Concurrent 3D: Beyond Books and Journals

David Sampson is an Executive Publisher in Elsevier’s health sciences journals division where he has P&L and strategic responsibility for several specialty portfolios. One of his other roles at Elsevier is to advise fellow publishing colleagues on international growth initiatives. Prior to joining Elsevier, David worked at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in various marketing, sales, business development, and publishing roles, including five-and-a-half years as managing director of LWW’s ex-Japan Asia office in Hong Kong where his team published local books and journals. David also worked for two years as an executive vice president for Conference Archives, now part of Coe-Truman Technologies, where he developed and launched a society event knowledge product. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has an MBA from the Kellogg Northwestern-Hong Kong University of Science & Technology executive MBA program. David recently spoke at the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on expanding journals internationally and served as a co-chair for the 2011 Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN Meeting where he lead the innovation session.

Ruth Thomas is Boston University Libraries’ collection selector and faculty/student resource liaison for archaeology, art history, and classics.

She holds a PhD in classical studies from Tufts University and a MLS in library and information
science from Simmons College and is a past chair of the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
and of the New England Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

She has presented papers and workshops based on her website, Finding Images on the Web (http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/), at educational and professional meetings in New England.

Randall Foster is Licensing and Content Services Manager at Naxos of America, Inc., the North American headquarters for Naxos, “The World’s Leading Classical Record Label.” His responsibilities include licensing and secondary exploitation of Naxos recordings, Business Development, and Product Management of The Naxos Music Library, an educational music database.

After completing his Bachelors in Liberal Arts from the University of Kansas, Randall matriculated to the University of Miami to study Music Business and Entertainment Industries. While in Miami, Randall pursued his musical interests through performing at many world-renowned South Beach venues, starting his own management/booking agency, interning at EMI Latin and freelancing at MTV Latin America.

Upon graduation, Randall went to work full-time for MTV working in music license clearances. Shortly after that, Randall made the move to Nashville to pursue new interests and arrived at Naxos of America.

As co-founder, CEO and President, Mark leads the company’s strategy to create client value and fulfill the Soundbridge mission of helping companies engage and educate business audiences.

Mark brings to his work a passion for connecting people and ideas and a vision for the blending of media, marketing, consulting and education. Mark founded Truman Company in 2006 as an executive-level marketing consultancy and then merged it with Fifty Lessons to create Soundbridge in 2007.

Previously, Mark was co-founder and Managing Director of Tapestry Networks, COO of TomorrowLab at McKinsey & Company, and Research Director at the Strategos Institute. His work at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1994 and 1997 predicted the growth of online communities, personal publishing, and social networking – what we now call Web 2.0.

Mark holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University and an A.B. from Princeton University. He is the co-author of the book Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior and Institutions and,
most recently, a contributor to The Firm as Collaborative Community: The Reconstruction of Trust in the Knowledge Economy.