STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Olivier Dumon as the new Managing Director of its Academic and Government Research Markets group. Dumon replaces Jay Katzen, who will now manage the Clinical Decision Support department in Elsevier’s Health Sciences division.
Olivier Dumon brings more than 15 years of international experience to Elsevier, among which five years at eBay where he led the company’s product management, vertical strategy and the customer service organization, focusing strongly on improving the eBay search engine.
Elsevier’s A&G Research Markets group helps researchers within academic and government institutions to be more productive. Among other things, the group is responsible for the development and delivery of the SciVerse platform for scientific search and discovery, which includes SciVerse Hub and Application Marketplace and integrates ScienceDirect and Scopus. SciVerse facilitates collaboration, rewards innovation and generates higher content value. Combined with productivity-enhancing applications, this allows researchers to work more efficiently and enhance their research outcomes.
