F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has appointed Bev Acreman as Commercial Director.
Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature - a global research, educational and professional publisher.
At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included a focus on collaborating with Chinese funders and universities to build a solid infrastructure and understanding of Open Access in the hugely important scientific market.
She has spoken at Chinese conferences organised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST). She also set up and ran the inaugural Open Access Asia (OASPA) conference in Bangkok in 2014.
Prior to that, Bev headed up the commercial division at the first open access publisher, BioMed Central, where she built up its international sales, marketing and customer service teams.
Bev is currently on the board of UKSG. She has served as a committee chair for the STM Association and recently joined the Directory of Open Access Journals’ (DOAJ) advisory committee.
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