Concurrent 1C: New Content and Business Models in the New Publishing World Order

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.

Mike Beveridge has worked in scientific publishing for the American Association for Cancer Research for 14 years, serving as Production Manager for several AACR journals and overseeing the launch of AACR Journals Online in 2001.

In his current position as Associate Director of Electronic Publishing, he manages the Association’s online journals and other information products as well as abstract submission, management, and publication for all major annual AACR conferences.

In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Beveridge coordinated the development and launch of Cancer Reviews Online and AACR Cancer Prevention Journals Portal, the AACR’s first virtual journals.

David Durand has been thinking writing about and working on the future of documents and information since the 1980s. In 1994 he co-authored Making Hypermedia Work. (Kluwer). W3C standards activities have included XML, Xlink, XPointer. His new company, Tizra, is changing the way publishers sell professional information online.

Sharon Mombrú is co-founder of BlueInsights, an internet venture and consulting practice focused on new initiatives that aim to improve customer interaction through social communities and other emerging web concepts and technologies.

Sharon has over ten years’ international experience in product development, sales and marketing in the publishing industry. Prior to founding BlueInsights Sharon worked at Elsevier, as marketing manager for Scirus, Elsevier’s free Web search engine. She was also involved in the launch of Scopus, the abstract and citation database. Sharon worked previously at financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor in product development and sales.

Sharon holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and an MA in Spanish and Business Studies from the University of Edinburgh.