Suzie Allard

Suzie Allard, Ph.D., is an associate professor and assistant director in the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences. Suzie's interests and teaching include: science information, information retrieval, how scientists use and communicate information, and how these communication processes influence the data preservation process at the point of data creation. She is on the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library for Theses and Dissertations, and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a member of the Leadership Team for DataONE, an NSF funded datanet project building infrastructure for environmental science data and is the PI for the IMLS funded project, ScienceLinks2, which supports doctoral education in science data and information.

Ramy Arnaout

Before Pubget, Ramy spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to not spend a lot of time searching science. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, where he was a Soros Fellow, a DPhil (PhD) in mathematical biology from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and an SB in biology from MIT, where he still plays pickup basketball. Since residency, he has been a clinical pathologist and systems biologist, all in and around Boston, MA.

Gretchen M. Bataille

Gretchen M. Bataille served as president of the University of North Texas from 2006 to 2010. Prior to her presidency at UNT, she served for six years as senior vice president for the University of North Carolina system.  Bataille is a noted scholar in the field of American Indian literature and is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, the most recent focusing on the changing academic environment.  She has served as a trustee of The College Board and the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education and currently serves on the Board for SAGE Publications.

Philip E. Bourne

Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego,  Associate Director of the Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology. He is an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology and a long standing member of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Genome Canada panels responsible for reviewing proposals relating to computational biology. He is a past member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, past chairman of the International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission IUCrCC and past chairman of the American Crystallography Association (ACA) Computing Committee.

Recent awards include the Benjamin Franklin Award (2009), the Flinders University Convocation Medal for Outstanding Achievement (2004) and the Sun Microsystems Convergence Award (2002).

Bourne's professional interests focus on relevant biological and educational outcomes derived from computation and scholarly communication. This implies algorithms, text mining, machine learning, metalanguages, biological databases, and visualization applied to problems in drug discovery, evolution, cell signaling, apoptosis, systems biology and scientific dissemination. He has published over 200 papers and 4 books, one of which sold over 150,000 copies. He has co-founded 4 companies: ViSoft Inc., Protein Vision Inc., a company distributing independent films for free and most recently SciVee.

Bourne is committed to furthering the free dissemination of science through new models of publishing and better integration and subsequent dissemination of data and results which as far as possible should be freely available to all.

Personal interests are squash, hiking, skiing, flying and motor bikes.

Website:  http://www.sdsc.edu/~bourne/

Tim Collins

Tim joined EBSCO in 1987 when the company he co-founded with his stepfather was purchased.   Under the leadership of Tim and his management team, EBSCO Publishing has grown into a key player in the information industry, with it's EBSCOhost online research service offering over 300 databases to institutions worldwide.  EBSCO Publishing has made nearly 50 acquisitions including products as diverse as CINAHL, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts, Dynamed, Health Library, Novelist, and Business Book Summaries.  EBSCO Publishing's Academic Search, Business Source, and MASTERFILE products have become standard resources in libraries worldwide.

Website: www.ebscohost.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. 

Lou Ann Di Nallo is Director of Content Integration & Analysis, part of R&D Informatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) where her group is responsible for external content provision and literature analytics.  She has been involved with electronic information over her entire career in a variety of roles in both for-profit and nonprofit settings. Prior to joining BMS, she was electronic resources manager at the Hagerty Library, Drexel University, where she also taught undergraduate and graduate information courses as an adjunct faculty member.  Since 2008 she has been Secretary of the Pharma Documentation Ring (P-D-R).

Bradley E. Gernand

Bradley E. Gernand manages library and information services for two U.S. Government think tanks:  the Institute for Defense Analyses, serving the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the Science & Technology Policy Institute, serving the President's science advisor and White House in general.  Gernand has served the institutes since 2001; prior to that he was senior archivist in the Library of Congress.  He planned the conversion of the institutes' longtime print library to digital format-a successful gambit on which the library continues to build.

Website:  www.ida.org

Andrea Kravetz

Andrea Kravetz joined Elsevier in May 2001 as the Vice President for the User Centered Design Department (UCD). The UCD department is an international department responsible for creating the user interface for most of Elsevier's electronic products.  Under Andrea's leadership, the department ensures that Elsevier's electronic products are customer focused and provide ease of use.  The UCD team has been involved in all major electronic product releases for Elsevier products in both the Science & Technology and Health Sciences areas. 

Prior to joining Elsevier, Andrea  held a variety of positions at LexisNexis including; Manager Data Development, Sr. Director Large Law Firm Marketing and Product Manager for Lexcite and Freestyle Natural Language Search.  She was responsible for leading the effort to create data enhancements resulting in the creation of  Company Dossier and  Nexis News Indexing Taxonomy.

Andrea is a licensed lawyer and practiced law in Ohio for several years before joining Reed Elsevier.

She is a frequent lecturer on the user centered design process and the value of incorporating the user into the development process.

Website:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrea-kravetz/0/685/b5

Jason Hoyt

Jason Hoyt, PhD is the Research Director at Mendeley.com where he oversees R&D grants, the recommendation engine, literature search, data mining, and the API platform. He holds a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University.

Deborah Lenares is currently Manager of Acquisitions, Serials and Interlibrary Loan for the libraries at Wellesley College.  She also serves as the Collection Manager for the Sciences at Wellesley.  She previously worked in a corporate library where she migrated the collections and services from print to web based.  Deborah has a B.S. in Chemistry and a Masters in Library and Information Science.  Her interests as a librarian are ebooks, handheld reading devices and evidence based management of library collections.

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.

Audrey Melkin

Audrey spent 20 years in sales and marketing positions focused on libraries and scholarly content at Oxford University Press, John Wiley, and Henry Holt.  She entered the electronic publishing world as VP, Sales/ North America for CatchWord in 1999.   She continued at Ingenta as VP/Publisher Relations and then in May 2003 she joined Atypon as Director of Business Development where she is responsible for growing Atypon's client base in the Americas.

She is a member of the PSP Journals Committee, co-chair of the SSP Development Committee, and served on the STM Spring Program Planning Committee.  In her spare time she loves to study piano, attend concerts, and go to museums.

William Park

William 'Bill' Park joined DeepDyve as chief executive officer in 2008. Prior to DeepDyve, Mr. Park served at Acxiom Corporation, a global leader in customer information management, where he led the company's 3D organization, a $225 million business providing data, digital and direct marketing solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-tier companies. In this position, he oversaw all aspects of sales, services, development, and operations domestically and internationally, generating record revenues and profits. Prior to Acxiom, Mr. Park founded and served as chairman and CEO of Digital Impact, a leader in online direct marketing solutions for the Fortune 1000. Acxiom acquired Digital Impact in 2005. Prior to founding Digital Impact in 1997, Mr. Park held numerous management positions at technology and enterprise software companies. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Daniel Pollock

Daniel Pollock has worked in STM publishing for 19 years. Having studied Manufacturing Engineering at Cambridge University, UK, he began his career as a software developer, on projects including editorial workflow tools and sales management systems for a variety of medical publishers. He was invited to become technical director of a dot-com, which was acquired by Elsevier in 2001 and led to his move to publishing roles focusing on digital products and online strategy. After a period at leading market intelligence company Outsell Inc., as executive advisor specialising in the STM industry, he joined Nature Publishing Group and leads its online publishing activities via Nature.com.

Andrea Powell

Andrea has been with CABI since 1991, initially in a marketing role, then as Product Development Director and latterly (since 2005) as Executive Director, Publishing.  She is responsible for CABI's database, book and multimedia publishing business, which covers agriculture and related applied life sciences.  Andrea has served as Chair and Past Chair of ALPSP and is a regular speaker at STM and other industry meetings.  She is a member of the CCC's Publisher Advisory Group and has also served as a Director of the Publishers Licensing Society.

Carol Tenopir is a Chancellor's Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information, and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. She is the author of five books, including Communication Patterns of Engineers and Towards Electronic Journals, both with Donald W. King. Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. She is the recipient of the 2009 Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.

Christopher Winship

Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, and member of the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and mathematics at Dartmouth College and his graduate work at the Harvard Department of Scociology, receiving his degree in 1977. After leaving Harvard, he did a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and a two-year fellowship at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In 1980 Winship joined the Sociology Depeartment at Northwestern University. During his twelve years at Northwestern he was Director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and for four years chair of the Department of Sociology.  Since 1995 he has been the editor of 'Sociological Methods + Rsearch.' He is a faculty associate of the Harvared Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard Science, Technology + Society program and Harvard Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

Website: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/winship/

Hazel Woodward

Hazel has been University Librarian and Director of the University Press at Cranfield University for over 10 years. Prior to that she was at Loughborough University as Head of Electronic Information Services. Hazel's research interests include electronic publishing and scholarly communication (the subject of her PhD thesis) and she has published many papers in the professional literature on digital library issues. She is very active professionally being currently the Chair of the JISC Journals Working Group (which oversees NESLi2) and a member of the JISC E-Books Working Group as well as contributing to various SCONUL, UKSG and ICOLC committees.