STM People

Patrick Thibor has a Ph. D. in computer science and started his career as project engineer and consultant at Hewlett Packard. He was responsible for the implementation of technical information systems for clients as BMW, Daimler and Heidelberger Druck.  Since 2001 Patrick Thibor has worked for Springer and is now in the position of Global...

Sue Joshua is Legal Director, STMS and Europe at John Wiley & Sons, with responsibility for providing legal support to Wiley’s global STMS publishing operations, as well as its operations in EMEA.  Sue and her team of lawyers work on all aspects of intellectual property, contract and commercial work, corporate organization,  and compliance.  Sue practiced...

David Inglis has broad experience at executive level in the publishing and library sectors. As a publisher, David managed STM and educational European subsidiaries for News International and Thomson International Publishing. The output of the latter included the first wave of online scholarly journals and innovative database products. During his five years as Director of...

Helmut Hartmann is the managing director of the Austrian Academic Consortium. His academic background includes studies in German Language and Literature, Anglistics, Pedagogics and Library and Information Science. After teaching in public and private institutions for more than two decades, Helmut joined Graz University Library in 1995. There he established the university’s E-Journal and E-Book...

In his current position as Customer Development Manager, Arthur Eger is responsible for Customer Marketing activities in Library & Governmental markets in Germany, Holland, United Kingdom, France and South Africa. Before this position, Arthur worked in various marketing and sales roles for a large number of leading publishers and journal agents in Europe. Arthur is...

Gary Coker is currently Director of Research & Development at MetaPress, where he is responsible for guiding research into emerging technologies, user experience, and best practices for the world’s largest primary host of scholarly e-content. A long time veteran of the e-content industry and a computer scientist by training, Mr. Coker managed the creation of...

Yvonne Campfens is a consultant with 25 years in publishing. Early in her career she held a publishing position at Elsevier Science and thereafter various positions at Swets Subscription Service, including in publisher relations and as business partner to ALPSP in managing the ALJC (ALPSP Learned Journals Collection). From 2007 – 2012 she led the...

Caroline Black is Editorial Director at BioMed Central with responsibility for the BMC series of journals, the medical evidence portfolio, and the peer review excellence group. Previously she was Managing Director of Portland Press and Group Head of Publishing for the Biochemical Society, and has also held senior positions at Mac Keith Press, Blackwell Publishing,...

Suzan Fiack is Business Development Director, Local Markets in the Global Corporate Sales Team at Wiley-Blackwell. She manages a European sales and editorial team, builds relationships with corporate customers and identifies new product and market opportunities. She is an author of the Wiley-Blackwell Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics. Suzan received her PhD in pharmacy...

Joachim Engelland is the part time Director of Education and Training for STM since April 2009. Joachim has spent 14 years in the publishing industry, working in industry information publishing, educational publishing and scholarly publishing.  In 2001 he joined Walter de Gruyter, where he organized and managed the eJournals and eBooks business. In January 2009...