HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers, has announced the appointment of Abhinav Mittal as Vice President of Engineering. Abhinav is an energetic, hands-on technical leader with a passion for encouraging collaboration and building teams that deliver outstanding products and services to customers.
Mittal comes to HighWire from startup inPowered, as Head of Engineering focused on building big data platforms and products in content discovery and the ad tech space. Prior to that, Abhinav was a Leader at Intuit, launching a series of successful products for Intuit's Small Business Group.
Through its innovative open platform, HighWire Press provides technology solutions to influential societies, university presses, and independent publishing organisations which produce high-impact journals, books, and other scholarly materials. Long affiliated with Stanford University, the newly independent HighWire Press, Inc. offers publishers: digital content development and hosting services; a customizable peer-review manuscript submission system; strategic consultation services; and unique community networking opportunities.
