Paul Shannon

Paul Shannon is Head of Technology at eLife, a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to improve the way important research is selected, presented, and shared. 

He’s responsible for the technology strategy at eLife ensuring the team are committed to openness in the products they produce to encourage broad change across the research communication landscape.

He was previously VP Technology for innovative digital music platform 7digital, where he grew the team and scaled the API platform to support the vastly changing music technology industry.

He shares his experience in agile, lean, and XP practices as a regular conference speaker and also tackles topics around process improvement, data-driven decision making and team dynamics at universities and conferences around the world.