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With staff in Europe, the US and Australia we are an international collaboration of member organizations and individuals actively learning from and supporting each other in the development and use of PDF technology. 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He is a recognized expert in technical …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Dietrich von Seggern</Name><Description>Vice-Chairman -- Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Bernd Wild</Name><Description>Board member -- Dr. Bernd Wild is originally a graduate physicist. After completing his studies, he worked for several years at a computer science …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Carsten Heiermann</Name><Description>Board member -- Carsten Heiermann is global President of Foxit’s Enterprise Automation Business Unit. Since 1995, Carsten has been founder and CEO of the LuraTech group …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Francois Fernandes</Name><Description>Board member -- François Fernandès is a Senior Solution Architect Digital Frontiers.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Leonard Rosenthol</Name><Description>Board member -- Leonard Rosenthol is the Senior Principal Architect for PDF &amp; the Document Cloud at Adobe, having been involved with PDF …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Catherine Andersz</Name><Description>Board member -- Catherine Andersz is the Co-Founder and CEO of PDFTron Systems Inc. Catherine is responsible for driving PDFTron’s strategy, and is passionate …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Boris Doubrov</Name><Description>Board member -- Boris Doubrov is CEO of Dual Lab, the company specializing in product development services in the areas of Computer Graphics, …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Peter Wyatt</Name><Description>Board member -- Peter Wyatt is an independent technology consultant and developer/researcher who has been actively working on PDF technologies for more than …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Alaine Behler</Name><Description>Board member -- Alaine Behler is the Senior Manager of Global Marketing for iText.  She is passionate about making technology understandable to business users …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Justin Durkan</Name><Description>Board member -- Justin Durkan is currently the Director of Desktop Engineering with Nitro. Justin has been a software developer for over 30 years. He was …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>PDF Association Staff</Name><Description>The staff of the PDF Association execute the day-to-day business of the organisation and operate the various working groups, events, publications and editorial activities on behalf of the membership.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Duff Johnson</Name><Description>Executive Director -- Duff serves the PDF industry as ISO Project co-Leader and US TAG chair for both ISO 32000 (the PDF specification) and …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Thomas Zellmann</Name><Description>Managing Director -- Thomas Zellmann has been working in electronic data processing (EDP) for more than 30 years and has extensive experience with classic …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Matthias Wagner</Name><Description>Operations Manager -- Matthias obtained his degree in computer science in 1985 and possess comprehensive IT knowledge and experience dealing with the use of …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Nicole Gauger</Name><Description>PR-Europe -- Nicole Gauger is the managing partner of good news!, a communications agency based in Stockelsdorf near Lübeck, Germany. Communications and …</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Alexandra Oettler</Name><Description>Editor -- Alexandra Oettler has worked for years as a freelance journalist in the areas of software, print and media. 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