Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable the research ecosystem to accelerate discovery, announced that Samantha Burridge has joined the company in a newly-created role - Director of Strategy & Transformation of its Scientific & Academic Research group. Burridge will report directly to the new division CEO, Annette Thomas, in London.
With more than 20 years' experience across broad publishing businesses and more recently, open research, Burridge will support Thomas in expanding the company's leadership position in the scientific and academic research market. She is responsible for developing the strategy for the division, for supporting innovation in data and analytics, establishing best practice for the incubation of new businesses and for ensuring the company both attracts and retains talented professionals.
Burridge established Nature's Open Research Group in 2013 as Managing Director; by 2016 it had become the fastest growing open access (OA) business in the world. Prior to her time at Springer Nature, Burridge was a member of the Macmillan Science & Education board and a key player in the transformation of the business. She was Managing Director of the humanities and social sciences publisher, Palgrave Macmillan and held several leadership roles across the group, steering many global functions through significant change. More recently, she has worked as a consultant across publishing and education, working with boards of both established brands and start-ups, to develop their strategies.
Burridge has served as a member of the Publishers Association academic board and remains a member of the board of the Copyright Clearance Centre - a global leader in technology solutions that fuel research, power publishing and respect copyright.
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