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Derk Haank was appointed CEO of Springer Science+Business Media in February 2004. After obtaining a degree in economics and business administration and spending a few years as a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he began his career in publishing in 1986 at Elsevier Science, where he held various management positions, spending part of this time...

Cynthia Cleto is the Global Manager for eBooks at Springer Science+Business Media. She is responsible for market penetration, product development, and other commercial aspects of the Springer eBook Collection. Prior to Springer, Cynthia worked to help launch a number of innovative products in the electronic space – these consist of A&I and Chemistry Databases for...

Michael Nielsen is a writer working on a book about how the internet is changing the way scientific discoveries are made. In a past life Michael was a theoretical physicist who co-authored the standard text on quantum computing — now one of the ten most cited books in the history of physics.  He’s written 60...

Ken Rhodes has been the Sales & Marketing Director at Continuum since 2006. He has a particular interest in supply chain and operational issues, be that orthodox stock management, digital asset management, POD and the potential for distributed print or the development of marketing databases, title data and sales reporting tools. He is responsible for...

Dr. Emma Coonan is Research Skills and Development Librarian at Cambridge University Library. She directs and teaches on the Research Skills Programme, which aims to support and expand the information skills of students, researchers, academics and readers across the University of Cambridge. She is involved with promoting the Library’s resources and services through news feeds,...

Christopher Bennett is responsible for OUP’s Online Sales department, which supplies online products and e-books to library markets worldwide (outside the Americas), via direct sales as well as through the aggregation and distribution channels.  Previously, he was International Sales Manager in Online Sales, and Library Sales Manager (Africa, Eastern Europe and Middle East) for OUP...

Throughout her career in publishing Martha Sedgwick has worked in innovation roles that aim to create new value for customers. Starting in Macmillan in the strategy department and then the tech start-up: MPS Technologies, Martha built out product management skills working develop content delivery platforms for publishing customers and a usage statistics aggregation tool for...

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology and Head of Department at the University of York. His direct involvement in archaeological computing began in 1980 when he undertook a PhD on pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon burial ritual using the computing power of an ICL mainframe and an early Z80 micro-computer. Since 1996 he has been Director of the...

Wulf D. v. Lucius Born 1938. Diploma in economics 1965, Ph. D. 1967 1969-1995 partner and chief executive officer in the family owned company Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. Since 1996 publisher of Lucius & Lucius (economics and sociology) Since 1970 engaged in honorary positions in the book trade, nationally and internationally with a focus on copyright,...

Alan Jarvis is the global director of Social Science Books at Routledge, managing a team of editors based in the UK, US and Singapore. Since starting at Croom Helm in 1986, he has held a number of different positions within Routledge and associated imprints, working under 5 different owners.