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Howard Ratner is Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice-President, for Nature Publishing Group. Based in New York, Howard is in charge of US administration and has global responsibilities for web and mobile development and operations, content management, production and manufacturing, and information technology across all NPG products. Howard's prior positions include Director, Electronic Publishing & Production for Springer and a member of the production staff at John Wiley & Sons. He co-founded ORCID and was the chairman for three years. Howard was active in the establishment of the DOI and the founding of CLOCKSS and CrossRef. He currently serves as an active member of the CrossRef and ORCID executive committees and boards, STM Future Labs, and SSP. Howard received the NFAIS Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture Award in 2012. He is a frequent spokesperson for NPG on a variety of production and new technology themes.
