STM People

Bob Howard, Executive Vice President of Global Research I joined SAGE in 2000, working in a number of roles in the Journals Editorial Department.  In 2011, I was promoted to Vice President and head of the Research Pillar Senior Management Group (RPSMG).  Today, I lead SAGE’s Research Pillar as we deliver high-quality research in support...

Daan du Toit started his career in the South African Government with the then Department of Foreign Affairs where he trained as a diplomat, serving at the South African Mission to the European Union (EU), where he was responsible from 1997 to 2000 for the early implementation of the South Africa – EU Science and...

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics, has been part of the knowledge community since 2001. She held roles within and consulted for learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial, and executive functions, before setting up Mellins-Cohen Consulting in 2020. In 2022, she started running COUNTER, the standard for usage metrics, which became...

Atul Goel is a global business and technology executive with more than three decades of experience transforming and scaling businesses across content, technology, operations, and marketing services. He is President of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL) and Continuum Marketing,  part of CJK Group, where he leads content services and marketing execution businesses. Atul has built, scaled,...

Todd Toler is the inaugural practice lead for AI in scholarly communication at Ithaka S+R, where he advises publishers, libraries, platforms, and funders on AI strategy and works to build shared approaches to the infrastructure challenges of the agent era, from provenance and rights signaling to common standards for evaluating whether AI tools meet scholarly...

Laura Hassink is President – Journals, overseeing more than 3000 journals and publishing over 700,000 research articles annually. She is committed to promoting inclusion in research. Laura has been instrumental in accelerating Elsevier’s substantial progress in open access publishing, now offering more than 900 gold open access journals. During her 29 years with Elsevier, she...

Todd Carpenter joined the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) in 2006 as Executive Director. In this role, Todd leads the association in the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, discovery, and effective interchange of information in publishing and media. Over the course of his career, he has served in a...

Senior Vice President, Researcher & Librarian Solutions, Elsevier Rose L’Huillier has spent over two decades at Elsevier in publishing, strategy, and product leadership, and now leads product strategy for Elsevier’s researcher and librarian-facing portfolio, including products like ScienceDirect and Scopus. Her and her team’s daily purpose is to help researchers deliver mission-critical insights and be...

Ryan Davies is a scholarly publishing professional with over eight years’ experience leading and managing academic journals across the physical sciences, engineering and technology. As Portfolio Manager at Academia.edu, he leads a team responsible for developing a growing list of open access titles.  Ryan has previously held editorial roles at Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, and the Institution of Engineering...

Akila joined the Publishing Industry in September 2018 as an Associate Editor with BMC (part of Springer Nature), working with OA Journals within the BMC Series Journals Group. She then moved to manage a team of Editors at Scientific Reports (also part of Springer Nature) and helped establish their first editorial team in India.  After 8...