Board

Chairman

Olaf DrummerOlaf Drümmer, president of both callas software GmbH and axaio software GmbH in Berlin, has been involved in the print, publishing and document management industries since 1990. He is recognized worldwide as an expert in PDF and color management. As a participant in the ISO he was heavily involved in the standardization of PDF/X and PDF/A.

Drümmer also serves as chairman of the European Color Initiative (ECI), which has ensured the continual application of ISO standards for color management and printouts in daily business far beyond the European borders since 1996.

As chairman, he coordinates all activities of the PDF Association and is responsible for recruiting new members.

Vice-Chairman

Duff JohnsonDuff Johnson, President of NetCentric Technologies, founded Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI), the first business document service bureau for PDF files in 1996. In 2009, he merged DSI into Appligent, Inc., and led the resulting Appligent Document Solutions from January 2009 until June, 2011.

Johnson serves in leadership roles in PDF International Standards development. He is Project co-Leader for ISO 32000, Vice Chair of the US TAG for ISO 32000 (PDF), Chair of the US TAG for ISO/DIS 14289 (PDF/UA) and a member of the US TAG for ISO 19005 (PDF/A) and ISO 24517 (PDF/E). In addition to his role as Vice-Chair of the PDF Association, Johnson also serves as Chair of the organization’s North American chapter. Author of dozens of articles on electronic document management subjects, Johnson is known throughout the ECM industry as a leading strategist, consultant and educator.

Members

Harald GrumserHarald Grumser 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.

Carsten HeiermannCarsten Heiermann is founder and CEO of the LuraTech group headquartered in Berlin (Germany) with branch offices in Remscheid (Germany), London (UK) and Redwood City, CA (USA).

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. Heiermann’s company LuraTech developed patented technologies and products in the field of document and image compression and today offers a variety of integrated products and integration platforms for production level document conversion.

As Member of the Board, Heiermann acts as the Dutch Country Chapter sponsor and focuses on the PDF/A standard.

Stewart RogersStewart Rogers, General Manager, European Operations, Crawford Technologies. Rogers has been involved in managing technology firms for more than 17 years, with a particular focus on printing solutions and business intelligence sectors. His background includes roles as IT Manager for the UK’s largest privately held book publisher, Sales Director and Managing Director for various software companies and Senior Consultant for IT project management and business process improvement firms. Formerly the head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa office of Create!form International, Rogers has built and maintained close partnerships with companies such as Xerox, Océ, HP, Deloitte, KPMG, JD Edwards, SAP and Cognos (an IBM company). He was recently named to the Board of the PDF Association.

Bernd WildDr. Bernd Wild, 47, 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 service provider in the banking sector. Together with some partners, he founded intarsys consulting GmbH in Karlsruhe in 1996.

Dr. Wild now concentrates on consulting and providing assistance for complex system integration projects. Document technology has increasingly become a focal point during the past few years. This includes not only the creation of documents from source data, but also the entire documentation life cycle through to archiving. Technologies like electronic signatures, intelligent forms and document standards are at the core of his activities. In addition, intarsys offers products and software components that support these technologies and can be used for easily and reliably designing customer specific solutions.

Managing Director

Thomas ZellmanThomas Zellmann has been working in EDP for more than 20 years and has extensive experience with classic and modern IT solutions. He started his job at LuraTech in 2001. Prior to joining LuraTech he worked for Softmatic AG, Software AG and Nixdorf among others. Zellmann is working in the banking/insurance and archives/libraries segments and is one of LuraTech’s shareholders.

As managing director he coordinates and executes most of the activities of the PDF Association. He is the main contact for all members, vendors and users.