Vladimir Levantovsky Email Address

Founder and Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Monotype) is a provider of type and technology for applications and consumer devices. The Company's business segment operates through development, marketing and licensing of technologies and fonts. Its business includes Creative Professional and original equipment manufacturer (OEM). For Creative Professional market, it provides content across multiple devices and mediums. It offers products, such as Type, which include Monotype Libraries, Monotype, Linotype, FontFont, ITC, Ascender and Bitstream collections| e-commerce Websites| Fonts.com Web Fonts service, and font solutions. For OEM market, it offers solutions for consumer device manufacturers and independent software vendors. It offers technologies, such as screen imaging technologies, printer imaging technologies, cloud-based technology platform and font management. Its solutions are licensed through its direct sales channel, as well as its e-commerce platforms and indirect sales channels.

Highly experienced technology professional with demonstrated abilities for technical leadership and innovation, and deep understanding of business and technology development (both software and hardware). Expertise in standards development, R&D and IP management, with broad knowledge of multiple standards organizations processes and procedures. Served as a chair of W3C WebFonts working group, a chair of ISO subgroup that developed Open Font Format (OpenType), and as a project lead / editor for several ISO/IEC standards. US Delegate to multiple working groups at ISO/IEC SC29. Active contributor to many standardization and development activities, including Khronos OpenVG specification, Java Community Process (JSR-271 and JSR-287 for Java ME platform), DVB Multimedia Home Platform, and many other projects and technical specifications. Passionate about achieving the final results of his work and seeing his ideas implemented in real products. Specialties: Technology and multimedia standardization (ISO, MPEG, W3C, IAB, ECMA, The Khronos Group, JCP, OMA, DVB/MHP), font technology, text and language scripts processing in mobile and CE devices and multimedia applications, image processing, computer graphics, technical marketing, intellectual property management and protection.