Experience: Joint initiator and founder of the PDF/A Competence Center Founder and CEO of PDF Tools AG Founder and Member of the Board of numerous SMEs (GLANCE, Medica Medizinal-Informatik AG, CCS Creative Computer Software AG, IMA AG, Forte Advisors) in Switzerland Developer of Software for the Processing of Electronic Documents (PDF, PostScript, TIFF, JPEG, etc.) … Read more
Alexandra Oettler has worked for years as a freelance journalist in the areas of software, print and media. Her work is regularly published in specialist journals on the subject of prepress in practice, software technology and financial developments in the publishing sector. She writes news and background reports for the online editions of several journals. She … Read more
Thomas Merz is managing director of PDFlib GmbH, the software company he founded 2000 in Munich (Germany). Since obtaining his master’s degree in mathematics in 1990, Thomas Merz has been occupied with computer graphics and cryptography. His membership in Adobe’s Developers Association brought him in contact with the earliest versions of Acrobat and PDF. Subsequently … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Dr. Bernd Wild is originally a graduate physicist. After completing his studies, he worked for several years at a computer science research center in the field of artificial intelligence and its possible applications in industrial processes. Upon obtaining his PhD, Dr. Wild was responsible for the organization and management of C/S software development at an IT … Read more
Thomas Zellmann 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. As PDF Evangelist Thomas promotes the mission of the PDF Association. Contact Thomas at thomas.zellmann@pdfa.org
