Tim Britton, formerly of PwC, r2i and YouGov, has joined Springer Nature as Managing Director of the Open Research Group.
Britton, who has decades of experience working in the marketing and research information industries, will be responsible for the open research portfolio across Springer Nature, including BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, the open access journals from Nature Research and open access monographs from Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. He will also join the Springer Nature Research Management Board.
Prior to joining Springer Nature, Britton was Head of Strategy & Transformation at r2i (PwC's global data research and insight centre of excellence). Before that, he spent eight years at international internet-based market research firm YouGov in a number of leadership roles, most recently as Chief Executive UK and Head of Global Reports.
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