STM People

Rebecca Cullen has worked as Senior Online Product Development Manager at OUP since 2008, where she has been responsible for developing their first born-digital product, Oxford Bibliographies Online. Prior to that, she had a varied career in print publishing in the UK (journals, looseleafs, academic monographs, illustrated history), before relocating to the US in 2004...

Peter Burnhill is Director of EDINA, www.edina.ac.uk, the JISC UK National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Once a researcher and statistician with the Scottish Education Data Archive, in 1984 he began a career providing data services, first establishing the University’s Data Library, becoming co-director of the ESRC Regional Research Laboratory for Scotland to promote the value of geographical information...

Laura Brown is the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Research for ITHAKA, and Managing Director of Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R supports innovation by working with universities, libraries, professional societies, museums and archives, and scholarly initiatives to develop sustainable business models, and by conducting research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the...

Geraldine Billingham joined Berg Publishers as Editorial Director in 2009.  Her career in publishing began at Pergamon where she majored in reference works in the Social Sciences (and minored in ‘special projects’ for Robert Maxwell and family).   Following Elsevier’s acquisition of Pergamon in 1991, she developed and managed a diverse programme of journals, books and...

Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, and member of the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and mathematics at Dartmouth College and his graduate work at the Harvard Department of Scociology, receiving his degree in 1977. After leaving Harvard, he did a one year post-doctoral fellowship...

Andrea Powell acts as STM’s Director of Outreach and Publisher Coordinator for the Research4Life initiative, a public-private partnership which offers free or very low cost access to scholarly books, journals and other resources for researchers and clinicians in the developing world. Some 200 publishers make their content available through Research4Life, and the other partners in...

Over the last 25 years, Dan has specialized in digital publishing strategy and product innovation for companies in STM and Legal publishing. As Chief Digital Officer of Delta Think, Dan works with publishing organisations to help them successfully explore and exploit new digital opportunities. He is the principal architect of the Delta Think Open Access...

Audrey Melkin spent 20 years in sales and marketing positions focused on libraries and scholarly content at Oxford University Press, John Wiley, and Henry Holt.  She entered the electronic publishing world as VP, Sales/ North America for CatchWord in 1999.   She continued at Ingenta as VP/Publisher Relations and then in May 2003 she joined Atypon...

Deborah Lenares is currently Manager of Acquisitions, Serials and Interlibrary Loan for the libraries at Wellesley College.  She also serves as the Collection Manager for the Sciences at Wellesley.  She previously worked in a corporate library where she migrated the collections and services from print to web based.  Deborah has a B.S. in Chemistry and...

Jason Hoyt PHD is the Research Director at Mendeley.com where he oversees R&D grants, the recommendation engine, literature search, data mining, and the API platform. He holds a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University.