Meet the Foundry Lifecycle and Inventory Experience Team.

Mike Matteo and Mary Catherine Pflug bring a wealth of knowledge and many years of experience in the type industry. They cultivate a strategic vision and lead the Foundry Team to help achieve strategy-aligned goals. Leadership also builds relationships with key stakeholders and connects the Foundry Team’s work with other teams across Monotype.

Mike Matteo

Chief Typography Officer

Mary Catherine Pflug

Senior Director, Foundry Lifecycle & Inventory Experience

The Foundry & Inventory Experience team is an essential partner to foundries, providing optimized tools and actionable insights necessary for long-term success across Monotype’s ecosystem. The team oversees search and discovery strategies and updates to merchandising and artwork, and advocates for foundries in the ever-evolving licensing landscape. They unlock customers’ ability to find fonts and understand the value of type, while redefining the industry standard in font licensing and distribution.

Casey Hargreaves

Manager, Foundry & Inventory Experience

Henning Krause

Senior Foundry & Inventory Experience Manager

Molly Doane

Foundry & Inventory Experience Manager

The Foundry Relations & Lifecycle team cultivates the relationships with Monotype’s foundry partners. The team executes communication campaigns to support these relationships, creates engaging educational content, and organizes webinars and community events. Foundry Relations also oversees the Foundry Program and its implementation, which aims to enhance foundries’ experience working with Monotype.

Romeo Ruz

Senior Manager, Foundry Relations & Lifecycle

Kelci Elliott

Foundry Relations & Lifecycle Manager

Akash Chandoliya

Foundry Activation Specialist

Simon Lamb

Graphic Designer - Freelancer

Chloe Miller

Content Writer - Freelancer

The Foundry & Inventory Operations team ensures that font management tools and platforms are organized and maintain high data quality, allowing foundry partners to manage their inventory and relationships with Monotype effortlessly. The team also reviews new font submissions, provides foundry and internal support, and handles inventory integrations from new partnerships and acquisitions.

Kristen Frias

Director, Foundry & Inventory Operations

Inka Strotmann

Product Manager of Foundry Platform

Trilok Kumar Mishra

Associate Manager Foundry Operations

Pat Lightizer

Senior Type Operations Manager

Shantanu Joshi

Product Manager of Product Inventory Management (PIM)

Jeffrey Bolivar

Type Operations Specialist

Harsh Kaushik

Foundry Operations Specialist

Jatin Jadoun

Foundry Operations Specialist

Sumant Raj

Foundry Operations Specialist

Samarth Singh

Foundry Operations Specialist

Dan Rhatigan helps ensure that Monotype has the best and most innovative font library, by partnering with foundries and working on new font releases. He also collaborates with the Monotype Studio Team to curate custom font libraries tailored to the needs of platform and enterprise customers, making sure that Monotype offers a diverse and top-quality inventory.

Dan Rhatigan

Director of Inventory Strategy & Curation

A talented network of internal collaborators support the Foundry Team’s work by providing specific knowledge on topics like media relations, partner engagement, legal advice, and project management.

Anubha Pandey

Agile Practitioner

Candice Smith

Key Partner Engagement Manager

Carol Lee

Director Global Data

Colleen Good

Media & Investor Relations Specialist

Connor Barbor

Product Marketing Manager

Doug Wilson

Creative Services Director
Channels, Partners & Platforms

Graham Sturt

Creative Director

Joseph Flanagan

Legal Counsel

Marie Boulanger

Design Team Lead