Ed Pentz

Ed Pentz is the Executive Director of CrossRef, a not-for-profit membership association of publishers set up to provide a cross-publisher reference linking service. Ed was appointed as CrossRef’s first Executive Director when the organization was created in 2000. Prior to joining CrossRef Ed held electronic publishing, editorial and sales positions at Harcourt Brace in the US and UK and managed the launch of Academic Press’ first online journal, the Journal of Molecular Biology, in 1995. Ed is on the board of directors of ORCID, Inc, the International DOI Foundation and UKSG. Ed has a degree in English Literature from Princeton University and current lives in Oxford, England.