Concurrent 1B: Expose Yourself: Maximizing Content Discoverability

Andrea Powell joined CABI in May 1991 after two and a half years with
Reuters Ltd in the City of London. After three years in Marketing, she
moved into Product Development and in 1999 took on additional
responsibility for Production and IT within the Publishing business unit
of CABI, a not-for-profit intergovernmental organization. Andrea was
appointed to the new role of Executive Director, Publishing, in May
2005, and is now responsible for all aspects of CABI’s publishing
operation. Andrea served as Chair of ALPSP for three years from 2003 to
2005, and is a member of the Copyright Clearance Center’s Publisher
Advisory Group.

Ammy Vogtlander recently founded BlueInsights, an internet venture and consulting practice. BlueInsights focuses on new initiatives that aim to improve customer interaction through social communities and other emerging web concepts and technologies.

Previously, Ammy worked as Director of Search within Elsevier’s corporate strategy group, where she was responsible for identifying new opportunities to maximise the dissemination of Elsevier’s content, building
strong relationships with search partners as well as for developing and executing Elsevier’s search plans.

Before, Ammy was Head of Product for Scirus, Elsevier’s free Web search engine.

Before joining Elsevier, Ammy worked as a senior strategy consultant at a Dutch consulting firm, NeXtrategy – Boer & Croon, where she assisted clients in developing and executing Internet strategies. Ammy started her career at AMS, an American IT consultancy. Ammy
holds a MSc in Physics from the University of Groningen.

Geoff Bilder joined CrossRef as Director of Strategic Initiatives in December 2006, prior to which he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd. since October of 2005. He has over 15 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group in 1993 to provide advanced technology consulting on issues related to academic research, teaching and scholarly communication.

He later served as head of R&D in the IT department of Monitor Group, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, MA. From 2002 to 2005, Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer at Ingenta. He has since worked and consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on how emerging social software technologies are likely to affect scholarly and professional researchers.