Marilyn Catis

Marilyn Catis drives author engagement for IEEE and has over 27 years of experience delivering new products and services in a professional association setting. Over the past 16 years, Marilyn has focused on mentoring and building new teams to address new business challenges. She spent seven years building two new revenue streams (certification and education) for the IEEE Communications Society. Marilyn has been in her current role in Publishing Operations since 2016. Before that, she worked in IEEE’s corporate communications, sales and marketing, and educational activities departments. One example of author engagement tools and support is the IEEE Author Center, established by Marilyn’s current team. The IEEE Author Center is a one-stop shop for everything an author needs to know when publishing with IEEE. In addition to featuring easy-to-find answers to an author’s publishing questions, the Author Center shares information, authoring tools, and training videos. Other international electrical engineering professional associations have called it “the gold standard” for communicating publishing guidelines with authors.  

Over the past 8 years, Marilyn’s team evolved and expanded. At inception, the focus was on peer review and establishing author engagement. Today, the focus is on ethics, education, and refining all author engagement-related products and services. Marilyn manages a team of nine, two of which are direct reports.