Home   »   Events   »   Past SSP Events   »   25th Annual Meeting (2003)

2003 annual meeting

Speaker Bios

Adrian Alexander

has nearly thirty years of library industry experience as a librarian, a sales manager for two major subscription agents, head of the Faxon Institute, and serving as a BioOne Board member since 2000. Since 1998 he has served as the Executive Director and COO of Greater Western Library Alliance, a 31 member research library consortium. Adrian is a frequent author and speaker at professional meetings.

Andrea Powell

is Director of Publishing for CAB International (CABI), a not-for-profit organization that generates and disseminates scientific information in sustainable agriculture and the environment. Having roles in marketing, production, and product development at CABI since 1991. She is responsible for CABI’s publishing program of secondary databases, books and journals. From 2003 to 2005 she was the Chair of the The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).

Audrey Melkin

is Director of Business Development at Atypon Systems, Inc. Previously she was Vice President, Publisher Relations at Ingenta and CatchWord and has worked at Holt, Wiley, and Oxford University Press. She is a regular speaker at industry gatherings, including the Charleston Conference, American Library Association (ALA), American Association of Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP), and the SSP.

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.

Bernard Rous

has worked at the Association for Computing Machinery from 1980. His responsibilities have included development and management of database publishing system for reference publications; development of early CD-ROM and hypertext products; project management for SGML publishing production system; development and direction of electronic publishing program; drafting copyright and permissions policy for the networked environment; and establishing of Digital Library, Online Bibliographic Database, and Computing Portal with appropriate business models.

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.

Bill Silberg

is Senior Vice President for Communications and Publishing at the Commonwealth Fund, an independent, private foundation that studies and supports research on health care policy and social issues. Previously he was Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at Medscape from WebMD. Bill also worked at the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago Hospitals, and spent seven years at UPI as a reporter, editor, and bureau chief.

Carol Richman

has over fifteen years experience in professional and scholarly publishing, and her focus has been on electronic publishing and licensing issues and activities. Richman joined SAGE Publications five years ago as Director of Licensing & Electronic Publishing and has focused on delivering journal and book content via electronic means. Before joining Sage, Richman held several different positions in electronic publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Chuck Koscher

is the Director of Technology of CrossRef. He has been actively involved in improving the linking infrastructure for their member’s scholarly publications. As a technologist, his focus is on implementation concerns driven by data management, data quality and on the development of new services and standards intiatives. Chuck has more than 16 years experience in software services relating to content management and structured data delivery systems.

Douglas 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 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.

Jabin White

Executive Director of Electronic Production for Elsevier serving the Health Sciences Division, will talk about the cultural, human, and organizational lessons learned from a major retooling at a publishing house. He is dedicated to topics such as markup languages and supporting tools, content management, and workflow engineering. He came to Elsevier as part of the acquisition of Harcourt Health Sciences, where he led the Electronic Publishing Services group that published under the imprints of Mosby, W.B. Saunders, and Churchill Livingstone.

Jack Ochs

is currently Vice President, Strategic Planning & Development for the Publications Division of the Ammerican Chemical Society. He is a member of the STM Executive Committee, CrossRef Membership and Fees Committee, and COUNTER’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining the ACS, he serrved in a number of editorial, strategic planning, and management positions with Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, and Prentice-Hall.

Jan Peterson

VP Content Development at Infotrieve, is an industry veteran with 20 years experience in STM publishing and content development. Jan has been VP for Publisher Relations at Faxon/Dawson, and she spent 14-years at Academic Press where she was part of the early days of IDEAL, the first online journal program. Jan is involved in the standards community, currently serving as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

Jim Mouw

is Acquisitions Librarian and Electronic Resources Officer at the University of Chicago and has previously held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Gardner-Webb College in North Carolina. He is also adjunct professor at Dominican University School of Library and Information Science (formerly Rosary College), where he teaches the class on serials. His most recent presentations were at the 2002 Charleston Conference, where he participated in a preconference session on linking and also convened a plenary session on issues related to linking standards.

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.

Julie Steffen

is associate journals manager and director of astronomy journals at the University of Chicago Press. She is responsible for five premier astronomy journals (Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, Astronomical Journal, and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) as well as editing, production, and electronic publishing operations in UCP’s Journals Division. Julie serves on the board of directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

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.

Linda Drumheller

Director of Editorial Production, American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty society, has 25 years of experience in electronic publishing.

Lisa Bos

Vice President and Chief Architect, Really Strategies, Inc., has more than 12 years of hands-on data architecture, data analysis, content transformation, and project management experience. She is widely regarded as an expert in the design of XML-based content management systems and in the integration of those systems with Web sites and other output media. Lisa is a frequent presenter at industry tradeshows and has authored a chapter in the XML Handbook (2nd ed.).

Michael Mabe

has worked in publishing for 25 years in various capacities for Oxford University Press, Pergamon Press and Elsevier. He is currently Director of Academic Relations, a strategic research and external relations department created in 1999 to study the publishing behavior of researchers, institutions and publishing houses. Michael Mabe is also a Visiting Professor at University of Tennessee and City University, London.

Richard Newman

is Director, Journal Sales and Online Business, of the American Medical Association. His responsibilities include the AMA’s 10 scholarly journals, online Continuing Medical Education, and American Medical News. Prior to joining the AMA staff, Richard was Associate Director of Stanford University’s HighWire Press and held a variety of positions at the Thomson Corporation.

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.

Stephen P. Cohen

is Director of Content Engineering at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where he is responsible for the technologies that drive IEEE’s electronic publishing program and support their electronic content repository. Cohen is a member of the CrossRef technical working group and serves as IEEE’s technical representative to the International DOI Foundation. He is also an instructor in the Master of Science in Publishing program at New York University.

Sue 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.