STM People

Stephen Dunn is Head of Technology Strategy for Guardian News and Media in the UK. He joined the Guardian in 1999 and has helped guide the technology strategy for the guardian.co.uk multiple award winning network of web sites and services since. At the Guardian Stephen has led several platform initiatives, including the rebuild of the...

Hazel Woodward has been University Librarian and Director of the University Press at Cranfield University for over 10 years. Prior to that she was at Loughborough University as Head of Electronic Information Services. Hazel’s research interests include electronic publishing and scholarly communication (the subject of her PhD thesis) and she has published many papers in...

David Sommer has over fifteen years’ experience in the global publishing industry. He has worked for Blackwell Publishing and Macmillan Publishing Solutions and has developed a range of successful products including Blackwell Synergy, ContentStore, ScholarlyStats, MPS Insight and RiskCheck. David created David Sommer Consulting in February 2009 to help grow people and grow businesses in...

Dr Peter T ShepherdIn a career spanning over three decades, Peter Shepherd has become intimately acquainted with most aspects of STM journal, book and database publishing, having worked as a publisher with Wiley, Pergamon, Elsevier and Harcourt. Since 2002 Dr Shepherd has been Director of COUNTER, the not-for-profit international organization whose mission is to improve...

Tansy Matthews, Associate Director for Technology Support at the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), has worked extensively on developing local solutions to managing and manipulating use data, particularly COUNTER reports. She has traveled internationally to lead workshops on managing and presenting use data. Most recently, Ms.Matthews worked with Project COUNTER to develop a tool for the batch retrieval of COUNTER...

Laura leads Ringgold’s operations including finance, production and general operational processes. She remains active in Ringgold’s outward facing activities. She sits on the ISNI Board and several steering committees in the scholarly communications environment. She was a publishing consultant for ten years, working with a variety of international clients including publishers, intermediaries and trade associations....

Joanne Padrón Carney joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997 as the Director for the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.  She manages all activities of the Center, including production of the newsletter Science and Technology in Congress; tracking legislation related to a wide range of policy issues that impact the...

Tracey Brown OBE is the director of Sense about Science, where she has turned the case for sound science and evidence into popular campaigns, including AllTrials, a global campaign for the reporting of all clinical trial outcomes.   Tracey leads Sense about Science’s work on transparency of decisions, to ensure the public has access to...

Chris Biemesderfer manages the journal publishing program for the American Astronomical Society. He has been involved with the AAS’ journals for twenty-five years. He was named to his present position in 2007. A long time ago, he was actually trained as an astronomer, but he doesn’t have a clue what dark matter is either, so...

Bob Wing Graduated from University of North Carolina in Mathematics, worked 27 years for Information Handling Services and retired as President and CEO in 2001.   Bob formed his present company in 2005 and his main office is in Miami. Other branch offices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. Bob is married and has...