2002 annual meeting

Speaker Bios

Barbara Meyers

Meyers Consulting Services. During her 30+ year career, Barbara was one of the founders of SSP; President of CSE; and served on numerous boards/committees. Holding a masters in Science, Technology, & Public Policy and a bachelors in Science Journalism from George Washington University, Barbara is on faculty of the GWU Masters of Professional Studies in Publishing.

Bette Brunelle

provides analysis and advisory services in the Science, Technology and Medical (STM) information sector. Her expertise includes electronic publishing and best practices, open access, the changing user, and customer and buyer dynamics, and she covers industry financial performance and benchmarks. Ms. Brunelle has worked in STM since 1982, first for BRS Information Technologies, then as an executive for Ovid Technologies and Wolters Kluwer.

Bill Kasdorf

Vice President of Apex Publishing, LLC, is General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a major print and online reference work published in 2003 by Columbia University Press. Previously owner and president of Impressions Book and Journal Services and Past President of SSP, Bill is a frequent speaker and seminar leader for SSP, the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), the Council of Science Editors, the Association of American Publishers, and the Association of American University Presses.

Blaise Simqu

is the Executive Vice President for Sage Publications’ Higher Education Group, which includes both the journals and books publishing divisions. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Publishers International Linking Association (PILA) and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). Blaise began his career in publishing in 1984 and first joined Sage Publications in 1986. In 1990, Blaise moved to Jossey-Bass Publishers. In 1991, he was appointed Director of Kinko’s Publishing/College Division at corporate headquarters. He returned to Sage in 1996.

Dale Waldt

is President and Senior Consultant, aXtive Minds, Inc., a small consultancy focusing on helping companies adopt XML and related technologies. Previously, Dale was Vice President of Product Technology for RIA, the tax publishing division of the Thomson publishing company. Dale has taught, spoken, and written worldwide on XML, SGML, the Web, and structured information systems for 20 years.

Doug LaFrenier

is Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, at the American Institute of Physics. LaFrenier held previous positions at Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, the Scientific American Library, and Robert Ubell Associates, a publishing consulting firm. He is a member of the Special Libraries Association and the North American Serials Interest Group, and formerly sat on the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Eamon T. Fennessy

CEO of The Copyright Group, Inc. (TCG), has focused on intellectual property issues for the past 21 years. He has been the CEO of TCG and the Copyright Clearance Center and sits on the Copyright Committee of the Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers Association (STM), and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). Fennessy is a graduate of Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and Fairleigh Dickinson University Graduate School of Business.

Ed Colleran

serves as the Senior Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s publisher constituency and manages the development of content licensing solutions and new revenue-generating initiatives for CCC’s participating publishers. Ed also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s digital rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.

Ed Pentz

is Executive Director of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA) the not-for-profit organization set up by scholarly publishers to develop and run the CrossRef service. CrossRef enables scholarly publishers and other organization to enable links to full text articles on other publishers’ systems. Prior to joining PILA Mr. Pentz was Manager, e-Business Development, at Academic Press where he worked on IDEAL, online reference woprks and Digital Object Identifier (DOI) implementation. He has been Chair of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) DOI Syntax Standards Committee and is currently stationed in Oxford, U.K.

Heather Joseph

is President and Chief Operating Officer of BioOne, a collaborative on-line publishing venture in the biological sciences that has focused on creating a new business model that challenges the traditional boundaries between scholars, publishers, and the library community. In her work for both nonprofit and commercial publishers over the past 14 years, Heather has concentrated on bringing together scholarly traditions and emerging technologies. She was awarded the 2002 ALPSP Award for service to nonprofit publishers for her work on BioOne and was elected to serve as President of SSP beginning in June 2004.

Isabella Hinds

is Director of Content Alliances at WebCT, the market leader in online teaching tools. WebCT allows faculty to easily design, develop and manage Web-based and Web-enhanced courses. At WebCT, Ms. Hinds develops partnerships with a range of content creators, including college text publishers, professional and society publishers, emerging publishers of unique learning objects, and content aggregators, to deliver WebCT-ready content directly to the desktops of faculty and students. These partnerships serve more than 2,250 institutions, 148,000 faculty, and 6,000,000 students, worldwide, on the WebCT platform.

Jean-Claude Guedon

is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal, where he has taught since 1973. He obtained his Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal, Surfaces. He has recently been chosen as Vice President Research Dissemination for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which supports the publishing efforts 40,000 academicians.

John Cox

has spent over 35 years in publishing, with The Open University, Butterworths and Scholastic. He joined Blackwell in 1990 as head of the subscription agency and then as Managing Director. He was Managing Director of Carfax, a UK journal publisher, from 1994. He left Carfax in November 1998 to set up his own consultancy, John Cox Associates, which specializes in scholarly and research publishing.

John Tagler

Vice President, Account Development & Channel Marketing, Elsevier Science, has been with Elsevier for more than 25 years, starting as a library sales rep and later moving into journals marketing, sales, and marketing services. Most recently, he served 10 years as Director, Corporate Communications, before assuming his present position in 2001. Tagler is active in the Special Libraries Association, Medical Library Association, and the American Library Association.

Keith Seitter

Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), received his B.S. degree in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago. He worked as a research scientist for the United State’s Air Force and was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. In 1991, Seitter joined the staff of AMS to oversee its transition into electronic publishing and has overseen a number of programs and initiatives for the Society.

Mark Walter

Consultant in Content Technology Strategies, is an author, editor, market analyst, consultant, and 20-year veteran of the commercial publishing industry. Walter specializes in helping publishers and their vendors understand and apply emerging electronic publishing technologies. His particular areas of expertise include content and digital asset management, SGML/XML, and cross-media publishing systems. Recent clients from within the scholarly publishing community include the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, Cadmus Journal Services, and IEEE.

Priscilla Markwood

Manager, Industry Relations, Cadmus Communications, whose experience includes a soup-to-nuts managing editor role with a non-profit society, where she managed two successful STM publications for 10 years. She knows first-hand the difficulties of navigating the increasing complexities of STM publishing. In her new role with Cadmus Communications, she brings educational resources to colleagues and customers.

Rick Lugg

and partner Ruth Fischer formed R2 Consulting in January 2000, after a combined 25 years in library bookselling. R2 does workflow analysis for libraries, and advises content providers on product design for the academic library market.

Susan Kesner

is a manager of Publisher Relations at the Copyright Clearance Center. Kesner’s focus is on developing and promoting revenue-generating opportunities in secondary licensing for STM publishers. Sue is also involved in educating publishers on copyright and compliance issues. Prior to joining Copyright Clearance Center Kesner served as Director of Publisher Relations at Infotrieve where she introduced Society Publishers to the benefits of joining the Article Economy.

Vicky Reich

is Director, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. She was Assistant Director, HighWire Press. Her traditional librarian career included a wide variety of responsibilities at the: University of Michigan; Library of Congress; National Agricultural Library; and Stanford.