Peter Ashman (Board Member to 2011)  joined the BMJ Group in 2007 after spending the previous six years at Nature Publishing Group, where he conceived and launched the medical journals division in addition to handling key society publications.  During his time at Nature Peter was Publisher then Publishing Director for the British Dental Association publications including the British Dental Journal. In this time he lead the BDJ publishing operation and managed all commercial aspects of the journal, overseeing significant growth in classified, display and subscription revenues. Prior to that Peter worked at the Lancet, initially in London then for five years as Vice President in New York. Peter is now Publishing Director for the BMJ and the BMJ Journals - a portfolio of around 30 specialist journals which are owned or co-owned by the BMJ Group or published under contract. 

E-mail: PAshman@bmjgroup.com

Ian Bannerman (Board Member to 2012) is currently Managing Director of Journals at Taylor & Francis, part of Informa. He joined Taylor & Francis in 2004 and led the expansion of their journal publishing to now include over 1500 titles. He began his career in academic publishing with Blackwell in 1988, and has held a variety of management roles in Production, Marketing, Sales and Online Product Development. He was one of the pioneers in developing online sales models and platforms for the academic library market. In addition to serving on the STM Board, Ian is an active member of the Copyright Committee, the Strategic and Public Affairs Committee and the organizing committee for the STM Masterclass. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the Board that governs Crossref. Ian is a regular speaker at international conferences and has written on a range of subjects, from pricing models to plagiarism.

Ian Borthwick (Board Member to 2011)  is currently Commissioning Editor for Energy and Environmental Technology at Woodhead Publishing Limited, UK, a leading independent, international, reference book publishing company, where he is responsible for a books programme targeted at industry, research and development organisations and higher-level academia.  Ian previously worked for IWA Publishing Limited, UK, the publishing arm of the International Water Association, where he worked across the company's diverse programme of environmental books, journals, reports, manuals and online services.  Ian has worked in STM publishing - his chosen career path - for over five years, and is highly interested in the future development of the industry. 

E-mail: ian.borthwick@woodheadpublishing.com

Jerry Cowhig (Board Member to 2010) is Managing Director of IOP Publishing based in Bristol, England, and Philadelphia, USA, the publishing arm of the non-profit Institute of Physics. Jerry was elected to the Executive Board of STM in 2004 and was Chairman from 2005 to 2008. Earlier for STM Jerry was a member of the Library Relations Committee (1999 - 2003), Chair of the Governance Working Party (2002), and a member of the Working Party on STM Strategy and Mission Statement (2003).  Jerry was previously a university lecturer, a medical journalist and publisher, and moved to IOP in 1995. 

Fred Dylla (Board Member to 2011) is the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics, an umbrella organization of 10 scientific societies, publisher of scientific journals, and provider of physics resources.  Prior to this, Dylla served as Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for the Free-Electron Laser program at DOE's Jefferson Lab. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT, is a Past President and Fellow and of the AVS and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The author of over 190 publications, Dylla is a strong advocate of scientific journals and for improved access to scientific information through various business models. Dylla currently serves on the STM Board of Directors and on the Executive Committee of the Professional and Scholarly Publication of the American Association of Publishers. 

E-mail: dylla@aip.org

Barbara Lange (Board Member to 2012) started her publishing career with Springer-Verlag, working on electronic products in chemistry, medicine and other disciplines.  Joining IEEE in 1996, Barbara was integral in the development of IEEE's online delivery platform, IEEE Xplore, as well as managing its most significant online products.  She is currently responsible for product and platform business management and strategic product R&D efforts.  One of those projects is the federated search tool, scitopia.org.  Barbara is active in the STM community, including seats on AAP/PSP Electronic Information Committee and CCC Publisher Advisory Group.  She often speaks on forward-looking product ideas and developments at various industry events.

Jayne Marks (Board Chair to 2010) has worked in almost all aspects of academic publishing.  She was the chemical engineering publisher at Butterworth Heinemann before moving to Macmillan Press where she published medical journals for societies.  In 1999, Jayne became Publishing Director of the newly formed Nature Publishing Group where she was responsible for a wide range of Nature-branded and society titles in biomedicine both in the UK and New York  On leaving Nature, she set up and ran a publishing technology company out of India. She is now back in publishing and is responsible for SAGE journals in California.

Cliff Morgan (Board Member to 2011) has worked in publishing for 35 years, mostly in Production and Publishing Technology. He began in Journals Production at Pergamon Press, and has worked in the Netherlands (Martinus Nijhoff), and for Holt-Saunders in Eastbourne. He has been with Wiley for over 20 years, currently as Vice President, Planning & Development Director covering mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, competitive intelligence, industry developments, government affairs, standards and special projects. He chairs the Serial Publishers Executive of the Publishers Association and is also a member of the STM  Board, ALPSP Council, the COUNTER Board of Directors, JISC's Publishers Action Group, the LIBF Advisory Board and the NISO Architecture Committee. He also represents Wiley-Blackwell, STM or the PA on a number of special projects in the fields of digital preservation, funder mandates, article metrics, legal deposit, and article versions. He has often presented at STM, ALPSP and other meetings, and has written articles and book reviews for Learned Publishing.

Jack Ochs (Board Member to 2010)

Rhonda Oliver (Treasurer to 2012) originally trained as a microbiologist and worked in medical research for many years at the Strangeways Research Laboratories, Cambridge.  She has over 25 years publishing experience in both the commercial and the not-for-profit sectors. She is a past Chair of the Copyright Committee of ALPSP. In 2008 she was appointed as Treasurer of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). In 2009, she joined the Publications Committee of the London Mathematical Society.

Max Phua (Board Member to 2011) is the executive director of World Scientific, the largest privately-owned publisher in Singapore and one of the leading professional and academic publishers.

He manages the global business operations and strategies of the company together with the company's departmental directors and regional managers in the company's headquarters in Singapore and offices in New Jersey, San Francisco, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Sydney, Chennai, New Delhi and Hong Kong.

He has a master's degree from the London School of Economics and was an honors undergraduate student in economics and political science from the University of Rochester. 

E-mail: max@wspc.com.sg

Gary R. VandenBos, PhD (Board Member to 2010) , is the Publisher of the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, USA.  He has his doctoral in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit, and also has a graduate degree from Michigan State University.  He is currently the Managing Editor of the American Psychologist as well as Psychological Services.  He is the Editor of the International Journal of Stress Management.  

Paul Weislogel (Board Member 2012) was the Executive Vice President of Journals Publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins from 2004 through 2006, overseeing its program of over 200 medical journals.

Prior to joining WKHealth Paul was at Elsevier in New York for nearly 25 years, most recently serving as Vice President of Global Society Relations in its clinical journal program.

Paul entered publishing in 1978 after receiving advanced degrees in molecular biology from Princeton University; an active duty stint teaching at the U.S. Naval Academy; a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Amsterdam Medical School; and serving as a Principal Investigator of a National Cancer Institute grant in Bethesda.