Simon Beale is a part of Judy Verses’ Research Leadership Team and leads both Research Sales and the Research Society Services business development group at Wiley. His top priority is to deliver the world’s best level of sales service to our global library and corporate customers and to develop business relationships with potential society partners, where there is mutual opportunity for strategic collaboration.
Simon has held a variety of global and regional sales and marketing leadership roles in the publishing and information industries during his thirty year career. Prior to joining Wiley, Simon was a member of the executive leadership team at ProQuest, spending seven years leading their global sales organization across academic, public, corporate and government segments, doubling revenues during a period of strong organic growth and acquisitions. Simon’s most recent role at ProQuest was as GM on the leadership team for all products and services to global Government, Public Library, K-14 segments. Simon has been with Wiley for four years and has worked with both the Knowledge & Learning business and, more recently, in the Research business.
Nobuko Miyairi is a freelance consultant/analyst, based in Tokyo, Japan. She provides strategic consulting for new business development and start-up in STM publishing and scholarly communications. Her service caters to a wide range of needs from academic societies, research institutions, publishers and solution vendors. She also serves as Affiliate Fellow, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Japan (2018-); Expert Panel, International Strategy Committee, University of Tsukuba (2012-2015, 2018-); Member, Digital Library Committee, National Institute for Materials Science (2016-).
Previously Nobuko served as Regional Director, Asia Pacific for ORCID (http://orcid.org) and built relationships with stakeholders across Asia Pacific to expand ORCID adoption and awareness in the research community. Prior to joining ORCID, Nobuko held positions at Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics) and Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature), where she worked closely with research organizations, government policy makers and funding bodies to provide solutions for research management and promotions. A librarian by training, Nobuko earned an MLIS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
As the President and CEO of Gigantum, Tyler Whitehouse tempers a research mathematician’s disposition with years of practical, client facing experience as a data science consultant.
After a mathematics PhD from the University of Minnesota, he did a postdoctoral stint at Vanderbilt University working with the approximation theory group there. He then spent six years managing machine learning programs for US agencies such as DARPA, ARPA-E, and IARPA.
In 2017 he joined the other founders of Gigantum in their quest to improve how the world creates, shares and finds computational research and data science.
Leading business strategy and operations, he focuses on executing the company’s vision to deploy an open source technology that reduces technical asymmetries between research producers and consumers, enables the rapid dissemination of research and customized code, and promotes global access to best that science has to offer.
Karin C. Lilja is Scientific Program Manager at Breast Cancer Research Foundation. As part of BCRF’s Research Program staff, Karin manages BCRF’s annual grants programs, as well as special projects within the BCRF breast cancer research grants portfolio. BCRF’s Research team works collaboratively with the organization to effectuate on BCRF’s mission to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world’s most promising research.
Karin obtained her a PhD from NYU Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences in 2018, where she investigated mechanisms regulating muscle stem cells. She moved to the United States from Sweden in 2008, representing Uppsala University as an exchange student at Cornell University. With a curiosity for stem cell and cancer biology, she pursued research, at Cornell, relating to these fields in a laboratory studying hair biology and skin cancer.
Prior to joining BCRF in September 2018, Karin worked with a team of scientists at NYU Langone Health’s Pathology Department to perform big data analyses aimed at discovering new melanoma treatments.
While pursuing university studies, Karin represented students at Uppsala University’s Faculty of Medicine, and she also worked to promote interests in math, physics, chemistry, biology and technology by organizing national and international science exhibitions, in Sweden, for young scientists.
Irina is a co-founder and CFO of protocols.io. She has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School
of Management and years of industry work experience.
Having focused on finance and strategy in her business school studies, she brings invaluable expertise to the team as she helps to guide protocols.io to financial sustainability.
(Fun fact: with a Master’s in computer science, Irina did some of the early coding for protocols.io in the company’s first days.)
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 a San Francisco based VC firm.
Dr. McIntosh has a focus of assessing and improving the full research cycle (data collection, management, sharing, discoverability) and making the research process reproducible. She holds a Masters and PhD in Public Health with concentrations in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Saint Louis University.
Dr. Leslie McIntosh currently serves in two positions. She is the inaugural Executive Director for the Research Data Alliance – US (RDA-US), which is part of a global organization developing recommendations for data sharing and interoperability. She is also the founder and CEO of Ripeta, LLC, a company formed to improve scientific research reproducibility.
Before transitioning as the CEO of Ripeta, she spent 10 years at Washington University in St. Louis (WU) as the Director of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) serving the WU Center for Translational and Siteman Cancer Center. In that capacity, she led a dynamic team of 25 individuals (one-half of whom identify as women) and a multi-million dollar annual budget facilitating biomedical informatics services including the software and service development to assess and improve the full biomedical research cycle.
Dr. McIntosh has experience leading diverse teams to develop and deliver meaningful data to improve scientific decisions. She is an accomplished data scientist and an internationally known consultant, speaker, and trainer who is passionate about mentoring the next generation.
Raj Goel, CISSP, is an author, entrepreneur, IT expert and industry leader that specializes in the field of cyber security and privacy law. As founder of Brainlink, Raj has spent more than 25 years developing proven IT solutions for a range of high-profile clients in the financial, construction, architectural and property management industries.
His uniquely developed SOPCulture Process (winner of 2015 SmartCEO’s Culture Award) has changed the way his clients think about documentation by showing them how to develop processes for documentation of each and every task, allowing them to rapidly increase productivity, eliminate redundancies and increase quality of service to their clients.
As a 25+ year veteran of the tech industry, Raj has promoted awareness of surveillance & privacy through his published books, which include:
- UNPLUGGED Luddites’ Guide To Cybersecurity
- The Most Important Secrets To Getting Great Results From IT
As a thought leader in the field of cyber security, Raj has become an expected presence at many of the county’s most notable conferences and gatherings of industry members. Just a few of his recent public appearances include:
- “Eat, Sleep, Surveil, Repeat”, NYS CyberSecurity
- “Mouseveillance”, NYS Cybersecurity
- “Life Of A Child”, ASIS
Keynote Speaker:
- “Panopticon”, NCSL, Government of Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands
- “Rise of Government & Corporate Surveillance” Government Of Curacao
- “What should MSP’s know about compliance?”, Datto
On-Air Television Cybersecurity Expert
Raj regularly appears on a number of national news channels such as Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, Columbia News Tonight and more to discuss relevant cybersecurity topics.
See for yourself at https://www.brainlink.com/tv/.
Olivier, based in London, has acquired 20 years of experience in software Product Management and Big Data from enterprise software and workflow solutions to e-commerce and ad solutions. He joined Elsevier in 2012 after years in Silicon Valley, where he worked with eBay and AT&T Interactive. He has spent his career both in start-ups and Fortune 500 companies growing revenues and bottom lines using Iterative Data Driven Product Development, Analytics, AB testing, Big Data, Search, Mobile and Social.
Olivier holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in business management from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
Josh Nicholson is co-founder and CEO of scite.ai, a next-generation citation index that puts citations into context.
Previously, he was the founder and CEO of the Winnower and CEO of Authorea, two companies aimed at improving how scientists publish and collaborate.
He holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from Virginia Tech, where his research focused on the effects of aneuploidy on chromosome segregation in cancer.
Lettie Y. Conrad, Ph.D., is an independent researcher and consultant, leveraging a variety of R&D methods to drive product strategy and evidence-based decisions.
Lettie’s specialties sit at the intersection of information experience and digital product design. As VP and Lead Analyst for scholarly communications at Outsell, Inc.,
Lettie is bringing more than 20 years’ industry experience to information, data, and analytics providers. She also serves as Senior Advisor to DeepDyve and Product Experience consultant to LibLynx.
Read more about Lettie on LinkedIn, ORCID or Twitter.
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