Archives: People

Ammy Vogtlander is an independent consultant and lecturer on Complexity and Organizational Dynamics. 

Previously, Ammy worked at Elsevier for 12 years where she fulfilled various senior roles. She headed the strategy & analytics group of the Global STM journals division; led the ScienceDirect product team; and held various other positions in strategy and product.  Her focus areas included strategic analytics, performance management, organizational design practices, business and product development.

In between roles, Ammy left Elsevier in the summer of 2007 to start up a social platform in the healthcare space leveraging advanced peer-based relevance ranking technology. Before joining Elsevier, Ammy worked as a senior strategy consultant at a Dutch consulting firm, Boer & Croon. Ammy started her career at AMS, an American IT consultancy, where she served as a project manager and senior architect working on large-scale billing and customer care projects for telecom companies across the US, Europe and the Middle East.

Ammy holds a MSc in Physics and did her final research on chaos in neural networks at the Technical University Delft.  

Jennifer Schivas is Head of Strategy and Industry Engagement at 67 Bricks, a technology company who are helping publishers evolve their content capabilities and become more data-driven.

At 67 Bricks she has taken a lead in exploring how AI, machine learning and natural language processing can deliver value in the scholarly ecosystem.

Jennifer joined 67 Bricks from the partnerships and innovation team at Oxford University Press and has previously held roles at Taylor & Francis and Intellect Books. She brings practical experience of using new technologies on real projects and a vision for how they will impact the scholarly ecosystem of the future.

In my role as a User experience designer for OpenAthens I design experiences for librarians and library patrons. As part of my work, I visit libraries and talk to librarians all around the world, collecting and analysing insight to help the team come up with unique and creative solutions to scholarly content access management problems.

Before joining OpenAthens, I have worked with Samaritans, Drinkaware, the British Red Cross and public and third sector organisations to help them aline their business goals to the user needs.

Jon is VP Global Sales & Marketing at PageMajik, a solution which embeds machine learning in the editorial workflow creating greater efficiency and cost saving for publishing companies.  

At PageMajik he leads strategy formulation, sales & marketing.  He has over 20 years’ digital experience in music, publishing and with technology providers.  He is fascinated by the constantly changing current environment, how this affects all aspects of content consumption and whether or not parallels can be drawn across media sectors.   He believes AI will radically alter the way that publishing companies operate. 

Prior to his current role, Jon was on the senior management team at Semantico and has also held pioneering digital roles at Macmillan Education and Penguin.  

I am an EMBO long-term fellow researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London in James Briscoe’s lab. My research focuses on stem cells and embryonic mammalian development. I support open access, and I joined PreLights (https://prelights.biologists.com/profiles/teresa-rayon/ ) to highlight preprints that show quantitative approaches to developmental questions, and increase the feedback on preprints.

Outside the lab, I am passionate about radio broadcasting. I am editor and presenter of the podcast “En Fase Experimental” (https://sruk.org.uk/es/iniciativas/comunicacion-y-divulgacion-cientifica/en-fase-experimental/ ). Our fortnightly radio program includes a discussion on scientific topics and interviews with scientists, trying to reach and inspire.

Haralambos “Babis” Marmanis is Copyright Clearance Center’s Executive Vice President & CTO. Babis is responsible for driving the technology vision and the implementation of all software systems at CCC.

He has over 20 years of experience in computing, with proven success in leading software development teams.

Prior to CCC, Babis was the CTO at Emptoris, a leader of supply and contract management software solutions. He also worked at Zeborg, a provider of analytic software for expenses, and Truexchange, a real-time trading and risk management software system. He is a published book author in business and technology, and he also published numerous papers in academic journals and technical periodicals.

Babis holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, and an MSc from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the recipient of the Sigma-Xi innovation award and an NSF graduate fellow at Brown.

Josh Willacy is a trainer, writer and consultant and has provided equality, diversity and inclusion advice and training to organisations across the private, public and third sector for a number of years.

Whilst at Challenge Consultancy, Josh has developed and delivered training courses to staff at all levels in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Unconscious Bias and Leadership.

Josh’s career to date has included organising and chairing equality and diversity conferences, reviewing organisations’ equality and diversity strategies, giving guidance on inclusive communications, producing equality monitoring reports and designing and delivering diversity events and seminars.   

As a mixed race gay man of Caribbean heritage, Josh believes in celebrating multiple identities. He fed into Stonewall’s strategy on engaging Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic LGBT communities. Josh also designed and delivered Stonewall’s flagship Role Model empowerment programmes for BAME LGBT people.

Andrew Pitts is the CEO of PSI Ltd.

Andrew has worked in the field of STM publishing for over 25 years and has worked closely with most of the major STM publishers during that time.

PSI is the developer of theIPregistry.org and PSI Metrics and also the STM endorsed Due Diligence Bureau.

With theIPregistry.org publishers and libraries can save time and streamline processes, eliminate errors, improve the reliability of usage metrics and ensure the right content is accessible to the right users.

PSI Metrics can provide accurate, fully audited, and actionable data about who is reading both OA and paywalled content without exchanging any personal data. With the Due Diligence Bureau publishers can demonstrate compliance and protect their reputation.

Jay Ven Eman, CEO, has been with Access Innovations since 1978.  He has been active in all aspects of its business including strategy, production, and business development.  He has presented papers on STM related topics at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, Internet World, ICKM, NKOS, Online – London, AGSI – Netherlands, and many others.  

Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at NASA’s Technology Applications Center.  He specialized in measuring the impact of technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena.  

He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Bridget Moynihan is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh studying the scrapbooks of Scottish Poet Makar Edwin Morgan (1920-2010).

Her dissertation research integrates archival, material, and digital humanities approaches to the scrapbooks.

Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Digital Humanities Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization), Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH), and Digital Studies / Le champ numérique.