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In July of 2018, Christopher Jannuzzi became the 5^th Executive Director and CEO of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), charged with stewarding the 100+ year-old organization into its second century of advancing theory and practice at the forefront of electrochemical and solid state science and technology.

What initially attracted Chris to ECS was Free the Science, a bold, business-model changing initiative aimed at democratizing research by making the Society’s world-class research freely available to all readers, while remaining free for authors to publish… true platinum open access.  It is a new publishing standard for ECS, one of the last independent, nonprofit scientific society publishers.

Prior to joining ECS, Chris was as the Executive Director of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and the IEEE Photonics Society, providing Chris with the opportunity to have impact on cross-society strategic vision in addition to managing the societies’ day-to-day operations.  Beyond his work with technical societies, Chris helped lead the IEEE Internet Initiative which raised the Institute’s influence and profile in the areas of Internet governance and cybersecurity by providing a consensus of sound technical and scientific knowledge to the technology policy development process. 

Chris received his undergraduate degree from New York University and holds a MA in Organization and Leadership from Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

Thomas Costabile was named Executive Director/CEO, of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in May of 2018. He is an accomplished executive with a strong track record of delivering successful results for large global organizations while leading them through significant change. 

Costabile is responsible for implementing the Society’s strategy focused on the creation of products, services and programs around ASME’s initial core technologies – manufacturing, bioengineering, robotics, clean energy, and pressure technology. He is also responsible for guiding organizational programs in code and standards development, membership, conferences, technical publishing, education and professional development, and public policy. From his base at ASME’s global headquarters in New York City, he oversees ASME’s strategic initiatives, finance, operations and staff.  

Most recently, Costabile served as a consultant for Carlan Advisors and as a partner at 3ssentials, LLC, where he advised boards, senior executives, private equity sponsors and investors. In these roles, he was successful in analyzing businesses and developing strategic initiatives to ensure profitability as well as implementing and monitoring projects to profitability.   

Costabile is a trained mechanical engineer and began his career in the nuclear power industry. He later joined CBS Records to oversee the development of the company’s compact disc and distribution operations.  He went on to earn leadership roles in the music distribution industry, which included serving as senior vice president of operations for SONY Music with P&L responsibility in excess of $400M, and then as president, WEA Manufacturing-Warner Music Group, with P&L responsibility of over $3B, and a staff of over 4,000. 

He has provided leadership on several not-for-profit boards, including chair of the Montgomery Academy; board member emeriti of both the University of Oregon Foundation and the Oregon Children’s Foundation; and board chair of the High Tech Broadcasting Network.  

Thomas Costabile earned his MBA with honors in Finance from Long Island University and a BSME with honors from Manhattan College.   

Adrian Stanley, is an independent consultant, prior to this he was General Manager for JMIR Publications, an innovative open-access publisher since 1999, with over 30 digital health and OA medical journals. Adrian also spent 7 years as Managing Director, Publishers, at Digital Science, and 10 years as Charlesworth Group (USA) CEO.

Additionally, Adrian is the Chair of the Fully OA Publishers Group (an OASPA sub-group), a Board member for STEM Fellowship, a DOAJ Ambassador, member of the OA Switchboard, and DataSeer Client Advisory Boards. He has held numerous volunteer committee/Chair roles including a Past President for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Chair SSP Funder Taskforce, an Associate Editor for Learned Publishing, he lived and worked in China for 4 years and has over 25+ years experience working in scholarly communications and academic publishing.

Dr. Catherine A. Roberts is the Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

This professional society of about 30,000 members advances research and creates connections through
publishing (journals, books, and the database of the mathematics literature MathSciNet), conferences, professional programs, and advocacy.

She earned her doctorate in applied mathematics from Northwestern University and has several research publications analyzing nonlinear Volterra integral equations. She spent a decade as the Editor-in-Chief of the multidisciplinary journal Natural Resource Modeling and has a deep interest in the power of mathematical modeling to help us understand environmental challenges.

After over two decades as a college professor, Dr. Roberts now brings her problem-solving acumen to bear on larger issues facing the larger mathematics community

Jeff Saffer, CEO of Quertle, has a passion for efficient and effective information discovery and use. As a biomedical researcher, he has unique perspectives and more than two decades of experience with artificial intelligence for understanding big data including text information.

Jeff received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and worked many years in basic biomedical research. His informatics effort led to the creation of his first start-up, a biomedical information visualization company. His current company, co-founded with Dr. Vicki Burnett, focuses on making literature and other text content more discoverable, using a unique combination of AI methods coupled with predictive visual analytics.

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 publishers, education providers and enterprises. Impelsys’ platforms, iPublishCentral Suite of solutions, are being used by hundreds of companies to provide content and learning to thousands of libraries and millions of learners around the world.

Sameer is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his BS degree in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business. Prior to the Impelsys chapter, Sameer co-founded Medsite Inc. As Chief Strategic Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales, he helped Medsite become one of the largest Internet pharmaceutical marketing companies in the United States which was eventually acquired by WebMD for 40 million USD.

Known for driving Impelsys to become one of the most applauded content and learning delivery companies in the industry, Sameer is often invited to speak at various events and tradeshows. He has also been featured in Forbes, India Today, CMS Wire, Professional Publishing Report, Gilbane, Seybold Report and Silicon India among other publications.

Sameer is also a mentor as well as investor to many entrepreneurs, helping them turn their ideas into real businesses. He is also a founding board member of The Heart Stroke Foundation of India, the Indian subsidiary of The American Heart Association. An avid sports enthusiast, Sameer has successfully completed the New York and Paris Marathons.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameershariff

Since 2015, Emma has been the managing editor at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, where she is responsible for three peer-reviewed medical journals: Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, and Clinical and Translational Science.

Previously, she worked in the journal’s editorial office at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Emma received her Masters of Professional Studies, Publishing from George Washington University in 2014 and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jan Reichelt is an entrepreneur as well as a business angel and board member in various start-up companies in the fields of digital education, digital publishing, and professional information services. He was awarded the title “European Founder of the Year 2013” by TechCrunch The Europas, and was ranked as one of the “top 100 most influential British entrepreneurs” in 2015.

Jan is the former co-founder of Mendeley, which was acquired by Elsevier in 2013, and where he was Managing Director until 2016, helping with Elsevier’s digital transformation. He then started Kopernio to help researchers access high quality academic journal articles with one click. Kopernio was acquired by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, where he is now also responsible for the Web of Science, the world’s trusted publisher-independent research database. 

Since 2013, Jan has been serving as non-executive director of Emerge Education, “the most influential and active investor in UK edtech” (Outsell 2016), where he has helped mentoring and leading investments in 40 edtech start-up companies.

A charismatic and inspirational leader and trainer, Femi Otitoju is a diversity and inclusion specialist with a career spanning over 30 years in the field of organisational development.

Femi founded Challenge Consultancy in 1985 to provide high quality, effective training and consulting services. Since then the company has grown into an association of trainers and consultants designing and delivering solutions for organisations throughout the private, public and voluntary sectors.

With a strong reputation for getting results in the media, publishing and higher education sectors, Femi is much sought after as a speaker for conferences and events as well as for her training and consultancy work.  Femi combines a scientific background with persuasive and engaging training skills.  Clients for whom she has delivered training and consultancy services include Bloomsbury Publishing, BBC, Hachette Publishing, University of Cambridge, ITN, PACT, The Guardian and Express Newspapers. 

Femi has addressed numerous conferences and events as a key-note speaker on a wide variety of equality and diversity issues.  She has also been fundamental in reviewing, revising and helping implement equality strategies in many large organisations.

 

Helen is the journals and books publisher for Gender and Diversity at Emerald publishing, and is proud to be one of the very few full-time publishers commissioning in this area.

She completed her PhD in Earth Geosciences in 2016 at Utrecht University, before making the switch to academic publishing. 

Having come from the least diverse field in STEM, Helen has first-hand experience of the long-standing issues around gender and diversity in academia and understands that publishers have a vital role to play in supporting the research industry to make changes. 

Helen is actively involved in STRIDE, Emeralds in-house inclusion group, and will take over as co-chair in 2019.