Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP Publishing), US, has announced the appointment of Steven Hall as the company’s new Managing Director. He replaces Jerry Cowhig, who is retiring.
Having started out at Macmillan Press, Hall went on to Chadwyck-Healey as Sales and Marketing Director and then Managing Director. Following ProQuest’s acquisition of Chadwyck-Healey, he was appointed Senior Vice-President, Publishing and Publisher Relations of ProQuest. He moved on in 2004 to become Journal Sales and Marketing Director for Blackwell Publishing and later Commercial Director for Wiley-Blackwell.
Hall founded and ran his own scholarly publishing consultancy from 2008 onwards.
The Institute of Physics has a worldwide membership of more than 36,000. It aims to act as a communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is claimed to be a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics.
