Seminar 2 – Web 2.0 Beyond the Hype

Andrea Powell has been with CABI since 1991, moving through Marketing and Product Development into her current role as Executive Director of the Publishing Business Unit. This encompasses CABI’s database, book and online product businesses, as well as the range of new initiatives such as E-learning which are being developed alongside CABI’s other Business Units.

Andrea studied Russian & French at Cambridge University and started her working life with Reuters in the City of London. She is the current Past Chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and a member of the CCCs Publisher Advisory Group.

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.

Leigh Dodds is the Chief Technology Officer for Ingenta where he oversees the technology strategy and engineering of Ingenta’s flagship website IngentaConnect, as well as the development of its custom publishing platform, pub2web.

Leigh has a strong engineering background, as well as experience as both a speaker and writer on technical and industry topics.

Toby Green joined the OECD in 1998 with a brief to modernize its marketing operation. The result was the launch, in 2000, of SourceOECD, an i-library comprising full-text books, journals and databases. Since then he created OECD’s innovative StatLink service, linking full text publications to their underlying data.

Prior to joining OECD he was Associate Director, Marketing for Elsevier UK. After studying Microbiology and Virology at the University of Warwick, he began his career promoting and selling books for Academic Press before learning about journals with Elsevier Applied Science and encyclopedias and abstracting services with Pergamon Press.

He served on the ALPSP Council 2002-2006 and provides a voice for Intergovernmental Organisation publishers on the SWETS Publishers’ Advisory Board. He was appointed Head of Publishing at OECD at the beginning of 2007.