Prior to his work with IMS Global, he worked as CTO of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and as CTO of the DAISY Consortium. Through his work with IDPF & DAISY he has during the past one and a half decades been engaged in the development of global scale standards, tools and educational efforts for the realization of inclusive and accessible e-publishing and e-reading. Markus lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, from where he also oversees IMS Global’s European operations.