STM People

Rachel Burley has been a leader in the research communications and open science space for more than 20 years. She is currently the Chief Publications Officer for the American Physical Society, publisher of the Physical Review journals. Her background in business development and publishing has pushed leading-edge trends in scientific, technical, and medical publishing and...

Dr. Alexia Hudson-Ward is Dean of the Library and University Librarian at Georgetown University, where she is the chief administrative officer of one of the world’s leading research libraries. She is also President-Elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Her multi-sector career spanning business, higher education, and the nonprofit sector informs her...

Cathy Holland is Director of Global Publisher Business Development at Digital Science, where she works with leading publishing organizations to implement technology that supports innovation in scholarly communication. In her role, she focuses on building partnerships around tools and data solutions that help publishers improve insights, workflows, and decision-making. Prior to Digital Science, she spent...

Melissa Junior serves as Chief Publishing Officer at the American Society for Microbiology. With a background in scientific publishing focused on society-based journals and open access transitions, she provides strategic, editorial, and commercial leadership for ASM’s portfolio of peer-reviewed journals and books. Under her leadership, ASM has launched new titles, built an editorial development team...

Tim Vines is the Founder and CEO at DataSeer. Prior to that he founded Axios Review, an independent peer review company that helped authors find journals that wanted their paper. He was the Managing Editor for the journal Molecular Ecology for eight years, where he led their adoption of data sharing and numerous other initiatives....

Jennifer Regala is the Senior Director, Publishing and Product Development, at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, where she oversees ACOG’s journals publishing program, product development, consumer books, and the patient education site. Most recently, Jennifer was the Associate Director, Publishing, at Wolters Kluwer Health, where she oversaw award-winning news magazine publications, including Oncology Times, Emergency...

Rachel Bock has worked at Wiley for more than 18 years. She began working in the Atypon team in 2022, where she leads product management for content and identity capabilities and works to ensure customers generate maximum value from all Atypon products and solutions. She currently represents Wiley on the STM Standards & Technology Committee....

Jessica Sebeok, who is based in Washington, D.C., is Wiley’s Vice President for Global Government Partnerships and Public Policy. In this role, she oversees Wiley’s efforts to advocate for favorable legislative, regulatory, and policy climates around the world to enable and further Wiley’s mission to unlock human potential. Jessica came to Wiley from Johns Hopkins...

Paul Gee, currently Vice President of Product at JAMA, brings twenty-five years of experience driving innovation in scholarly publishing and medical education. Paul’s areas of expertise include publishing strategy, product development, customer research, and operational engineering—all focused on one goal: delivering innovative publishing solutions to speed the delivery of the world’s most critical content.

Amy Kullas, Ph.D., is the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)’s Ethics Director. Kullas is responsible for oversight and management of ASM’s organizational ethics policies and procedures program. She oversees and facilitates the reporting process, discussions, and resolution of allegations relating to science ethics, misconduct, and harassment. Kullas came to ASM from the National Institutes of...