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Mary Anne Baynes joins Overleaf as Head of Sales and Marketing

January 21, 2015Boston, MA – Baynes brings researcher, institutional and scientific publishing expertise to Overleaf.

Overleaf, (previously WriteLaTeX), the leading collaborative authoring and publishing tool for scientific research, has appointed Mary Anne Baynes as Head of Sales and Marketing, based in Raleigh, NC, USA.

Baynes has more than 20 years of experience in international sales, marketing and program development for various technology-based companies, both large and small – most recently in the STM, Institutional, and Association publishing industries through Cenveo Publisher Services, The Charlesworth Group and American Journal Experts. Baynes has also been instrumental in the global expansion of these services. Owing to her in-depth industry experience and knowledge, she was invited to become the co-chair of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Education Committee, to help guide the direction for SSP’s educational seminars and webinars.

Overleaf’s rapidly growing service is already being used in more than 1,000 universities and institutions globally and has compiled in excess of 1.5 billion pages, serving more than 150,000 authors from more than 180 countries worldwide.

“This is an exciting opportunity and I’m honored to join Overleaf and their forward-thinking team”, says Baynes. “Overleaf provides powerful technology and it’s an ambitious time of growth for the company with wide interest from universities and the publishing community. I look forward to working on their continued development and expansion into the scientific and scholarly publishing markets.”

A Digital Science portfolio company, Overleaf is an online system which gives users the ability to author and edit scientific papers, research and reports quickly and accurately. Using a WYSIWYG manuscript editor, Overleaf provides real-time collaboration for a live view of the final typeset output. Created with the goal of making science and research faster, more open and more accessible, Overleaf brings the whole scientific process into one place, from idea to writing to review to publication.

“Mary Anne is expertly poised to expand global awareness and adoption of the Overleaf service through her unique mix of industry, publishing, and technology expertise” says John Hammersley, the company’s co-founder and CEO.  “I’m confident that with Mary Anne leading our sales and marketing efforts we’re in the perfect position for Overleaf to serve an increasing number of students, teachers and researchers in 2015 and beyond.”

About Overleaf – Founded in 2012 as WriteLaTeX, the newly relaunched Overleaf has grown rapidly to become an innovative provider of scientific writing tools. Overleaf makes the power of professional typesetting immediately accessible to all scientists and technical writers at all stages of their career. Overleaf is also supported by Bethnal Green Ventures and business advisors, Ed Freyfogle and Steven Feldman.

In July 2014, Overleaf was crowned Innovative Internet Business of 2014 at the Nominet Internet Awards held in London, representing the pinnacle of online innovation in the UK.

Visit https://www.overleaf.com and follow @overleaf_com on Twitter.

About Digital Science – Digital Science is a technology company serving the needs of scientific research. Whether at the bench or in a research setting, their range of products help to simplify workflows and change the way science is done. Their portfolio brands also include Altmetric, Labguru, Figshare, ReadCube, ÜberResearch, BioRAFT and Symplectic. Digital Science is a business division of Macmillan Science and Education.

Visit http://www.digital-science.com and follow @digitalsci on Twitter.

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