Harald Grumser is member of the board of the PDF Association.

He founded, together with other shareholders, Compart AG in 1992 and has headed it since its inception.

After several years studying physics at the University of Karlsruhe he changed to data processing. In his early years he worked in both software development and as an editor (Hüthig-Verlag, Heidelberg) and published numerous papers in the (at that time) new area of PCs and microprocessors. After several years as project manager of a European computer project with IBM he was selected as president of a Böblinger software company.