STM People

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.

Andrea Kravetz joined Elsevier in May 2001 as the Vice President for the User Centered Design Department (UCD). The UCD department is an international department responsible for creating the user interface for most of Elsevier’s electronic products.  Under Andrea’s leadership, the department ensures that Elsevier’s electronic products are customer focused and provide ease of use.  The UCD team has been involved in all major...

Bradley E. Gernand manages library and information services for two U.S. Government think tanks:  the Institute for Defense Analyses, serving the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the Science & Technology Policy Institute, serving the President’s science advisor and White House in general.  Gernand has served the institutes since 2001; prior to...

Lou Ann Di Nallo is Director of Content Integration & Analysis, part of R&D Informatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) where her group is responsible for external content provision and literature analytics.  She has been involved with electronic information over her entire career in a variety of roles in both for-profit and nonprofit settings. Prior to...

Tim Collins joined EBSCO in 1987 when the company he co-founded with his stepfather was purchased.   Under the leadership of Tim and his management team, EBSCO Publishing has grown into a key player in the information industry, with it’s EBSCOhost online research service offering over 300 databases to institutions worldwide.  EBSCO Publishing has made nearly...

Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego,  Associate Director of the Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is...

Gretchen M. Bataille served as president of the University of North Texas from 2006 to 2010. Prior to her presidency at UNT, she served for six years as senior vice president for the University of North Carolina system.  Bataille is a noted scholar in the field of American Indian literature and is the author or...