STM People

Victoria (Torie) Eva serves as Policy Director in the Access and Policy team at Elsevier, responsible for oversight, coordination and development of policy and legislative issues related to Open Science. Victoria covers outreach to key policy contacts, and represents Elsevier’s positioning on Open Science. Prior to her role at Elsevier, Victoria was Global Policy Manager...

Joyce Lorigan is a member of Springer Nature’s Executive Team, serving as Group Head of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability. She brings over 25 years of experience in communications and marketing, having held senior roles at global consumer brands including IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) and The Walt Disney Company, as well as in technology start-ups. Joyce...

Dr. Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH is the founder and CEO who is an internationally known consultant, speaker, and researcher passionate about mentoring the next generation of data scientists. She is active in the Research Data Alliance, grew the St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup to over 1500 participants, and was a fellow with...

Sameer is an entrepreneur with the passion for turning ideas into real businesses. As the Founder and CEO of Impelsys Inc., he drives Impelsys’ business vision, strategy, value and growth. Impelsys is his second start-up and he has grown the company into a market leader in digital content and learning delivery solutions for the global...

Anders Karlsson, PhD, joined in 2012 Elsevier as Vice President for Global Strategic Networks, to support Elsevier’s relations with key stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining Elsevier, he was for five years Counselor for Science and Innovation at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo (Japan), with a regional responsibility for Japan and South Korea....

Nisha Doshi is Senior Digital Development Publisher for Cambridge University Press, where she leads the digital publishing team for academic books and journals. She began her publishing career at PLOS and subsequently spent seven years with Cambridge University Press’ medical books department, during which time she commissioned and managed books and digital products in pathology,...

Andy Heard is Senior Director, IT Business Partner at IEEE where he leads technology for IEEE Publications and for Marketing and Sales.  Andy has held positions both within and outside of IT, in startups and in a diverse set of Fortune 50 companies, including Mars leading global marketing technology, Pfizer, where he was a Business Technology...

Kathryn Sharples is Publishing Development Director at Wiley. During her 15+year career at Wiley she has worked in a variety of editorial roles including leading a global publishing team in statistics & mathematics. Her current focus is on the development and implementation of strategies to enable subject portfolio development and the growth of Wiley’s Open...

Judy Verses joined Elsevier in May 2022 as President, Academic and Government Markets.  Judy’s career reflects her belief in the power of knowledge to enable and transform individuals and communities. She has a strong track record of building trust and of being a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity. Prior to Elsevier, Judy was Executive...

I joined Emerald Publishing in 2012, and subsequently led a range of business functions including content acquisition and management, product and business innovation. Most recently, I led the business as CEO prior to and following its acquisition by Cambridge Information Group. I’m delighted to take up the new role of Chief Officer: Publishing & Strategic Relationships,...