John Lavender

John Lavender is currently Senior Vice President for Publishing & Online Products at CRC Press where he has been for 13 years. He started in publishing working for the Open University Press and then moved to Pergamon Press where he was a marketing manager and then a publisher. From there he moved to Taylor & Francis as Sales & Marketing Director and then to Chapman & Hall in the same role until 1994 when he was made Director of Electronic Publishing, developing an interest in how the print model may change and the opportunities it may bring. At CRC Press he created CRCnetBASE, the first virtual library of science reference books. He was born in England but for the last 10 years has lived in Boca Raton, Florida.