Karl De Abrew

Debenu CEO

B Dig Sys

Founder and former CEO of BinaryThing, Planet PDF's parent company (now consolidated as Nitro PDF), Karl De Abrew (B Dig Sys) previously lead the team that brought you Planet PDF, the Planet PDF Forum and PDF Store.

Since 1997, Karl's guidance has seen Planet PDF grow into the home of the PDF community. Karl is a well-recognized PDF personality and seasoned speaker, heavily involved in such events as Seybold SF, Seybold Boston, Seybold NY, PDF Conference 2000, East, West, Baltimore, TextOneZero, Open Publish, PacPrint which has seen him heading all over the east and west coast of the US, Australia and even Korea while fostering the development of the PDF Community. In addition, his PDF development experience is extensive, including IAC applications, plug-ins, JavaScript, forms, security handlers, dynamic PDF and more. Prior to founding BinaryThing, Karl worked with a multinational investment bank as a Systems Engineer, where he oversaw the development and deployment of a PDF-based Web publishing system for their Research department. Karl has also been a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MSCE) and a commissioned officer in the 1st Commando Regiment.

Karl is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Debenu Pty. Ltd. (www.debenu.com), a company he founded in July 2007 with two core products: Benubird Pro is an easy-to-use personal document management system that allows you to collect, organize and archive documents. Once archived, documents can easily be retrieved using a special combination of searching, tagging and browsing; Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF | QuickPDF) (www.quickpdflibrary.com), is a powerful royalty-free PDF developer SDK -- including a 500+ function API for use with ASP, ActiveX, VB, VB Script, C++, C#, Delphi and more...