03: Opening Keynote Address

Kevin M. Guthrie is the president of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization committed to helping accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community. Ithaka focuses on three operational areas: providing strategic services to assist not-for-profit organizations in developing sustainable economic models, providing shared administrative services to a small family of affiliated entities; and organizing and conducting research on the impact of advancing technologies on higher education. Kevin is the former president and current chairman of JSTOR and serves as a trustee for ARTstor. Previously he started his own software development company and was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New-York Historical Society: Lessons from One Nonprofit’s Long Struggle for Survival (Jossey Bass). He holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University.