Carsten Heiermann is Chief Evangelist at Foxit Software. Since 1995, Carsten has been founder and CEO of the LuraTech group acquired by Foxit in 2015, where he first lead Foxit Europe’s organization as CEO and served as global President of Foxit‘s Enterprise Automation Business Unit after.
After studying communications engineering and undertaking work in various IT companies, since 1995, Carsten Heiermann has concerned himself with topics connected with compression, standardization and electronic document capture and conversion. Carsten’s former company, LuraTech, developed patented technologies and products in the field of document and image compression, and offered a variety of integrated products and integration platforms for high volume PDF production, that are continued as a part of Foxit.
While being an Evangelist for all aspects of PDF at Foxit, as Member of the Board, Carsten focuses on the PDF/A standard.