PDF Association staff
The PDF Association staff delivers a vendor-neutral platform for PDF's stakeholders, facilitating the development of open specifications and ISO standards for PDF technology. The staff are located in Germany, the United States and Australia.
Staff members include:
- Alexandra Oettler (Editor),
- Betsy Fanning (Standards Director),
- Duff Johnson (Chief Executive Officer),
- Melina Tusch (Member Benefit Manager),
- Matthias Wagner (CFO & Operations Director),
- Peter Wyatt (Chief Technology Officer),
- Thomas Zellmann (PDF Evangelist).
PDF Association staff's Publications
Article January 10, 2024
The PDF, ICC, NITF and video datasets used in SafeDocs’ performer hackathons and evaluations are now available for download from … Read more
PDF Association news January 5, 2024
Adobe’s Standards Support Endowment, now in its sixth year, facilities administration of ISO TC 171 SC 2 and sustains the … Read more
Article December 21, 2023
In 2023, the volunteers and staff of the PDF Association were busier than ever, with new working groups, resources, and … Read more
PDF Association news December 20, 2023
PDF Week Online 2024 consists of 16 PDF Association Working Group meetings and 2 ISO working group meetings.
PDF in the Wild December 18, 2023
Verizon is tricked by a fraudulent PDF, a family tree of PDF specifications, veraPDF is tops for the Open Preservation … Read more
Article December 11, 2023
Join this webinar to learn why PDF/X-1a was a good idea 20 years ago, but no longer today and find … Read more
Article December 10, 2023
The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core … Read more
PDF Association news November 29, 2023
The new VSCode extension by the PDF Association provides PDF syntax awareness to this popular editor, and is designed to … Read more
PDF Association news November 27, 2023
The PDF technical community will hold a series of online meetings during February 2024 to continue advancing the PDF file … Read more