STM People

Ruth Jones is Director of Publisher Business Development for Ingram Digital in EMEA.  She joined Ingram Digital from the British Library where she was Head of Product Development, responsible for the development of information products and services. Prior to that, Ruth was General Manager of Extenza e-Publishing. Ruth was Sales and Marketing Director for Thomson...

Eileen Dolan is the Director of Market Development for Wiley-Blackwell, focusing on new markets and analyzing business opportunities for Wiley-Blackwell journals, books and services.   Previously at Wiley, Eileen served as the Director of Sales, Asia Pacific,  for Wiley InterScience, based in Singapore, and as  Director of  Wiley InterScience Development. Wiley InterScience is an online...

Richard Charkin is a Director of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc group (http://www.bloomsbury.com/ andhttp://www.berlinverlage.de/) whose authors include J.K.Rowling, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Littell, Ingo Schulz, John Irving, William Boyd and many others. He is also a non-executive director of Melbourne University Publishing in Australia (http://www.mup.com.au/), John Wisden (the world’s leading cricket books – http://www.cricshop.com/Wisden-Almanacks/2008-Wisden-Cricketers-Almanack-Hardback.aspx ). He is a member...

An STM professional for seven years, Brian Bishop is currently responsible for the development and launch of new electronic products at Springer, the most recent of which is the free analytic tool called AuthorMapper (authormapper.com), and Springer Protocols (springerprotocols.com). Brian has held various positions within Springer including Marketing Special Projects Manager and Product Manager for...

Daniel Tunkelang is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Endeca, a leading enterprise search vendor. He studied math and computer science at MIT, and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. Before joining Endeca’s founding team, he worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and AT&T Bell Labs. Daniel is a passionate...

As the National Science Foundation’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Dr. George O. Strawn guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology, working to enable NSF staff and the international community of scientists, engineers and educators to improve business practices and pursue new methods of scientific communication, collaboration and decision-making.   Since...

Justin Spence is a principle in Publisher Solutions International (PSI) – a consulting firm that specializes in helping publishers maximize institutional subscription sales and revenues.  He also presently serves as Publishing Consultant for The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and has worked in a similar capacity for a number of STM publishers including the...

Mark Seeley has been the General Counsel for Elsevier, the leading global publisher and analytics provider for the scientific research and health markets, and has split his time between the Cambridge, Massachusetts office in the US and the Amsterdam headquarters. Mark has led a global Elsevier team of 17 lawyers (along with a Rights & Permissions...

Patrick Ross has been analyzing, writing and speaking about the digital economy since 1995, following service on Capitol Hill for Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). He is the Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance, a federation of unions, corporations, trade associations and individual artists from creative industries including motion pictures; music and compositions; book, magazine, journal...

As Technical Architect at Publishing Technology, Priya Parvatikar is responsible for the technical strategy of Publishing Technology’s online products including the pub2web publishing platform and IngentaConnect. Priya’s eight years experience in the online publishing industry encompasses extensive design and development of Publishing Technology’s key software applications, including the award-winning MetaStore as well as custom built...