Robert J Massie

Robert J Massie has been President of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, since 1992.   CAS is the global leader in chemical information, offering indispensable research tools to pharmaceutical, chemical and life science companies as well as universities and patent offices around the world.  CAS provides the world's most comprehensive and highest quality databases of chemical substances and their properties, reactions, and literature references.  CAS has been called the 'gold standard' for molecular substance and related intellectual property research.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Massie was President and CEO of Gale Research, Inc., the leading U.S.  general reference publisher serving libraries, schools and businesses. In the early and mid-1980's, he held senior executive positions with the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper and book publishing company in Canada.  Prior to that, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York, where his clients included G.E. and the New York Times Company.   Mr. Massie began his career as an attorney with the firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., specializing in international transactions and food and drug law.

Mr. Massie holds a joint J.D./MBA degree from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar; he is an honors graduate (B.A.) of Yale College.

Mr. Massie has been a member of numerous civic organizations, including serving on the boards of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, COSI (Columbus' award winning science center) and the Columbus Symphony.  He chaired the board of the Columbus Technology Leadership Council and was one of the founding chairs of TechColumbus.   He is currently a member of the Columbus Partnership, a board member of TechColumbus, and Chairman of the Board of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. He also serves on the board of Simbionix, the leader in medical simulation technology.

Mr. Massie has authored a number of papers, and speaks frequently to industry and community groups on the subject of scientific research in the digital age.

Among his awards and recognitions are the Miles Conrad Award, presented in 2008 by The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the Patterson-Crane Award for Outstanding Contribution to Providing Chemical Information Services, 2003, and the Executive of the Year award from the Industry & Technology Council of Central Ohio in 1998.