STM People

Claudia Russo is STM’s Director, Public Affairs EU and Global Deputy Director, Public Affairs — leading public affairs initiatives across Europe and supporting STM’s global policy & advocacy strategy. Since joining STM in April 2020, Claudia has been instrumental in gathering political intelligence, crafting effective public affairs strategies, and building strong relationships with European institutions and stakeholders...

Lauren Kane is CEO of BioOne, the nonprofit collaborative and content aggregator for more than 150 scientific societies, museums, research organizations, and independent presses across the world. She has held this role since 2022, leading an ambitious strategic agenda that includes the creation of new Open Access pathways and the challenge of scaling with equity, sustainability,...

Henning Schoenenberger runs a global Data Development department at Springer Nature, finding cutting-edge responses to key problems in the research and library communities in areas such as access, analytics and machine-learning as well as content and data delivery models and discovery.

Stephanie Veldman is Head of Open Research at Brill, where she is responsible for the development of models and services to grow Open Research in HSS. She has been involved with Brill’s Open Access program from the start. She also gained experience with institutional OA publishing at Utrecht University’s journal publishing program. Back at Brill since...

Erin is the Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center leading a team of Strategic and Key Account Managers who manage relationships, engagement, and service enrollment for publishers across the market including STM, research, trade, news, standards, and more. In her current role, Erin is responsible for representing CCC within the publisher market and...

Hiromitsu (Hiro) Urakami is Editorial Developmental Manager for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) based in Tokyo, Japan. He also holds a position as a Manager for Royal Society of Chemistry Japan KK. He is responsible for the business strategy, vision, and implementation plan for RSC activities in Japan, as well as product strategies for...

Victoria (Torie) Eva serves as Policy Director in the Access and Policy team at Elsevier, responsible for oversight, coordination and development of policy and legislative issues related to Open Science. Victoria covers outreach to key policy contacts, and represents Elsevier’s positioning on Open Science. Prior to her role at Elsevier, Victoria was Global Policy Manager...

Joyce Lorigan is a member of Springer Nature’s Executive Team, serving as Group Head of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability. She brings over 25 years of experience in communications and marketing, having held senior roles at global consumer brands including IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) and The Walt Disney Company, as well as in technology start-ups. Joyce...

Dr. Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH is the founder and CEO who is an internationally known consultant, speaker, and researcher passionate about mentoring the next generation of data scientists. She is active in the Research Data Alliance, grew the St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup to over 1500 participants, and was a fellow with...

Sameer is an entrepreneur with the passion for turning ideas into real businesses. As the Founder and CEO of Impelsys Inc., he drives Impelsys’ business vision, strategy, value and growth. Impelsys is his second start-up and he has grown the company into a market leader in digital content and learning delivery solutions for the global...