Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have selected their board's leadership for the 2016-2017 term, which will begin on July 1, 2016. B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., becomes Chair; and Chris Shillum, Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data Integration at Reed Elsevier, has been voted Vice Chair. Three other board members have also been confirmed: Gerry Grenier (IEEE); Marian Hollingsworth (Thomson Reuters); and Evan Owens (Cenveo Publisher Services).
Usdin, Shillum, Grenier, Hollingsworth, and Owens are all continuing another year of service to NISO's board, continuity that helps the organisation smoothly advance its ongoing projects and goals.
B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specialising in XML systems for textual documents, has long been a leader in the technology around content markup and the publishing production process. She has organised a number of community efforts and conferences on the subject, such as the Markup Technologies and Extreme Markup Languages events, and is involved in a new conference series, Balisage: The Markup Conference. She has served as an active member of NISO's Board of Directors since 2013 and has been a member of the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) working group.
Chris Shillum, Vice President Product Management, Platform and Data Integration at Reed Elsevier, a position he has held since 2014, the same year that he joined NISO's board. He has worked for Elsevier since 1996, starting as Product Manager, Content, and then held positions as Director, Product Development (1999-2001); Publishing Technology Director (2001-2004); and Vice President Product Management, Platform and Content (2004-2014).
Additional Board Members include, Gerry Grenier, Senior Director, Publishing Technology at IEEE; Marian Hollingsworth, Director of Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters; and Evan Owens, Vice President, Publishing Technologies at Cenveo Publisher Services.
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