Chuck Hemenway is Director, Rightsholder Sales at Copyright Clearance Center.
Chuck’s expertise lies in the automation of author payments and institution approval workflows. He has been a key contributor to the RightsLink for Scientific Communications platform from inception, and has guided many publishers in their transition to scalable payment and approval processes.
Cathy Holland joined Digital Science’s Publishing Business Development Team in 2016.
She has previously worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in a variety of roles involving the licensing of journal content. Her most recent title was sales manager which involved expanding the reach of the AAAS family of e-resources to organizations around the world.
She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Marymount University.
Daniel Ebneter is the CEO and a member of the Management Board at Karger Publishers, a worldwide publisher of scientific and medical content based in Basel, Switzerland. He reports to Gabriella Karger who is the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and the 4th generation publisher.
Prior to joining Karger in July 2017, Daniel Ebneter was a member of the executive board of the Hogrefe publishing group. Earlier positions include senior roles in business consultancy and industrial trading as well as teaching at universities. He has extensive professional experience in publishing and digital business.
Daniel Ebneter holds a master’s degree in applied physics, mathematics and computer science from the University of Bern, Switzerland, as well as an Executive MBA in integrated management from the Universities of Applied Sciences Bern and Fribourg, Switzerland. He was born in 1970 and is a Swiss citizen
Brian Napack is president and CEO of John Wiley & Sons, a global leader in education and scholarly research. He joined the Company in December of 2017 as the 14th CEO in Wiley’s 210-year history.
Brian has devoted his career to the education, information, publishing, and media industries. From 2012 until he joined Wiley, Brian was a senior advisor with Providence Equity, one of the world’s leading private equity investors. During this period, he was focused on making and managing investments in the media, education, and information sectors, and was an active director on the boards of numerous companies including Ascend Learning, Blackboard, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ingram Industries, EDMC, Burning Glass, myON, Recorded Books, HotChalk, and Synergis.
From 2006 to 2012, Brian was president of Macmillan, the global publisher, overseeing publishing businesses in education, consumer books, digital media and magazines. Macmillan’s imprints include St. Martin’s Press; Farrar Strauss & Giroux; Henry Holt; Bedford, Freeman, & Worth; and Scientific American where he was chairman. Before that, he was a partner at L.E.K. Consulting, a global management consulting firm, where he served corporate and private equity clients in media, publishing, entertainment, and education.
Brian founded and was CEO of ThinkBox, a digital media company focused on pre K-12 education. At The Walt Disney Company, Brian founded and ran Disney Educational Publishing and was a co-founder of Disney Interactive. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Simon & Schuster, the large diversified publishing company, and at A.T. Kearney, a leading management consulting company.
Outside of Wiley, Brian serves on the boards of Burning Glass, a leading data and analytics software company focused on the labor markets, and Zero To Three, a science-based early childhood advocacy group dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life.
Brian received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College.
Annie Callanan joined the Academic Publishing Division of Informa, Taylor & Francis, as Chief Executive at the end of June 2017.
She has significant leadership experience in business-to-business information services and technology companies, and expertise in delivering digital innovation and operational improvement.
Annie previously served as Chief Executive of Quantros, provider of digital solutions to the healthcare industry. In prior roles she was Chief Operating Officer at technology services firm Systech International, Chief Executive at the global information and electronic services organisation Bowker and Chief Operating Officer at ProQuest, a specialist in delivering knowledge, content and data for academic and corporate researchers and librarians.
Prior to this, as Executive Vice President for the Life Sciences portfolio at Advanstar Communications, Annie oversaw its clinical and industry journals, educational services and conferences. She started her career managing leading brands in print, online publishing and trade shows at Miller Freedman/CMP Media, now part of UBM.
Annie holds an MBA in Finance from New York University. She has completed leadership programmes at Columbia Business School and the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, and has served on the boards of directors of the American Publishers Association and the International ISBN Agency.
Herman P. Spruijt A long and distinguished career since 1974 has seen him hold key positions at market leaders and associations in both national and international publishing.
He started as an editor with one of the Kluwer-titles, worked in their printing industries and finally became a science publisher with Martinus Nijhoff (later Kluwer Academic). In 1981 he was asked by the newspaper group Perscombinatie to run one of the national Dutch daily newspapers (Trouw) as a director and publisher. He joined Elsevier Science Publishers in 1987 where in 1995 he was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of Elsevier Science and in the board of ReedElsevier.
He served, amongst other positions in the Industry, as a member and Treasurer of the executive board of STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical publishers, 1993-1999), in the board of ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) and in the Industry Advisory Committee of WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization, 1998-2003).
As a vice-president and the President of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in Geneva (2004-2010) he has represented national, regional and specialized publishers’ associations from around the world.
Since the last 20 years Herman Spruijt holds a portfolio of non-executive directorships such as with Brill (Leiden, 2000-2014) and still chairs several boards of companies in the information and printing industries. He holds degrees from agricultural college, Nijenrode Business school and Leiden University.
Daniel Ropers joined Springer Nature in October 2017, following 17 years as CEO at online retailer bol.com. Under his leadership bol.com grew from a start-up to one of Europe’s leading online retailers.
Prior to joining bol.com, Daniel had an early career in management consulting, at McKinsey & Co, working for international clients and developing expertise in e-commerce. Daniel holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, having studied Global Economics and Business Studies at Erasmus University (Rotterdam, NL) and ESSEC (Cergy-Pontoise, France).
Dan Filby is the CEO of HighWire Press, Inc. a leading ePublishing platform, that partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of more than 3000 journals, books,
reference works, and proceedings.
Dan has more than 20 years of experience leading global organizations from Fortune 500 brands to start-up companies that provide software and technology enabled services. In these roles, he has transformed businesses to achieve healthy growth
by increasing innovation, achieving operational excellence and fostering a culture where customer experience is the number one priority.
Jess is an excitable scientist with an enthusiasm for equality. She has been involved in several projects to improve gender inclusion in science, as well as encouraging more young people to study science and engineering. Jess won the Institute of Physics (IOP) Early Career Communicator Prize (2015), “I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!” (2015), the IOP Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award (2016), the Institution of Materials, Mineral and Mining’s ‘Robert Perrin Award’ (2017), the Imperial College Dame Julia Higgins Certificate (2017) and the IOP Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize (2018).
Jess sits on the committees of the IOP’s Women in Physics Group, Physics Communicators Group and London & South East Branch. She is on the Council of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Young Women’s Board. In 2017 Jess was the UK representative on a US State Department International Visitor Leadership Program, travelling across America for a month looking at initiatives to recruit and retain women in ‘STEM’. Jess co-led the UK Team at the 2017 International Conference for Women in Physics. She is a keen Wikipedian, and is helping to upload the biographies of women, LGBTQ+ and POC scientists – creating one every day in 2018.
Jess works on organic light emitting diodes that emit circularly polarised light. To achieve this, she creates chiral nanostructures out of carbon-based materials. Jess believes that when it comes to nanoscale molecular engineering; nature is the expert and we humans are only just catching up. Our world and our bodies are full of “chiral” systems – non-superimposable mirror images, like your left and right hand, DNA, or the stacks of fibrous chitin in the shell of a beetle. Understanding how to create and control left and right-handed systems will transform drug discovery, cryptography, the diagnosis of diseases and even our televisions.
After developing a digital tracking system for a journal when he was a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, he has been in Scholarly publishing and communication since 1995, in a wide variety of roles. At Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), he worked successively as an Editor, a Production Manager, an E-journal Manager, and a Promotion Manager. Covering a broad range of roles in publishing, he is focused on scholarly communication through E-journals, and he improved the way publishing is managed, including Open Access, through his skills involving information technology.
With long experience and insights with birds’-eye-view in scholarly publishing, he has been involved in advocacy activities with various stakeholders such as Publishers (STM, ALPSP, Libraries (SPARC Japan), Administrators (MEXT), and Research Communities (Science Council of Japan, IUPAC) for better scholarly communication.
He moved from CSJ to NISTEP in 2012 and his current focus is on policy implication of open science and open access, while developing a new way to foresight science and technology trends. He is an expert member of the working party on Open Science for G7 Science and Technology Ministry meeting, and the OECD/GSF project of Open Science as well as the Cabinet Office in Japan.
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