STM People

Martijn Roelandse has over 20 years of scholarly publishing and bio-medical research experience.  He is Consultant at martijnroelandse.dev, where he helps startups in the digital publishing space such as SciScore to blossom, and Partner at Park 56, an independent advisory firm for corporate finance and strategy solutions. Martijn is driven by a huge curiosity for technology and is an...

Rob Johnson is the Managing Director of Research Consulting, a mission-driven business which works to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. Rob’s career represents a full-circle journey: beginning with a degree in English Studies, he subsequently worked as a consultant with KPMG, the international professional services firm, and spent four years as...

Formerly a medical doctor, clinical researcher, and medical journal editor, Jigisha is an independent research integrity specialist and founder of Jigisha Patel Research Integrity Limited. After completing her PhD at the University of London, UK, Jigisha moved into academic publishing where she led the first team in publishing that was fully dedicated to maintaining research integrity....

Caroline Sutton is CEO for the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Prior to joining STM Caroline served as Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis. She co-founded Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in Open Access Publishing and was one of the founders and first President of OASPA where she served on...

From a background in scientific research, Simone Taylor has a passion both for helping authors maintain an archivable record of their work in the scientific literature, and for improving accessibility to that vast and growing body of scholarship. Starting her publishing career out at Elsevier, via the National Physical Laboratory and Wiley, she has considerable...

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....