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2011 IN Conference

Innovation Session Speaker + Q&A

Speakers

Bradley Allen
Bradley P. Allen is VP, Elsevier Labs at Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific and medical content. Mr. Allen began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon’s Robotics Institute. As a senior member of the technical team at Inference Corporation he created CBR Express, one of the first and most successful case-based reasoning solutions for customer support. He was founder and CTO at Limbex Corporation, where he created WebCompass, an Internet search assistant that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall ’95. Mr. Allen was also founder of TriVida Corporation, a Web site personalization application services provider, serving as CTO until TriVida’s acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in 2000, and founder and CTO of Siderean Software, a vendor of Semantic Web solutions for information access and discovery. Mr. Allen earned a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, and has been awarded five U.S. patents.
Mark Witkowski
Mark Witkowski is the VP of Technology Development at The Sheridan Technology Lab. The Technology Lab is a division of The Sheridan Group committed to developing and introducing technology-based solutions to support the journal, book, magazine, and catalog publishing communities. In this role, Mark works with company leaders to set and execute strategies for advancing Sheridans technology programs. <pP

Mark joined The Sheridan Group in 1999 and has held several technology-related roles in the Magazine, Journal and Book markets. From 2006 through 2009, Mark was the Vice-President of Operations at Sheridan Books, where he led the Operations Team through substantial investments in equipment, streamlined production workflows and improved service to customers.

Mark earned a Master of Science degree in Graphic Arts Systems from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Loyola University. He has authored two books on Adobes popular PDF format as well as one book on Adobe InDesign.