Lars Trieloff is Co-founder and COO of Mindquarry, an VC-funded startup that creates Open Source Collaboration Software that makes tools known from Open Source Software development available for all information workers.
Before founding Mindquarry, Lars studied Software Systems Engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and used his free time to become one of the german experts in the field of DocBook XML and gave training and consulting on this topic.
He is the author of a german book about DocBook-XML, a german online tutorial about this topic, wrote various open source tools for improving usability of DocBook XML and is committer to the Apache Cocoon project.