Speaker Bios
Peter Balis, Director of Digital Content Sales, John Wiley and Sons
As Director of Digital Content Sales, Peter Balis is responsible for e-book and digital business development for John Wiley and Sons Professional and Trade division. In addition to his work for Wiley, he co-chairs the AAP's Digital Issues Working Group. This Fall he taught his first advanced seminar for the Master of Science in Publishing program at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies entitled "New Media Technology: From Mobile to E-Books."
Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR
Mark Bide is the Executive Director of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organisation for the book and journal supply chains which also provides a management service to the International ISBN Agency. He is also the Project Director for the ACAP Project, and a Director of Rightscom, the specialist media consultancy. He has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London.
Kurt Biedler, Senior Manager of Business Development, Amazon.com
Kurt Biedler is Senior Manager of Business Development at Amazon.com. He has several years of experience in the books industry, including working with the industry leaders in printing, publishing and book retailing. Kurt also holds advanced degrees from Princeton University, Lehigh University and University of Washington.
Angela Bole, Deputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical products.
Johan Bollen, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Johan Bollen is an Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He was a Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, complex networks, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the MESUR project.
Jane Burke, Senior Vice President, ProQuest and Serials Solutions
Jane Burke is Senior Vice President of Serials Solutions, a Seattle-based business unit of ProQuest. Jane was appointed to this position in June, 2005. Prior to joining ProQuest, Jane co-founded and served as President/CEO of Endeavor Information Systems. In addition to working as a librarian at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Illinois early in her career, Jane served as President of NOTIS Systems.
Jane earned masters degrees in Library Science from Dominican University (formerly Rosary College) and in Management from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Always an involved member of the library community, she now serves on the Board of Governors for the Northwestern University Library and on the Board of Directors for the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Among her many awards, Jane was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Sara Davis Anderson, Operations Manager, Harvard University Press
Sara Davis Anderson has been at Harvard University Press since 1999 and has worked in the acquisitions department, the distributed books program, the warehouse and the business office. Sara has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and will receive an MBA from Northeastern University in August 2010.
Peter Brantley, Director, the BookServer Project, Internet Archive
Peter Brantley is the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco based not-for-profit digital library. At the Archive, Peter has fostered the development and adoption of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS). With Gary Reback, he is co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, seeking an open and competitive market for digital books. Prior to working at the Internet Archive, he was Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation. He has been a member of the IDPF Board since 2007.
Keith Fahlgren, Publishing Technology Consultant, Threepress Consulting, Inc.
Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant at Threepress Consulting, Inc. Keith was formerly a Publishing Technology Engineer at O'Reilly Media, where he developed systems that helped create, maintain, enhance and reuse content. He's been involved in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook and the DocBook-XSL stylesheets and building an Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure. Recently, Keith's been heavily involved with encouraging the adoption of the IDPF EPUB standard, reinvigorating O'Reilly Labs, launching a system for developing manuscripts collaboratively and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process. Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.
Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Publishing Services, RR Bowker
Kelly Gallagher is the Vice President of Publishing Services at RR Bowker. In this role he manages the implementation of a host of Bowker business intelligence and supply chain products including exclusive sales data reporting tools and EDI ordering for the Canadian, Higher Education, and US Christian markets. This business unit also manages a consumer research panel surveying over 36,000 consumers on media behaviors and purchase trends. Prior to joining Bowker, Kelly served as the Vice President of Business Development at the Christian Publishers Association for six years. In this role he managed the development and implementation of industry initiatives including research, technology and supply chain management. Kelly also serves the book publishing industry as the Research Chair for the Book Industry Study Group.
Brian Green, Executive Director, International ISBN Agency
Currently Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, until the beginning of this year Brian Green was also Executive Director of EDItEUR. From 2003-2008, Brian was Chair of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO Committee responsible for identifiers in the information community.
Brian managed BIC, the UK book trade standards body, from 1991 until 2006 and, prior to that, was Director of Technology and Publishing Management at the UK Publishers Association after working in the publishing industry for many years.
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management, Baker & Taylor
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management at Baker & Taylor, has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Connie has been involved in BISAC Executive Committee since 2004, when she took on the role of BISAC Subject Codes Committee Chair. She also serves as BISAC Secretary and is a member of the BISAC Metadata Committee. Connie lives in New Jersey with her husband, three children and two dogs.
Michael Healy, Former Executive Director, BISG
Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. from 2006-2009, recently took on the position of Executive Director Designate of the Book Rights Registry.
Michael has been involved extensively in the development and management of standards for the book industry and has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.
He has chaired the international committee that revised the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) standard and is a member of the ONIX International Steering Committee and the ISO committee developing the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Brad Inman, CEO, Vook
Brad Inman is the founder of several successful online companies including HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005; the thriving online video company TurnHere; and Inman News, the online real estate publishing company.
Patrick Javick, Director of Industry Development, GS1 US / EPCglobal US
Patrick Javick is responsible for industry strategy, marketing, and business development in the Retail Sector. In his position he is tied to the on-going RFID pilots and implementations within the Apparel, Fashion and Footwear, Media & Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics Industries. Patrick is also a co-facilitator for the RFID based Electronic Article Surveillance, Tag Alteration and Apparel, Fashion and Footwear EPCglobal Standards subgroups within GS1 Standards Development.
David Jolliffe, Vice President, Cross Media Publishing Services, Pearson Canada
David Jolliffe is Vice President, Cross Media Publishing Services, at Pearson Canada, driving media, production, manufacturing, permissions and websites/ecommerce for the School (K12) and Higher Education divisions. He has also been in charge of production, manufacturing and media for the Penguin Group in Canada and oversees media for the French-language publisher ERPI. David has had a senior role in the content management initiative for Pearson Education North America. He is on the Advisory Board for the publishing program at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he also teaches both online and in the classroom. He has spoken at a number of events for the book publishing industry.
John Konczal, Global Industry Executive, Sterling Commerce
John Konczal, Global Industry Executive at Sterling Commerce, sets the Sterling Commerce market and product strategy for positioning the Sterling Commerce selling, fulfillment and business-to-business integration solutions in the communications, media and entertainment industry. His specialty is the design and deployment of e-commerce, channel integration and order fulfillment solutions supporting customer-centric sales strategies in global communications and media environments.
Jim Lichtenberg, President, Lightspeed, LLC
Starting in the early 1990s, as vice president at the Association of American Publishers, Jim Lichtenberg has been consulting and writing about the evolution of the Internet, information technology, and digital tools.
President of Lightspeed, LLC, a management consulting practice in New York City, Jim provides strategic counsel to clients in general business and book publishing including: The Conference Board, The Book Manufacturers Institute, Dell, Lightning Source, Houghton Mifflin, the American Library Association and the National Information Standards Organization. As board member of the Book Industry Study Group, he is leading an industry effort to assess the potential of RFID technology in the publishing value chain.
Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Scott Lubeck has more than thirty years of experience in publishing, entrepreneurship and innovative use of technology. He began his career in editorial at the University of Texas Press in 1977; he became president of Texas Monthly Press in 1983. He has been at the forefront of many transformation initiatives in the publishing industry. As director of the National Academy Press in Washington, D.C. in 1989, he led pioneering work in digital print and Web publishing. In 1999 he joined the Perseus Books Group as vice president and managing director where he led the development of Perseus Print on Demand. In 2001 he joined Harvard Business School Publishing in the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer to lead its strategic initiatives in digital publishing. In 2007 he joined NewsStand/LibreDigital as vice president and general manager and in 2008 joined Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education as vice president of technology to lead its single-source publishing strategy. He is currently executive director of the Book Industry Study Group.
David Martin, ONIX Support Team, EDItEUR
David Martin is an independent consultant on standards for business communication in the book trade, working principally for EDItEUR, where he leads the team responsible for ONIX for Books.
David has been involved with metadata standards for most of his career, at INSPEC, at the British Library, where he was Director of Automated Services for six years, and as a founder Director of Book Data Ltd (now part of Nielsen BookData).
Maureen McMahon, President & Publisher, Kaplan Publishing
Maureen McMahon is President and Publisher of Kaplan Publishing, one of the nation's leading publishers of academic and professional development resources. Prior to joining Kaplan in 2006, she was Vice President and Publisher of the Kaplan imprint at Simon & Schuster, and held several positions at Random House, including Publisher of The Princeton Review, Associate Publisher of Villard Books and Director of National Accounts.
Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations, HarperCollins
Carolyn Pittis is Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations for HarperCollins Publishers. In this role she is responsible for defining the high level strategic direction of the HarperCollins online direct to consumer marketing initiatives, including its overall Web site, email marketing, and third party marketing partner strategies. She supervises a team that has both local and global responsibility for building scalable marketing platforms to connect authors to consumers online. Her cross-functional team works closely with divisional publishers to identify and define digital business opportunities emerging in today's publishing marketplace.
Carolyn has worked in a variety of positions at HarperCollins in her 18-year career at the company, including senior responsibilities in the HarperCollins Publishing+ initiative, and in consumer sales forecasting, marketing technology, digital asset management, and business development. In these roles, she has specialized in using data and technology to drive publishing efficiency and effectiveness. She began her publishing career at Leisure Books in 1989.
She holds a bachelors and masters in history from Colgate University and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and is a 2004 graduate of the EITM program at Columbia University. In 2009, she was named as one of the top fifty women executives in book publishing.
David "Skip" Prichard, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ingram Content Group Inc.
Skip Prichard is President & Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group Inc. Mr. Prichard joined Ingram in 2007 as Chief Operating Officer. He was named President & CEO in January 2008. Prior to his appointment at Ingram Content Group, Mr. Prichard was President and Chief Executive Officer of ProQuest Information & Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving the education, government and corporate markets with offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He led ProQuest, a $300 million company with over 1,200 employees, through a successful turnaround -- achieving double-digit growth and returning the company to profitability.
Dominique Raccah, Co-Chair, BISG Board of Directors
Dominique Raccah founded Sourcebooks, one of the nation's leading independent book publishers, in the spare bedroom of her house in 1987. Born in Paris, France before moving to the U.S. when she was 9, she attended the University of Illinois where she acquired a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in quantitative psychology. Dominique was in the midst of a flourishing career in advertising with the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago when her lifetime love of books proved too strong a calling and she left to pursue publishing.
Dominique began Sourcebooks, then a specialty house serving the financial services industry, with money borrowed against her own retirement fund (all of $17,000 to be precise). Her vision for the company changed over the years as she began to see what innovative and provocative publishing could accomplish, as well as what advantages an independent, entrepreneurial vision could bestow in the rapidly consolidating industry. Her endless drive and unique vision helped to lead Sourcebooks to the New York Times bestseller list eight different times (so far), with spectacular successes across the non-fiction spectrum, as well as bestsellers in fiction and a line of groundbreaking multimedia titles (Sourcebooks MediaFusion). Dominique has never given up her desire to create, as she continues to act as the series editor for poetry projects (including Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children) and the Sourcebooks Shakespeare series.
Now, twenty years after its conception, Dominique and all of Sourcebooks celebrate their success with number one titles in parenting and college guides, a brand new children's imprint (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), and an ever-expanding roster of business relationships (including U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The History Channel and the recently announced agreement with Playskool). She is proud to not only be a leading publisher of poetry, a personal passion, but also the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the country. In the past few years, Dominique has received The Blue Chip Enterprise Award, was inducted into the University of Illinois Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Illinois and Northwest Indiana. She has served on the board of the Committee of 200 and now serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies.
Today, Sourcebooks has 70 employees, publishes over 200 new titles each year and is still based in Naperville, Illinois, where Dominique lives with her husband, Ray in the same house where Sourcebooks was born.
Michele Southall, Director of Community Development, GS1 US
As Director of Community Development, Michele Southall works with GS1 members to define best business practices for standards based solutions.
Michele has been on staff with EPCglobal US since late 2003, with prior participation as Global Standards Director for GS1 US, where she was responsible for the development of standards for the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).
She also previously held the position of Product Manager for EC Standards Compliance for 1SYNC, (then known as UCCnet), a not-for-profit subsidiary of GS1 US that provides product registry and data synchronization services.
Richard Stark, Director of Product Data, Barnes & Noble
Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, a position he has held for the past eleven years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999, Richard has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard and the ISO working group that developed the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Richard has been a bookseller for twenty years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. He was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator, John Wiley & Sons / Corporate
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator of John Wiley & Sons / Corporate, has over 20 years of production, manufacturing and estimating experience in the publishing industry. Over the past 12 years Lynn has led the Wiley charge to keep books in print through the use of digital printing.
In 1995 Lynn joined Wiley as an Estimating Manager for the Publishing Support Operations group in Corporate Finance. In 2003, with a whole team of IT, Operations, Inventory and Manufacturing folks behind her, she launched the Wiley US POD Program which now includes over 11,000 titles and has grown to become a multi-million dollar revenue opportunity for Wiley.
Lynn began her publishing career from a temporary position that turned permanent in the Production Department at Cliggott Publishing, a medical journal publisher. She learned book production at the American Bible Society and then took a Production Manager position at Longmeadow Press, Waldenbooks' proprietary publishing company.
Lynn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lynn has been quoted in several industry pieces regarding Wiley's Global Demand Print Program success and she is the co-author of Wiley's internal customer care resource guide, Print on Demand For DummiesŪ. She also helped edit and contribute to Digital Book Printing For DummiesŪ for the industry in partnership with BISG. In the May 2009 issue of Book Business magazine, Lynn was named to the prestigious list of "50 Top Women in Book Publishing." In October 2009, Lynn was the keynote speaker at an event in Brazil for Bandeirantes Graphica's launch of their Books on Demand Program.
Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google
Tom Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines and other print-based content-related products. Google Book Search, where Tom began his tenure at Google, launched in October 2004 and now contains the searchable full-texts of more than 1.5 million books from over 25,000 of the world's most important book publishers at: http://books.google.com
Tom and his team are responsible for signing the majority of the world's largest publishers for these products, now live in over 90 countries globally.
Tom came to Google having spent nearly 20 years in book publishing, book-based eCommerce, and institutional content licensing.
Previous to Google, Tom was Vice President, Content and Business Development for ebrary, a publisher-funded content aggregator. Prior to ebrary, Tom was the founding Director of the Publisher Relations and Merchandising Analysis group at Barnes and Noble.com. His team's responsibilities at bn.com included building the vendor relations and merchandising infrastructure, creating relationships and terms of business with all book publishers, and leading all vendor-based negotiations. Turvey also juggled launching the eBook business while at Barnes and Noble.com, having negotiated the deals and supervised the worldwide product launches of eBook platforms, Microsoft Reader and Adobe eBook Reader.
Tom has spent much of his career growing the book business in new channels. Before joining Barnes and Noble.com, he was Director, Online Sales and Marketing at HarperCollins Publishers (the first job of its kind in the book industry), where he pioneered the online bookselling channel as early as 1996. At HarperCollins, he established trading terms and relationships with Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Borders and many other online retailers. Tom was also general manager for several bookstores in Manhattan of different kinds and niches.
Tom has been a keynote speaker at major book publishing gatherings worldwide, including Book Expo America, Hong Kong Book Fair, Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting, Publishers' Association (UK) Annual General Meeting, Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting, Children's Book Council, London Book Fair, Book Expo Canada, the Charleston Conference, Cape Town Book Fair, Taipei International Book Fair, Bogota International Book Fair, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Professional Scholarly Publishers Association and many more.
Tom holds a B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University.
Jabin White, Director of Strategic Content, Wolters Kluwer Health -- Professional and Education
Jabin White is Director of Strategic Content for Wolters Kluwer Health's Professional and Education Division. In this role, Jabin is responsible for advising WK's publishing teams on relevant technologies, collaboratively helping to determine product opportunities, and spearheading P&E's digital content initiatives.
With a heavy background in XML theory and practice, Jabin has spent most of his career evangelizing the benefits of markup languages and related technologies, including content management, workflow enhancements and authoring tools.
Prior to joining WK, White served as Vice President, STM Sales for Scope eKnowledge Center, and VP of Product Development at Silverchair, Inc., a leading developer of information solutions for health care publishers.
Before Silverchair, Jabin spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division. His group performed the production work for such products as MD Consult, Mosby's Drug Consult, and The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.
Jabin started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine, and learned SGML at Mosby in the mid-90's, working on the drug reference Physicians GenRx. He has held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Unbound Medicine. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and has a Masters in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.
Kate Wilson, Founder, Nosy Crow
Kate Wilson started her publishing career in the UK after studying English at Oxford university selling rights for Faber and Faber. From there, she moved to a company that was subsequently reconfigured as Egmont where she was rights director. She was Publisher and Managing Director of Macmillan Children's Books from 1994 to 2004, and then she ran Scholastic in the UK between 2004 and 2009. After a (very!) brief period in adult publishing as CEO of Headline, part of the Hachette Group, she founded Nosy Crow, an independent publisher of children's books and children's apps, in February 2010. As a parent and a publisher, she is interested in literacy on the page and on screen and in how generations of digital natives may choose to consume text.
Jeremy York, Assistant Librarian, University of Michigan Library, & Project Librarian, HathiTrust
Jeremy York is a project librarian for HathiTrust Digital Library. He graduated from Emory University in 2001 with a B. A. in History and received a Master of Information Science from the University of Michigan in 2008. He has more than ten years experience in libraries, working in areas of course reserves, archives and special collections, and information technology.
As Director of Digital Content Sales, Peter Balis is responsible for e-book and digital business development for John Wiley and Sons Professional and Trade division. In addition to his work for Wiley, he co-chairs the AAP's Digital Issues Working Group. This Fall he taught his first advanced seminar for the Master of Science in Publishing program at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies entitled "New Media Technology: From Mobile to E-Books."Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR
Mark Bide is the Executive Director of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organisation for the book and journal supply chains which also provides a management service to the International ISBN Agency. He is also the Project Director for the ACAP Project, and a Director of Rightscom, the specialist media consultancy. He has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London.Kurt Biedler, Senior Manager of Business Development, Amazon.com
Kurt Biedler is Senior Manager of Business Development at Amazon.com. He has several years of experience in the books industry, including working with the industry leaders in printing, publishing and book retailing. Kurt also holds advanced degrees from Princeton University, Lehigh University and University of Washington.Angela Bole, Deputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical products.Johan Bollen, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Johan Bollen is an Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He was a Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, complex networks, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the MESUR project.Jane Burke, Senior Vice President, ProQuest and Serials Solutions
Jane Burke is Senior Vice President of Serials Solutions, a Seattle-based business unit of ProQuest. Jane was appointed to this position in June, 2005. Prior to joining ProQuest, Jane co-founded and served as President/CEO of Endeavor Information Systems. In addition to working as a librarian at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Illinois early in her career, Jane served as President of NOTIS Systems.Jane earned masters degrees in Library Science from Dominican University (formerly Rosary College) and in Management from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Always an involved member of the library community, she now serves on the Board of Governors for the Northwestern University Library and on the Board of Directors for the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Among her many awards, Jane was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Sara Davis Anderson, Operations Manager, Harvard University Press
Sara Davis Anderson has been at Harvard University Press since 1999 and has worked in the acquisitions department, the distributed books program, the warehouse and the business office. Sara has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and will receive an MBA from Northeastern University in August 2010.Peter Brantley, Director, the BookServer Project, Internet Archive
Peter Brantley is the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco based not-for-profit digital library. At the Archive, Peter has fostered the development and adoption of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS). With Gary Reback, he is co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, seeking an open and competitive market for digital books. Prior to working at the Internet Archive, he was Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation. He has been a member of the IDPF Board since 2007.Keith Fahlgren, Publishing Technology Consultant, Threepress Consulting, Inc.
Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant at Threepress Consulting, Inc. Keith was formerly a Publishing Technology Engineer at O'Reilly Media, where he developed systems that helped create, maintain, enhance and reuse content. He's been involved in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook and the DocBook-XSL stylesheets and building an Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure. Recently, Keith's been heavily involved with encouraging the adoption of the IDPF EPUB standard, reinvigorating O'Reilly Labs, launching a system for developing manuscripts collaboratively and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process. Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Publishing Services, RR Bowker
Kelly Gallagher is the Vice President of Publishing Services at RR Bowker. In this role he manages the implementation of a host of Bowker business intelligence and supply chain products including exclusive sales data reporting tools and EDI ordering for the Canadian, Higher Education, and US Christian markets. This business unit also manages a consumer research panel surveying over 36,000 consumers on media behaviors and purchase trends. Prior to joining Bowker, Kelly served as the Vice President of Business Development at the Christian Publishers Association for six years. In this role he managed the development and implementation of industry initiatives including research, technology and supply chain management. Kelly also serves the book publishing industry as the Research Chair for the Book Industry Study Group.Brian Green, Executive Director, International ISBN Agency
Currently Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, until the beginning of this year Brian Green was also Executive Director of EDItEUR. From 2003-2008, Brian was Chair of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO Committee responsible for identifiers in the information community.Brian managed BIC, the UK book trade standards body, from 1991 until 2006 and, prior to that, was Director of Technology and Publishing Management at the UK Publishers Association after working in the publishing industry for many years.
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management, Baker & Taylor
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management at Baker & Taylor, has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Connie has been involved in BISAC Executive Committee since 2004, when she took on the role of BISAC Subject Codes Committee Chair. She also serves as BISAC Secretary and is a member of the BISAC Metadata Committee. Connie lives in New Jersey with her husband, three children and two dogs.Michael Healy, Former Executive Director, BISG
Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. from 2006-2009, recently took on the position of Executive Director Designate of the Book Rights Registry.Michael has been involved extensively in the development and management of standards for the book industry and has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.
He has chaired the international committee that revised the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) standard and is a member of the ONIX International Steering Committee and the ISO committee developing the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Brad Inman, CEO, Vook
Brad Inman is the founder of several successful online companies including HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005; the thriving online video company TurnHere; and Inman News, the online real estate publishing company.Patrick Javick, Director of Industry Development, GS1 US / EPCglobal US
Patrick Javick is responsible for industry strategy, marketing, and business development in the Retail Sector. In his position he is tied to the on-going RFID pilots and implementations within the Apparel, Fashion and Footwear, Media & Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics Industries. Patrick is also a co-facilitator for the RFID based Electronic Article Surveillance, Tag Alteration and Apparel, Fashion and Footwear EPCglobal Standards subgroups within GS1 Standards Development. David Jolliffe, Vice President, Cross Media Publishing Services, Pearson Canada
David Jolliffe is Vice President, Cross Media Publishing Services, at Pearson Canada, driving media, production, manufacturing, permissions and websites/ecommerce for the School (K12) and Higher Education divisions. He has also been in charge of production, manufacturing and media for the Penguin Group in Canada and oversees media for the French-language publisher ERPI. David has had a senior role in the content management initiative for Pearson Education North America. He is on the Advisory Board for the publishing program at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he also teaches both online and in the classroom. He has spoken at a number of events for the book publishing industry.John Konczal, Global Industry Executive, Sterling Commerce
John Konczal, Global Industry Executive at Sterling Commerce, sets the Sterling Commerce market and product strategy for positioning the Sterling Commerce selling, fulfillment and business-to-business integration solutions in the communications, media and entertainment industry. His specialty is the design and deployment of e-commerce, channel integration and order fulfillment solutions supporting customer-centric sales strategies in global communications and media environments.Jim Lichtenberg, President, Lightspeed, LLC
Starting in the early 1990s, as vice president at the Association of American Publishers, Jim Lichtenberg has been consulting and writing about the evolution of the Internet, information technology, and digital tools.President of Lightspeed, LLC, a management consulting practice in New York City, Jim provides strategic counsel to clients in general business and book publishing including: The Conference Board, The Book Manufacturers Institute, Dell, Lightning Source, Houghton Mifflin, the American Library Association and the National Information Standards Organization. As board member of the Book Industry Study Group, he is leading an industry effort to assess the potential of RFID technology in the publishing value chain.
Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Scott Lubeck has more than thirty years of experience in publishing, entrepreneurship and innovative use of technology. He began his career in editorial at the University of Texas Press in 1977; he became president of Texas Monthly Press in 1983. He has been at the forefront of many transformation initiatives in the publishing industry. As director of the National Academy Press in Washington, D.C. in 1989, he led pioneering work in digital print and Web publishing. In 1999 he joined the Perseus Books Group as vice president and managing director where he led the development of Perseus Print on Demand. In 2001 he joined Harvard Business School Publishing in the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer to lead its strategic initiatives in digital publishing. In 2007 he joined NewsStand/LibreDigital as vice president and general manager and in 2008 joined Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education as vice president of technology to lead its single-source publishing strategy. He is currently executive director of the Book Industry Study Group.David Martin, ONIX Support Team, EDItEUR
David Martin is an independent consultant on standards for business communication in the book trade, working principally for EDItEUR, where he leads the team responsible for ONIX for Books.David has been involved with metadata standards for most of his career, at INSPEC, at the British Library, where he was Director of Automated Services for six years, and as a founder Director of Book Data Ltd (now part of Nielsen BookData).
Maureen McMahon, President & Publisher, Kaplan Publishing
Maureen McMahon is President and Publisher of Kaplan Publishing, one of the nation's leading publishers of academic and professional development resources. Prior to joining Kaplan in 2006, she was Vice President and Publisher of the Kaplan imprint at Simon & Schuster, and held several positions at Random House, including Publisher of The Princeton Review, Associate Publisher of Villard Books and Director of National Accounts.Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations, HarperCollins
Carolyn Pittis is Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations for HarperCollins Publishers. In this role she is responsible for defining the high level strategic direction of the HarperCollins online direct to consumer marketing initiatives, including its overall Web site, email marketing, and third party marketing partner strategies. She supervises a team that has both local and global responsibility for building scalable marketing platforms to connect authors to consumers online. Her cross-functional team works closely with divisional publishers to identify and define digital business opportunities emerging in today's publishing marketplace. Carolyn has worked in a variety of positions at HarperCollins in her 18-year career at the company, including senior responsibilities in the HarperCollins Publishing+ initiative, and in consumer sales forecasting, marketing technology, digital asset management, and business development. In these roles, she has specialized in using data and technology to drive publishing efficiency and effectiveness. She began her publishing career at Leisure Books in 1989.
She holds a bachelors and masters in history from Colgate University and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and is a 2004 graduate of the EITM program at Columbia University. In 2009, she was named as one of the top fifty women executives in book publishing.
David "Skip" Prichard, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ingram Content Group Inc.
Skip Prichard is President & Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group Inc. Mr. Prichard joined Ingram in 2007 as Chief Operating Officer. He was named President & CEO in January 2008. Prior to his appointment at Ingram Content Group, Mr. Prichard was President and Chief Executive Officer of ProQuest Information & Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving the education, government and corporate markets with offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He led ProQuest, a $300 million company with over 1,200 employees, through a successful turnaround -- achieving double-digit growth and returning the company to profitability.Dominique Raccah, Co-Chair, BISG Board of Directors
Dominique Raccah founded Sourcebooks, one of the nation's leading independent book publishers, in the spare bedroom of her house in 1987. Born in Paris, France before moving to the U.S. when she was 9, she attended the University of Illinois where she acquired a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in quantitative psychology. Dominique was in the midst of a flourishing career in advertising with the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago when her lifetime love of books proved too strong a calling and she left to pursue publishing. Dominique began Sourcebooks, then a specialty house serving the financial services industry, with money borrowed against her own retirement fund (all of $17,000 to be precise). Her vision for the company changed over the years as she began to see what innovative and provocative publishing could accomplish, as well as what advantages an independent, entrepreneurial vision could bestow in the rapidly consolidating industry. Her endless drive and unique vision helped to lead Sourcebooks to the New York Times bestseller list eight different times (so far), with spectacular successes across the non-fiction spectrum, as well as bestsellers in fiction and a line of groundbreaking multimedia titles (Sourcebooks MediaFusion). Dominique has never given up her desire to create, as she continues to act as the series editor for poetry projects (including Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children) and the Sourcebooks Shakespeare series.
Now, twenty years after its conception, Dominique and all of Sourcebooks celebrate their success with number one titles in parenting and college guides, a brand new children's imprint (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), and an ever-expanding roster of business relationships (including U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The History Channel and the recently announced agreement with Playskool). She is proud to not only be a leading publisher of poetry, a personal passion, but also the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the country. In the past few years, Dominique has received The Blue Chip Enterprise Award, was inducted into the University of Illinois Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Illinois and Northwest Indiana. She has served on the board of the Committee of 200 and now serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies.
Today, Sourcebooks has 70 employees, publishes over 200 new titles each year and is still based in Naperville, Illinois, where Dominique lives with her husband, Ray in the same house where Sourcebooks was born.
Michele Southall, Director of Community Development, GS1 US
As Director of Community Development, Michele Southall works with GS1 members to define best business practices for standards based solutions.Michele has been on staff with EPCglobal US since late 2003, with prior participation as Global Standards Director for GS1 US, where she was responsible for the development of standards for the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).
She also previously held the position of Product Manager for EC Standards Compliance for 1SYNC, (then known as UCCnet), a not-for-profit subsidiary of GS1 US that provides product registry and data synchronization services.
Richard Stark, Director of Product Data, Barnes & Noble
Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, a position he has held for the past eleven years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999, Richard has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard and the ISO working group that developed the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).Richard has been a bookseller for twenty years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. He was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator, John Wiley & Sons / Corporate
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator of John Wiley & Sons / Corporate, has over 20 years of production, manufacturing and estimating experience in the publishing industry. Over the past 12 years Lynn has led the Wiley charge to keep books in print through the use of digital printing.In 1995 Lynn joined Wiley as an Estimating Manager for the Publishing Support Operations group in Corporate Finance. In 2003, with a whole team of IT, Operations, Inventory and Manufacturing folks behind her, she launched the Wiley US POD Program which now includes over 11,000 titles and has grown to become a multi-million dollar revenue opportunity for Wiley.
Lynn began her publishing career from a temporary position that turned permanent in the Production Department at Cliggott Publishing, a medical journal publisher. She learned book production at the American Bible Society and then took a Production Manager position at Longmeadow Press, Waldenbooks' proprietary publishing company.
Lynn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lynn has been quoted in several industry pieces regarding Wiley's Global Demand Print Program success and she is the co-author of Wiley's internal customer care resource guide, Print on Demand For DummiesŪ. She also helped edit and contribute to Digital Book Printing For DummiesŪ for the industry in partnership with BISG. In the May 2009 issue of Book Business magazine, Lynn was named to the prestigious list of "50 Top Women in Book Publishing." In October 2009, Lynn was the keynote speaker at an event in Brazil for Bandeirantes Graphica's launch of their Books on Demand Program.
Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google
Tom Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines and other print-based content-related products. Google Book Search, where Tom began his tenure at Google, launched in October 2004 and now contains the searchable full-texts of more than 1.5 million books from over 25,000 of the world's most important book publishers at: http://books.google.comTom and his team are responsible for signing the majority of the world's largest publishers for these products, now live in over 90 countries globally.
Tom came to Google having spent nearly 20 years in book publishing, book-based eCommerce, and institutional content licensing.
Previous to Google, Tom was Vice President, Content and Business Development for ebrary, a publisher-funded content aggregator. Prior to ebrary, Tom was the founding Director of the Publisher Relations and Merchandising Analysis group at Barnes and Noble.com. His team's responsibilities at bn.com included building the vendor relations and merchandising infrastructure, creating relationships and terms of business with all book publishers, and leading all vendor-based negotiations. Turvey also juggled launching the eBook business while at Barnes and Noble.com, having negotiated the deals and supervised the worldwide product launches of eBook platforms, Microsoft Reader and Adobe eBook Reader.
Tom has spent much of his career growing the book business in new channels. Before joining Barnes and Noble.com, he was Director, Online Sales and Marketing at HarperCollins Publishers (the first job of its kind in the book industry), where he pioneered the online bookselling channel as early as 1996. At HarperCollins, he established trading terms and relationships with Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Borders and many other online retailers. Tom was also general manager for several bookstores in Manhattan of different kinds and niches.
Tom has been a keynote speaker at major book publishing gatherings worldwide, including Book Expo America, Hong Kong Book Fair, Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting, Publishers' Association (UK) Annual General Meeting, Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting, Children's Book Council, London Book Fair, Book Expo Canada, the Charleston Conference, Cape Town Book Fair, Taipei International Book Fair, Bogota International Book Fair, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Professional Scholarly Publishers Association and many more.
Tom holds a B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University.
Jabin White, Director of Strategic Content, Wolters Kluwer Health -- Professional and Education
Jabin White is Director of Strategic Content for Wolters Kluwer Health's Professional and Education Division. In this role, Jabin is responsible for advising WK's publishing teams on relevant technologies, collaboratively helping to determine product opportunities, and spearheading P&E's digital content initiatives.With a heavy background in XML theory and practice, Jabin has spent most of his career evangelizing the benefits of markup languages and related technologies, including content management, workflow enhancements and authoring tools.
Prior to joining WK, White served as Vice President, STM Sales for Scope eKnowledge Center, and VP of Product Development at Silverchair, Inc., a leading developer of information solutions for health care publishers.
Before Silverchair, Jabin spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division. His group performed the production work for such products as MD Consult, Mosby's Drug Consult, and The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.
Jabin started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine, and learned SGML at Mosby in the mid-90's, working on the drug reference Physicians GenRx. He has held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Unbound Medicine. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and has a Masters in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.
Kate Wilson, Founder, Nosy Crow
Kate Wilson started her publishing career in the UK after studying English at Oxford university selling rights for Faber and Faber. From there, she moved to a company that was subsequently reconfigured as Egmont where she was rights director. She was Publisher and Managing Director of Macmillan Children's Books from 1994 to 2004, and then she ran Scholastic in the UK between 2004 and 2009. After a (very!) brief period in adult publishing as CEO of Headline, part of the Hachette Group, she founded Nosy Crow, an independent publisher of children's books and children's apps, in February 2010. As a parent and a publisher, she is interested in literacy on the page and on screen and in how generations of digital natives may choose to consume text.Jeremy York, Assistant Librarian, University of Michigan Library, & Project Librarian, HathiTrust
Jeremy York is a project librarian for HathiTrust Digital Library. He graduated from Emory University in 2001 with a B. A. in History and received a Master of Information Science from the University of Michigan in 2008. He has more than ten years experience in libraries, working in areas of course reserves, archives and special collections, and information technology.