STM People

Laurel L. Haak drives awareness of the ORCID mission, building strategic relationships, working with a broad range of constituents, ensuring organizational persistence, and directing ORCID staff and contractors. Previously, Laure was Chief Science Officer at Discovery Logic, Inc.; a program officer for the US National Academies’ Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; and editor...

Hylke Koers is the Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, STM’s operational arm which develops and manages shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. He is responsible for the STM Integrity Hub and serves as program director for GetFTR and SeamlessAccess. Before joining STM, Hylke worked in several senior technology and product...

Sarah Tegen, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Chief Publishing Officer, ACS Publications, at the American Chemical Society. She leads the development of ACS’s pre-eminent portfolio of ninety hybrid and open-access journals, oversees the award-winning news magazine Chemical & Engineering News, manages the development of the ACS books program, and heads strategic planning and relationship...

Diane Wang, Business Development Manager at BioMed Central (BMC), runs the BMC commercial team in China and is responsible for the overall business development of BMC and SpringerOpen in C! hina. Diane joined BMC in February 2010 as its first employee in Asia and helped to build up the China operation for the Open Access...

Ian Mulvany is CTO at BMJ. Previously, he was head of transformation at SAGE Publishing. He helped set up SAGE’s methods innovation incubator SAGE Ocean, following a lean product development approach. He ran technology operations for eLife, was head of product for Mendeley, and ran a number of early web2.0 products for Nature Publishing Group....

David Weinreich, Director of Public Affairs, Americas has worked with STM to support STM’s public affairs activity since 2011. In his role as Director of Public Affairs for the Americas, he provides strategic advice, messaging development, political intelligence and lobbying to help publishers communicate their positions and goals to governments throughout the Americas, with a...

Dr. Phill Jones is a technologist, entrepreneur, product leader, strategic analyst, and consultant. His current role is co-founder, digital and technology at MoreBrains Cooperative, where he acts as a principal consultant for a range of clients in open science infrastructure, scholarly publishing, and digital product innovation. Immediately prior to MoreBrains, Phill was running his own...

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the Data & Analytics Tool. She also serves as Outreach Manager for GetFTR and SeamlessAccess. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for the MIT Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX (formerly...

Joyce Li is Journal Development Manager with BioMed Central, based in Beijing. She is responsible for growing the BioMed Central portfolio of Open Access journals originating from China, including new start ups, society journals and journals transferring to BioMed Central. She also plays a key role in promoting these journals and other aspects of journal...

Sarah Fricker is the Senior Group Legal Adviser for the Institute of Physics group with responsibility for providing legal advice and support to group companies based around the world, including the US, China, Japan and mainland Europe.  Her team works on all areas of legal work including copyright, commercial and licences.  Before joining the Institute...