HighWire signals a new era of product leadership through recent announcements regarding the organization’s mission, leadership, and branding. Tangible examples of these commitments include new appointments made to the team by its leader Tony Alves, SVP of Product Management.
Oliver “Olly” Rickard is now the Director of Product Management for hosting platforms Scolaris and JCore. Olly has been with the organization since 2016, when he joined as a Business Analyst. He has been active in the research technology space as a product manager and software developer for over 20 years.
Dmitri Khodjakov joins HighWire as Product Manager for the THINK order management and customer service platform. Previously, Dmitri worked at Aries Systems where he was a Business Systems Analyst for Editorial Manager. Prior to Aries, Dmitri worked for Taylor & Francis as Editorial Systems Supervisor.
Eric Hall joins HighWire as Product Director for BenchPress and Ampere workflow solutions. Eric was previously Senior Product Manager for Vizor and BenchPress, and has deep experience in Scholarly Communications with a focus on Peer Review via past roles at Wiley, American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).
Along with Rickard, Khodjakov and Hall, there are two more product leads, Christopher Priest, who manages Sigma, HighWire’s identity management product, and Satam Choudhury, who manages Vizor, Insight and ScholarlyStats, HighWire’s analytics products. In addition to these five product leads, three junior product managers will be joining the team in the next quarter.
These changes strengthen the Product Management capability and reflect a commitment from HighWire and parent organization MPS to roadmap leadership within the market.
Click here to read the original press release.
