2008 SSP 30th Annual Meeting, Westin Copley, Boston, MA
Seminar 2 – Web 2.0 Beyond the Hype
Speakers
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.
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 has a strong engineering background, as well as experience as both a speaker and writer on technical and industry topics.
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.