Virginie Bouilhac
Director of Content Management for Rakuten Kobo. I have been working for Kobo for 12 years and I am deeply involved in making digital content discoverable, accessible and visible on Kobo platform. I lead a team of amazing people in France, Japan and Canada, all fully committed to make publishers content available on Kobo Store.
ONIX expert, I’m also, since many years, deeply involved in making accessibility a priority for Kobo but also for publishers by helping them understanding the requirements.
Arantza Larrauri
Arantza Larrauri holds a degree in Business Administration from ESADE, where she also earned an MBA, and a Master in International Management (MIM) from Thunderbird School of Global Management (Arizona, USA). More recently, she completed a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence at Tech University, specializing in educational applications.
With over two decades of experience in the book industry, she has worked at Círculo de Lectores and Random House. In 2010, she was appointed General Manager of Libranda, and since its integration into the Canadian company De Marquein 2018, she has been Market Director for Europe and Latin America.
She combines her professional role with teaching at the UOC Master in Publishing and Artificial Intelligence training programs for book professionals at the PARIX school. She also contributes regularly to specialized media and is the author of poetry collections and short stories.
Gregorio Pellegrino
Gregorio Pellegrino, Chief Accessibility Officer at Fondazione LIA, is an Italian software engineer with a strong focus on improving digital accessibility for visually impaired individuals. His expertise is reflected in his co-editing of key industry documents, such as W3C EPUB Accessibility 1.1, the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0, and the EPUB Accessibility - EU Accessibility Act Mapping. He is also technical leader of the DAISY Consortium's "Accessible EPUB from InDesign Expert Group," working with Adobe to enhance the accessibility of EPUBs exported from InDesign. Pellegrino's work with organizations like W3C, DAISY, and EDItEUR helps shape global accessibility standards. Through his consulting, training, and standards development efforts, he continues to support more inclusive reading experiences in digital publishing.
Nina Rubach
After completing her master's degree in book studies, Nina Rubach took up a position as Product Manager at Bookwire in 2018.
At Bookwire, today she is Senior Platform Product Manager and ONIX expert. In addition to her position at Bookwire, she is an active member of the Börsenverein's Accessibility Taskforce and interest group “product metadata”.
Besides her work, she is a book enthusiast, loves creative work and yoga.
Christopher Saynor
Chris works with EDItEUR's book publishing standards including ONIX, Thema and EDItX. He has been working particularly on the accessibility metadata in ONIX and contributing to the W3C Publishing CG accessibility task force. He joined EDItEUR in late 2016. For the previous eight years, he worked for GiantChair Inc. in Paris as a metadata specialist and project manager, and prior to that, he has a 20-year background in bookselling with Waterstones and WHSmith.