David is the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversees journal policy and contributes to strategy across OUP’s journals program, drives technological innovation, serves as an information officer, and manages a suite of research society-owned journals. David was previously an Executive Editor with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, creating and editing new science books and journals, and was the Editor-in-Chief for Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing. David has been elected to and serves on the Boards of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the STM Association, and CHOR Inc., a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to research.
Angela is the Associate Publisher and Journals Director for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), publisher of 36 technical journals. Prior to that, she was the Production Director at ASCE overseeing all production aspects of journals, a monthly member magazine, and book products. She was Managing Editor of Cancer and Cancer Cytopathology at the American Cancer Society and was Production Manager for Journals at ASCE. She is a Past-president of the Council of Science Editors and current member of the SSP Board of Directors.
Kent is the former editor-in-chief of The Scholarly Kitchen (as well as its founder), a former SSP Board member, and a past President of SSP. In 2011, he received the SSP’s Distinguished Service Award, the organization’s highest honor. Kent has a BA in English and an MBA. He is CEO of RedLink, a startup devoted to helping librarians and publishers “see what they’re missing.” He is the founder of Caldera Publishing Solutions, and has been Publisher at AAAS/Science, CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Publishing Director for the New England Journal of Medicine, and Director of Medical Journals for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Robert is Associate Executive Director, Publishing at the American Mathematical Society. Robert has the responsibility for driving strategic growth and management of the AMS publishing program for books, journals and electronic products. Robert also serves on the MathJax Steering Committee. Robert came to the AMS from the American Institute of Physics, where he served as Publisher, successfully leading AIP’s move away from its traditional role as a provider of publishing services, moving on to focus on serving the publishing needs of its member societies and AIP’s own journals. He has forged an international career working in both non-profit and commercial settings, with rich experience across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Robert holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Oxford, and a first-class honours degree in chemistry from the University of London.
Roger is Director, Library and Scholarly Communication Program, for Ithaka S+R. In this role, he leads studies of academics’ and students’ attitudes, practices, and needs, as well as research on the changing role of the academic library, learned society, and scholarly publisher. In recent years, Roger has spearheaded the development of Ithaka S+R’s local survey service, helping individual colleges and universities to examine and more effectively serve the practices and needs of students and faculty members. He also consults on strategic and business planning for libraries and library consortia, digital humanities projects, distinctive collections and centers of excellence, and scholarly publishers. Roger has served on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Earlier, he was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he worked on projects related to college athletics and scholarly communication. Roger has a degree in English Literature from Yale University. His Ithaka S+R projects and publications are freely available online, and he is active on Twitter as @rschon. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also operates Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico.
Todd is currently Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), where he helps to organize community consensus on a variety of technical and business practice issues for publishers, libraries, and systems vendors. He also served as SSP Secretary-Treasurer and as a Board member. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and German from Syracuse University, Todd escaped the snowy northern climate for the warmth and sun in Georgia and then eventually Maryland. Realizing there was no lucrative future in philosophical musings or reading German literature, Todd entered publishing, where he worked in a variety of marketing management roles at the Haworth Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, the Johns Hopkins University Press, and BioOne. When not working on standards development, his wife and two small children, gourmet cooking, biking, and photography engage almost all of his waking hours. Todd is very active on twitter @tac_niso.
Michael is the Managing Partner of Clarke & Esposito, a management consultancy focused on digital information strategy, product development, and marketing related to professional and scholarly publishing. Previously, he founded Clarke & Company and he was Executive Vice President for Product and Market Development at Silverchair Information Systems. Additionally, Michael has held positions at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press. He has served on the board of directors for Silverchair Information System, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and the Council of Science Editors. Michael is a graduate the University of Colorado and the University of Chicago.
Adrian is the current Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) President, and Vice President, Global Development at Digital Science, as well being an Associate Editor for Learned Publishing; a Non-Executive Director with Bioscientifica a society-based organization that supports biomedical research, and a Board Member of STEM Fellowship. He has held numerous volunteer committee/chair roles with SSP, ALPSP and the Council for Science Editors over the last 20+ years living and working on four continents, within scholarly communications and academic publishing.
Heather is Director of Partnerships at Hypothes.is, a non-profit in the annotation/collaboration space. Her previous roles include Director for the ProQuest Global Content Alliance and VP Publisher Content Strategy, SIPX (formerly the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange), Global eProduct Manager, Springer SBM (now Springer Nature). She began her publishing career as a book acquisitions editor for Praeger Publishers, where she was eventually Editorial Director for Praeger Security International, a multi-format imprint. She is a frequent participant in industry events, including the Society or Scholarly Publishing, Charleston Library Conference, ALPSP, Force11, and more. In August 2016, she joined Project COUNTER as a member of their Board of Directors. She is part of NISO’s Transfer Standing Committee, NASIG’s Digital Preservation Task Force, RA21 Working Group, and the STM Association’s Futurelab. She earned a Ph.D. in Military History from Yale University.
Veronica has been the publisher at Wits University Press since 2002. In this role she has helped grow the Press into one of the leading scholarly publishers on the continent. Before that she was a commissioning editor at University of Natal Press (now UKZN Press). Her entry into the world of publishing began with the establishment of a small independent press, Gecko Books, which published children’s books in a number of South African languages. Her formal education focused on literary studies, and she graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1991 with a Master of Arts degree in German literature. Veronica is an elected member of the Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA), Academy of Science of South Africa, and has previously chaired the Scholarly Sector of the Publishers’ Association of South Africa. She is currently co-editing a book on the politics of publishing in South Africa with Beth le Roux and Monica Seeber, to be published by UKZN Press in 2019.
Andrew is the Digital Publisher at Wits University Press and prior to this worked at Unisa Press and Macmillan in the UK. His publishing experience has largely been in academic and reference publications – books, journals and digital products. This includes digital archives, platform creation, policy formulation, business planning, and related publishing operations. Andrew is closely involved with standards development and implementation especially for metadata, identifiers and XML workflows for scholarly publishers. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1486-1018):
Cathy is the Business Development Manager, Publishing at Digital Science. Cathy will presenting perspectives from the SciELO 20 year anniversary meeting, September 2018, in Sao Paulo which she attended. Abel Packer and SciELO have supported and contributed to the data in this presentation, but were not able to attend Frankfurt. Cathy works with publishers to help them implement technologies which support their strategic mission and goals. She knows how important metrics and data can be in the evolving scholarly communication ecosystem. Cathy has previously worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a manager who helped the society expand the reach of their family of e-resources—most notably Science—to many organizations around the world. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Marymount University.
Aadi is the Head of Product & Innovation and (Co-Founder) Profeza, India (more to come)…
YUN Wei is the Director of Economics and Management Division, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. With over 12 years of publishing experience, she acquired and published over hundreds of titles of books. The book entitled “Beyond the Demographic Dividend” has won the highest awards in China’s publishing industry – China Governmental Publishing Award. YUN Wei has the practical experience and innovative attempts in academic publishing, customized publishing, digital publishing and academic publishing services
