Frankfurt Book Fair appoints Amy Webster as new Associate Partner Rights and Licences - August 19, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced the appointment of Amy Webster as the new Associate Partner Rights and Licences. Amy joins from the Edinburgh TV Festival, where she was Head of New Business. She was previously at the London Book Fair, where she co-ordinated the Market… Read More
Publishers Communication Group hires Sarah Zhao as new China sales representative - August 14, 2015
Sales and marketing consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG) has hired Sarah Zhao as its new sales representative based in China, effective July 1. Working from Beijing, Zhao will promote and sell content to institutions and consortia in the China market on behalf of PCG's client… Read More
HighWire appoints Amy Mosher as VP Human Resources - August 14, 2015
HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the appointment of Amy Mosher as Vice President of Human Resources. As a member of the executive team, Amy will work closely with Dan Filby, HighWire’s CEO and… Read More
Kudos appoints Rebecca Shumbata as Sales Manager in North America - August 14, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximise the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Shumbata as the company's Sales Manager in North America. Rebecca was most recently at Publishing Technology, prior to which she held roles at the New England Journal of Medicine… Read More
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group reorganises management structure, appoints John Sargent as EVP - August 13, 2015
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company, has reorganised its management structure following the formation of Springer Nature earlier this year, with Macmillan's John Sargent assuming the role of HPG's executive vice president, reporting to group CEO Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Springer Nature chief scientific… Read More
Maryellen Giger, A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, University of Chicago, elected to SPIE presidential chain - August 13, 2015
SPIE Fellow Maryellen Giger, A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, and the College Vice-Chair of Radiology at the University of Chicago, has been elected to serve as the 2016 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With her election,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer appoints Dr. Denise Basow as President & CEO of Clinical Effectiveness and David Del Toro as President & CEO of Clinical Software Solutions - August 11, 2015
Wolters Kluwer has announced the appointment of Dr. Denise Basow as President & CEO of its Clinical Effectiveness Business Unit and David Del Toro as President & CEO of its Clinical Software Solutions Business Unit, effective August 1, 2015. Formed from the Clinical Solutions unit, part… Read More
Digital Science appoints Simon Porter as VP Academic Relationships and Knowledge Architecture - August 6, 2015
Digital Science, a technology company that invests in and incubates technology companies serving the needs of scientific and research communities, has announced the appointment of Simon Porter to the role of VP Academic Relationships and Knowledge Architecture. Porter joins Digital Science's Research Metrics team from the… Read More
Dr. Joseph Hill named editor-in-chief of Circulation - August 4, 2015
Dr. Joseph Hill, Chief of UT Southwestern Medical Center's Division of Cardiology and Director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center, has been selected as the forthcoming editor-in-chief for the American Heart Association's principal scientific journal, Circulation. Circulation, published weekly, is the American Heart Association's… Read More
Lynn Silipigni Connaway elected President-elect of ASIS&T - August 3, 2015
OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway has been elected President-elect of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the 2016 administrative year, and President for 2017. Connaway has been a member of ASIS&T for 25 years. She has served in a variety… Read More
