STM People

Christopher A. Padilla is Managing Director of C&M International, Ltd. He advises clients on international business, trade, and investment matters with a particular focus on Asia, Latin America, export controls, foreign direct investment reviews, and market access issues.   Prior to joining C&M International, Mr. Padilla served as Under Secretary for International Trade of the...

Eric Massant develops and implements strategies to advance positive government policies and build external relationships.  He serves in leadership positions related to publishing and information industry public policies at a number of coalitions and trade associations. Mr. Massant has also served on U.S. government advisory groups and testified before the U.S. Congress.   Prior to joining...

Keith M. Kupferschmid is the Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Mr. Kupferschmid is responsible for working directly with SIIA’s Intellectual Property Committee to establish SIIA positions and moving the SIIA agenda on issues relating to intellectual property. He also supervises the Association’s Anti-Piracy...

Peter Givler is Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses and President of the International Federation of Scholarly Publishers.  He was a member of the Section 108 Study Group, which submitted its final report to the Librarian of Congress last year, and is chair of the International Publishers Association’s Copyright Committee.  His articles...

Sir John Enderby is a past Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society. He is a Senior Research Fellow and H.O. Wills Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the University of Bristol and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985 and...

Reed Elfenbein is Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing for Wiley-Blackwell, the STMS business of John Wiley & Sons. She leads the sales and marketing teams who are responsible for sales of all Wiley-Blackwell publications through all sales channels worldwide and is a member of the Wiley-Blackwell Leadership team.  Reed is very involved in...

Mills Davis is founder and managing director of Project10X, a research consultancy that specializes in next internet semantic technologies, applications, infrastructure, markets, business models, strategy, and advanced solution development. Mills is active in both government and industry-wide technology initiatives that are advancing cloud computing, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 semantic technologies.   Mills directs the...

Born in 1962, Thomas Connertz studied Social Sciences at the universities of Marburg and Hamburg, Germany. After various positions in the field of marketing consultancy, he worked as an editor for an Open University and developed concepts for e-learning software. In 1999, he joined Thieme Publishing Group, based in Stuttgart and New York City, as...

Karen Butter has worked at the University of California, San Francisco since 1992 and as University Librarian since 2000. At UCSF she has lead the transformation to the digital library.  In 1994 she was part of Red Sage, a pilot project to test online journals.    She lead the creation of a digital library of more...

Amy Brand is currently Program Manager of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. The OSC oversees the mechanisms by which the fruits of scholarship are communicated within and without the University, with a special aim to increase the availability of the scholarly output of the University and maximize the efficiency with which scholarly materials are...