Board of Directors

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Raf Hens Chairman

Raf Hens is the VP Engineering at Apryse, where he focuses on PDF-centric technology and products. He joined Apryse through… Read more

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Dietrich von Seggern Vice-Chairman

Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop… Read more

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Kenny Swope Board member

Kenneth (Kenny) Swope chairs Boeing’s Enterprise Business Architecture Team and is responsible for the company’s Commercial Airplanes Business Capabilities Architecture… Read more

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Patrick Gallot Board member

Patrick Gallot, has been working with software developers and PDFs since 2000. At Datalogics, he is the lead technical support… Read more

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Elodie Tellier Board member

Elodie Tellier is the former COO of ORPALIS Imaging Technologies, an innovative French company producing imaging software, PDF processing tools,… Read more

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Boris Doubrov Board member

Boris Doubrov is CEO of Dual Lab, the company specializing in product development services in the areas of Computer Graphics,… Read more

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Roman Toda Board member

Roman Toda is Chief Standardization Officer at Foxit Software, but first and foremost a software developer. C++ expert with more… Read more

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Leonard Rosenthol Board member

Leonard Rosenthol is the Senior Principal Architect for PDF & the Document Cloud at Adobe, having been involved with PDF… Read more

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Roman Lasskiy Board member candidate

With over two decades of experience in software development, I’ve contributed to the success of Nitro PDF by working on… Read more

Staff

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Duff Johnson
Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of the PDF Association and as an ISO Project Leader, Duff coordinates industry activities, represents industry stakeholders in a… Read more

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Peter Wyatt
Chief Technology Officer

Peter Wyatt is the PDF Association’s CTO and an independent technology consultant with deep file format and parsing expertise. A… Read more

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Matthias Wagner
Chief Financial Officer

Matthias obtained his degree in computer science in 1985 and possess comprehensive IT knowledge and experience dealing with the use of… Read more

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Thomas Zellmann
PDF Evangelist

Thomas Zellmann has been working in electronic data processing (EDP) for more than 30 years and has extensive experience with classic… Read more

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Betsy Fanning
Director of Standards

Betsy Fanning is a consultant to the PDF Association, Inc. leading its standards program efforts. In this capacity, she is… Read more

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Alexandra Oettler
Member Benefit Manager

Alexandra Oettler has worked for years as a freelance journalist in the areas of software, print and media. Her work is… Read more

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Melina Tusch
Member Benefit Manager

Melina is a dynamic individual who thrives in her role as a Feel-Good Manager within her environment. With a keen… Read more

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Susanne Wagner
Support Accounting

Susanne’s world are the numbers. For many years she has had extensive experience in accounting. She juggles with receipts and… Read more

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