Meet the Foundry Lifecycle and Inventory Experience Team.

This multi-talented team brings a diverse range of backgrounds and skills together to create valuable and successful experiences for foundry partners and their customers. They focus on initiatives such as foundry relations, inventory curation, and platform development to ensure a high-quality experience for the Monotype foundry community.

Mary Catherine Pflug
Senior Director, Foundry Lifecycle & Inventory Experience

Akash Chandoliya
Foundry Activation Specialist

Casey Hargreaves
Manager, Foundry & Inventory Experience

Dan Rhatigan
Director of Inventory Strategy & Curation

Henning Krause
Senior Foundry & Inventory Experience Manager

Inka Strotmann
Product Manager of Foundry Platform

Jatin Jadoun
Foundry Operations Specialist

Jeffrey Bolivar
Type Operations Specialist

Kelci Elliott
Foundry Relations & Lifecycle Manager

Kristen Frias
Director, Foundry & Inventory Operations

Molly Doane
Foundry & Inventory Experience Manager

Pat Lightizer
Senior Type Operations Manager

Romeo Ruz
Senior Manager, Foundry Relations & Lifecycle

Shantanu Joshi
Product Manager of Product Inventory Management (PIM)

Sumant Raj
Foundry Operations Specialist

Trilok Kumar Mishra
Associate Manager, Foundry Operations
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

Jatin Jadoun
Foundry Operations Specialist

Sumant Raj
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

Ryan Hallett
Director, Royalties Operations