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22 I-CONNECT007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2026 Electronics Association. DIN Media, where I was the managing director, sells IPC standards in Germany. How did you become aware of this new role with the Global Elec- tronics Association? A friend of mine said, "Look at this job opening. It sounds like you." I didn't have that on my radar, but I knew of the Global Electronics Associ- ation as I've been working with electronics companies up and down the supply chain as part of my smart standards efforts at ISO, CEN, and DIN. It seemed a natural fit. Have you always worked in electronics and manufacturing? I've been involved with the electronics indus- try since I started working for a computer maga- zine called Chip about 25 years ago. Eventually, I joined the German subsidiary of the parent com- pany of Computerworld and PC World, Internation- al Data Group (IDG), which was based in Boston. I'm a trained journalist and business economist who started working as an editor and business de- veloper. I moved into online and digital businesses, and then eventually into general management. As a man- aging director, I worked at tech, media, and standards companies in Europe and the U.S. I was actually the reverse, where I started in manufacturing and found my way into publishing. It is in- teresting to look at where we start and where we end up. I was a global publisher for a media company based in Manhattan, so I've had a strong network in the United States, which makes this role with the Global Electronics Association, with its headquar- ters in Chicago, a natural fit. Dominik, tell me about your standards work in Germany. I was brought on board by the German manage- ment of DIN, the Deutsches Institut für Normung (the German Institute for Standardization), for two main projects. One project was to rebuild the company from a traditional standards publisher into a software busi- D o m i n i k G ra u