the elements of imaging, workflow, and correspondence, report and document management. In 1994, Betsy was awarded AIIM's Distinguished Service Citation and was inducted into AIIM's Company of Fellows in 2008.
Betsy can be reached at betsy.fanning@pdfa.org.
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- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- CEO at Dual Lab Sprl
- CEO of Dual Lab
Boris Doubrov, CEO of Dual Lab, talks about his PDF Days Online presentation "WCAG or PDF/UA: what's the difference".
Boris Doubrov is CEO of Dual Lab, the company specializing in product development services in the areas of Computer Graphics, CAD/CAM Modelling and other Science-intensive areas. Boris Doubrov holds a PhD in Mathematics and has been working for more than 20 years in PDF technologies as a software developer, a project manager, and a business owner.
Boris is an active participant of the ISO activity on PDF standards development and led technical development of veraPDF, an open source industry supported PDF/A validation tool.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Managing Director
- Vice - Chairman of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- ISO Liaison Officer
- Managing Director at Callas Software GmbH, Explains Why the PDF Format Forms a Sound Basis for RPA Applications
- Managing Director at Callas Software, Explains Why There Are so Many Different PDF Based Standards
- Managing Director of Callas Software, Will Be Hosting a Presentation Titled "PDF 's ISO - Standardized Subsets
- Managing Director of Callas Software, Will Be Hosting a Presentation Titled "Text and Fonts in PDF" at the PDF Days Europe 2018. Presenter
- Printing Engineer
Dietrich von Seggern, CEO of callas software, will be hosting a presentation titled "Text and fonts in PDF" at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this Interview he gives some background information about it.
: a tour" at the PDF Days Europe 2018. Presenter: Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing …
Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director at callas software GmbH, explains why the PDF format forms a sound basis for RPA applications.
Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director at callas software, explains why there are so many different PDF based standards.
by Dietrich von Seggern Specialized ISO standards based on the Portable Document Format are available for a wide range of purposes. PDF Originally developed by Adobe Systems in 1993, PDF 1.7 became an open standard …
Dietrich von Seggern, CEO of callas software, discusses his session "Archiving email - as PDF?" in which he shares the findings from a University of Illinois / NARA / Library of Congress paper.
Dietrich is Managing Director at callas software, the Vice-Chairman of the Board and the PDF Association ISO Liaison Officer. Contact Dietrich regarding liaison requests from ISO committees.
Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop prepress production in a reproduction house. He became involved in research projects for digital transmission of print files, and moved to the German Newspaper Marketing Organisation (ZMG). There Dietrich was responsible for a project to enable the digital transmission of newspaper ads. In 2002 he joined callas software as Director of Product Management, and subsequently introduced callas' PDF/A related products for the archiving industry.
Today, Dietrich is Managing Director at callas software and the Vice-Chairman of the Board and ISO Liaison Officer at the PDF Association.
Dirk Frölich has provided IT services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, industry, government and administration for more than 20 years. His consulting, training and education offerings include in particular the Microsoft Office environment and the creation of accessible PDF documents. He supports service providers and agencies in the conception and implementation of templates for accessible publications as well as federal and local authorities and associations with advice and employee training.
Dr. Hans Bärfuss was the initiator, founding member and since the founding of PDF Association to the General Assembly in 2010 as Vice President. PDF Tools AG is also the Swiss representative in the ISO committee for PDF/A and ISO 32000
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Project Leader
- CEO of the PDF Association, Duff Johnson Is Also Chairman of the North American Chapter
- Contact CEO
Contact CEO Duff Johnson (email) directly with public-relations inquires and to learn how to get involved with the PDF Association.
CEO of the PDF Association and a veteran of the digital document industry since 1996, Duff serves as ISO Project Co-Leader for ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO Project Leader for ISO 14289 (PDF/UA).
As CEO of the PDF Association and as an ISO Project Leader, Duff coordinates industry activities, represents industry stakeholders in a …
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- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- COO and Communication Manager at ORPALIS
Elodie Tellier is COO and Communication Manager at ORPALIS. Located near Toulouse, ORPALIS is specialized in automating large-scale document-based processes and document imaging. Its toolkits for WinForms, WPF, and Web development, GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK and DocuVieware HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit, are used worldwide. ORPALIS also develops several productivity applications to help individuals and organizations manage electronic documents: PaperScan Scanning Software, PDF Reducer, and PDF OCR.
Elodie Tellier is COO of ORPALIS and in charge of communication. She is also the local contact for the PDF …
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- CEO and Marketing Manager of Bridge Technologies Srl
Francesco Tito is the CEO and Marketing Manager of Bridge Technologies Srl. After graduating from Milan's Polytechnical University with a degree in Electronic Engineering, he immediately started collaborating with important consulting companies in the IT sector. After many years at Ernst & Young Consultant, where he gained experience in applications and auditing, he went on to manage the sale of complex innovative solutions, eventually concentrating on Document Automation and taking part in the successful start-up of Bridge Technologies, an Italian company that has been providing solutions for output management, transformation, conversion into any format, and enhanced document flows for storing, printing and bulk mailing since 2005.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Justin has been a software developer for over 30 years. He was there when Windows had the version number 1.04, …
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Kenneth (Kenny) Swope chairs Boeing's Enterprise Business Architecture Team and is responsible for the company's Commercial Airplanes Business Capabilities Architecture …
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- Chairman of the Scandinavian
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- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- Senior Principal Architect for PDF & the Document Cloud at Adobe
Leonard Rosenthol is the Senior Principal Architect for PDF & the Document Cloud at Adobe, having been involved with PDF …
Manuel is Director of EPS. The company has been focused on the PDF format for more than 10 years, and offers consultancy as well as providing software and solutions.
Matthias obtained his degree in computer science in 1985 and possess comprehensive IT knowledge and experience dealing with the use of …
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- Member of the Board
- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Patrick Gallot, has been working with software developers and PDFs since 2000. At Datalogics, he is the lead technical support …
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- Chief Technology Officer
- Independent Technology Consultant and Developer / Researcher
Peter Wyatt is an independent technology consultant and developer/researcher who has been actively working on PDF technologies for more than 17 years. He represents Australia as both Head of Delegation and a Subject Matter Expert at all ISO committees that define PDF standards (ISO TC 171 and ISO TC 130).
Peter is currently Project Co-Leader of ISO 32000 (the core PDF standard), a member of the Board of the PDF Association, and co-Chairs the PDF Association PDF TWG. With degrees in engineering and computer science, he has a background in digital documents and image file format research, product development and standardisation, and holds a number of granted patents.
Peter previously led the research & development of print rendering and document technologies at Canon's research laboratory in Sydney, Australia, supporting Canon's global product range. Before becoming involved in PDF, Peter completed his MBA and worked in software R&D in Australia and the UK on successful technologies such as the Australian ‘bionic ear' (Cochlear), power quality monitoring, and early GSM handsets.
Peter Wyatt is the PDF Association's CTO and an independent technology consultant with deep file format and parsing expertise. A …
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- Chairman of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
- CTO at IText Group
Raf Hens is the CTO at iText Group. Before joining the company in 2012, he worked as a researcher at …
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- Board Member Candidate
- Chief Standardization Officer at Foxit Software
Roman Toda is Chief Standardization Officer at Foxit Software, but first and foremost a software developer. C++ expert with more …
Susanne's world are the numbers. For many years she has had extensive experience in accounting. She juggles with receipts and …
Thomas has been working in electronic data processing (EDP) for more than 30 years and has extensive experience with classic and modern IT solutions. Prior to joining LuraTech/Foxit in 2001 he worked for Softmatic AG, Software AG and Nixdorf among others.
Zellmann focuses on the banking/insurance and archives/libraries segments.
Thomas Zellmann has been working in electronic data processing (EDP) for more than 30 years and has extensive experience with classic …
Wim acts as the Sales Director for Foxit in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) and has worked with some of the largest companies throughout the region to assist them with their document management strategy.
He is a veteran in the software industry and during the past 20 years he has worked for innovative software start-ups in the IT Security and Customer Experience Market. The last 5 years he has helped Foxit Software to establish growth in the EMEA market.