STM People

Cathy Holland is Director of Global Publisher Business Development at Digital Science, where she works with leading publishing organizations to implement technology that supports innovation in scholarly communication. In her role, she focuses on building partnerships around tools and data solutions that help publishers improve insights, workflows, and decision-making. Prior to Digital Science, she spent...

Melissa Junior serves as Chief Publishing Officer at the American Society for Microbiology. With a background in scientific publishing focused on society-based journals and open access transitions, she provides strategic, editorial, and commercial leadership for ASM’s portfolio of peer-reviewed journals and books. Under her leadership, ASM has launched new titles, built an editorial development team...

Tim Vines is the Founder and CEO at DataSeer. Prior to that he founded Axios Review, an independent peer review company that helped authors find journals that wanted their paper. He was the Managing Editor for the journal Molecular Ecology for eight years, where he led their adoption of data sharing and numerous other initiatives....

Jennifer Regala is the Senior Director, Publishing and Product Development, at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, where she oversees ACOG’s journals publishing program, product development, consumer books, and the patient education site. Most recently, Jennifer was the Associate Director, Publishing, at Wolters Kluwer Health, where she oversaw award-winning news magazine publications, including Oncology Times, Emergency...

Rachel Bock has worked at Wiley for more than 18 years. She began working in the Atypon team in 2022, where she leads product management for content and identity capabilities and works to ensure customers generate maximum value from all Atypon products and solutions. She currently represents Wiley on the STM Standards & Technology Committee....

Jessica Sebeok, who is based in Washington, D.C., is Wiley’s Vice President for Global Government Partnerships and Public Policy. In this role, she oversees Wiley’s efforts to advocate for favorable legislative, regulatory, and policy climates around the world to enable and further Wiley’s mission to unlock human potential. Jessica came to Wiley from Johns Hopkins...

Paul Gee, currently Vice President of Product at JAMA, brings twenty-five years of experience driving innovation in scholarly publishing and medical education. Paul’s areas of expertise include publishing strategy, product development, customer research, and operational engineering—all focused on one goal: delivering innovative publishing solutions to speed the delivery of the world’s most critical content.

Amy Kullas, Ph.D., is the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)’s Ethics Director. Kullas is responsible for oversight and management of ASM’s organizational ethics policies and procedures program. She oversees and facilitates the reporting process, discussions, and resolution of allegations relating to science ethics, misconduct, and harassment. Kullas came to ASM from the National Institutes of...

Dr. Florent Bernard is the Counsellor for Research and Innovation at the European Union Delegation to the United States in Washington, DC. He assists in the strengthening of transatlantic research and innovation synergies, notably through the European R&I programme ‘Horizon Europe’. Prior to this position, he was an International Relations Officer for the European Commission, working...

Dr. SUN Yu Associate General Editor of Tsinghua University Press Head of the Life Sciences & Medicine Division and the International Cooperation Department Dr. SUN combines dual doctorates in medicine and management with over 20 years of expertise to drive innovation in medical publishing. Recognized as a Leading Talent in China’s Press and Publishing Industry,...