Thane Kerner

Thane Kerner is Chief Executive Officer of Silverchair Holdings, a pioneer in distributed digital knowledge technologies for education, reference, and professional workflow.

The firm’s primary operating unit, Silverchair Information Systems, is a global leader in technology products and services that drive digital growth for scholarly and professional publishers. In 2012, SHI achieved the successful exit of Silverchair Learning Systems to Relias Learning, now a subsidiary of Bertelsmann SE & Co.

Mr. Kerner serves on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishers Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers; the Board of Directors of CHOR, Inc., and the Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Prior to founding Silverchair in 1993, he was publisher of Experimental Hematology, the official journal of the International Society for Experimental Hematology.