Jennifer is the Managing Editor of the journals The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology at the American Society of Plant Biologists. ASPB also co-publishes (with the Society for Experimental Biology and Wiley) the fully OA sound science journal Plant Direct.
Before working at ASPB, Jennifer was a Publishing Services Group Leader at Sheridan Journal Services, overseeing accounts including ASPB, the American Society of Hematologists, the Endocrine Society, and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Previously, she was employed by Cadmus Journal Services (now Cenveo) as a Journal Production Editor.
Frank Menchaca is a user-and customer-centered developer of information products. He brings several decades of experience to this effort, most recently with Cengage Learning, where he created digital products to match the workflows of students, instructors and professionals in libraries, businesses and schools worldwide. Among the imprints he has run are Gale, National Geographic Learning, Chilton’s, and Professional Trade Reference.
Among Frank’s areas of focus are agile product development, user experience research and persona mapping, and proprietary content development. He has specialized in developing products for global markets, including Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China and the Gulf states.
Frank has also developed and managed strategic partnerships with the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, and many others. A published author, Frank’s writings include journal articles in information science. Among his creative outputs are visual art, music production, poetry, and essays.
He holds a B.A. in Spanish and English Language and Literature from New York University, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, and an M.A. with Honors from Yale University in English Literature. He speaks and writes in Spanish.
Brigitte Shull is the Senior Vice President, USA and the Director of Scholarly Communications R&D at Cambridge University Press. She and her team work on Open Research, Author & Research Services, and Research Integrity and are working to drive activities at Cambridge University Press that contribute to a more impactful, diverse and community-led Open future.
She has held past positions at Pearson Education, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer Nature in both the higher education and scholarly publishing spaces and is involved with the Association of American Publishers, the Society for Scholarly Publishers and the Association of University Presses.
Kevin Fitzpatrick currently serves as President and CEO of Enforme Interactive, a software and services company focused on healthcare related professional associations. Prior to Enforme, he served as senior advisor to PAIGE.AI a computational pathology start-up associated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
From 2015-2018, he served as the first CEO of CancerLinQ™, a rapid learning system for oncology and a subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. (ASCO) There he led CancerLinQ through its rapid nationwide adoption and initial strategic transaction.
Prior to CancerLinQ™, he served for seven years as the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where he jointly led the organization’s overall operational and strategic planning.
Prior to joining the ACC, Mr. Fitzpatrick was Vice President of Business Development for the medical publisher, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Earlier in his career he served as Managing Director of The Duke/Hewlett Packard Center for Outcomes Research and Director of the Trauma Research Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center. He received the Smithsonian Institution/Computer World Healthcare Computing Innovation Award in 1996.
At the American College of Cardiology, Mr. Fitzpatrick was instrumental in the creation and implementation of the Diabetes Collaborative Registry (DCR). The DCR was the first global, cross-specialty clinical diabetes registry designed to track and improve the quality of diabetes and metabolic care across the primary and specialty care continuum. In addition, he was very involved in the growth and development of ACC’s PINNACLE Registry®, cardiology’s largest outpatient quality improvement registry, capturing data on coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
Irina has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and over 8 years of industry work experience. Focusing on finance and strategy in her business school studies, she brings invaluable expertise to the team.
As a bonus, with a Master’s in computer science and extensive experience with Android and iOS mobile application development.
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. She recently concluded as the Director of Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) at Washington University in St. Louis where she led a dynamic team of 25 individuals facilitating biomedical informatics services.
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.
Jaco Zijlstra is VP, Products and Platforms at Springer Nature. Jaco has close to 30 years of experience in the digital publishing business. While he worked in education, business to business and professional publishing for the last 14 years, his experience in scientific publishing stems from 15 years at Elsevier Science prior to that. Until recently he served as Head of Global Product Management in Wolters Kluwer’s Global Platform Organization (GPO), responsible for product development strategy, asset portfolio management, marketing GPO products and services and the overall GPO strategy. At Springer Nature, working closely with Sales and Marketing on the one hand and IT on the other, Jaco’s team is responsible for determining and executing the development of Springer Nature’s portfolio of digital products and online platforms.
William B. Tolman is a chemist whose research encompasses synthetic bioinorganic and organometallic/polymer subfields, key goals being to gain a fundamental understanding of the copper-containing active sites of enzymes of biological and environmental importance and to develop catalysts for converting biomass feedstocks to sustainable plastics.
He obtained a B.S. degree from Wesleyan University, CT, in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow from 1987-1990 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1990, and rose through the ranks there to Distinguished McKnight University Professor. He served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry (2009-2016) and is a member of the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers. He began his current position at Washington University in St. Louis on January 1, 2018.
Among the honors he has received are the Searle Scholars, NSF National Young Investigator, Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards, the Buck-Whitney Medal from the American Chemical Society, a Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and the ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (2017).
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society (ACS). He served as Associate Editor (2009-2012) and now as Editor-in-Chief of the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry (2013-present).
Over the past decade Ashley has worked in both academic and public libraries, focusing on digital inclusion and facilitating access to scholarly content.
She completed her Masters in Library and Information Sciences through the University of Washington’s Information School.
Ashley is an Associate Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity she focuses on the foundation’s Open Access Policy’s implementation and associated initiatives. This includes overseeing Chronos, a platform and service used by the foundation to manage grantee’s research outputs.
As well as, leading the work of Gates Open Research, a transparent and revolutionary publishing platform. Other core activities involve supporting the strategic and operational aspects of the foundation’s library. This work has sparked a passion for open access, believing that freely accessible knowledge has the power to improve and save lives.
Phil Meyler is Publishing Development Director for Science, Engineering and Medicine at Cambridge University Press, where he manages a team (based in Cambridge, New York and Beijing) that publishes around 350 new books each year. Phil worked for several years in the US for Cambridge University Press and John Wiley & Sons, and has 27 years’ experience in scientific publishing. He holds a DPhil in physics from the University of Oxford.
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