Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi - Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee and Head of Global Academic & Customer Relations
Youngsuk “YS” Chi is an international businessman and a leader in the media and technology industry, and currently serves in several different capacities. As Chairman of the Elsevier Management Committee, he leads the development of information solutions that are transforming the STM industry. He also oversees Global Government Affairs and Global Corporate Responsibility efforts as well as Asia Strategy for Elsevier’s parent company, Reed Elsevier. Lastly, Mr. Chi was recently elected to serve at the President of the International Publishers Association, a global organization that represents the interests of more than 50 publishing industry association members from countries around the world.
Early in his career, as Chief Operating Officer of Ingram Book Group, he founded Lightning Source, the first ever print-on-demand distributor and e-book services provider. After holding several senior executive positions at Ingram Book Group’s parent company, he became President and Chief Operating Officer of Random House. He has also earned widespread respect for his ability to work across cultures. As founding Chairman of Random House Asia, he led efforts to make Random House the first foreign trade book publisher with local language publishing in Japan and Korea.
Mr. Chi has served on numerous charitable, educational and industry boards, including Princeton University, Korean American Community Foundation and McCarter Theatre. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the boards of Association of American Publishers and International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers.
Bill Godfrey – Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Electronic Product Development
Bill Godfrey is Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Electronic Product Development at Elsevier. In this role, Bill’s focus is to increase speed-to-market for new products and solutions, accelerating efforts to leverage more agile customer-focused development practices and to move large-scale development efforts to the next level of performance.
Before joining Elsevier, Bill was Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dow Jones & Company, the global publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires, several award winning consumer on-line sites and the owner of Factiva. Here, he aligned the company's technology organization with product strategies across both print and on-line media, developing innovative new products for enterprises and consumers. Prior to Dow Jones & Company, Bill was Senior Vice President, Information Technology Services at Hartford Life, Inc.
Michael Hansen - Chief Executive Officer, Health Sciences
Michael Hansen was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier Health Sciences in June 2008. In this position, he leads this division in their mission to advance medicine through delivering superior education, reference information and decision support tools to doctors, nurses, health care practitioners and students.
From 2006 to 2008, Michael served as the CEO of Harcourt Assessment, formerly owned by Reed Elsevier. He was previously with Bertelsmann, as EVP of Operational Excellence. Michael started his career at The Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he became a Partner and Chairman of the global Media Convergence practice and was a senior member of the firm’s health care practice. Michael holds a law degree from the University of Bonn, in Germany and an MBA from Columbia University, in New York.
Gavin Howe - Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Gavin Howe is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Elsevier. He led the successful integration of the Harcourt businesses into Reed Elsevier and led the sale of and transfer of the Harcourt college business to Thomson Reuters. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer at Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in Boston.
Having joined Elsevier in 1998, Gavin's responsibilities have included central marketing, social sciences and economics publishing, IT, production and customer services. For the 15 years prior to joining Elsevier, he worked for another Reed Elsevier company, Reed Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing. Gavin rose to be a divisional MD at Reed Business Information and joined the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
Eser Keskiner- Director of Strategy
Eser Keskiner is Director of Strategy at Elsevier. He joined Elsevier’s Strategy team in 2009 and became Director of Strategy in 2012, responsible for Elsevier’s overall global strategy.
Prior to joining Elsevier in 2009, Eser was a consultant at McKinsey & Company based in London, where he provided advice to leading companies in the Private Equity and Pharmaceutical industries. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David Lomas - Vice Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee and Chief Financial Officer
David Lomas was appointed Vice Chairman of Elsevier's Management Committee in April 2011 after playing a key role in financial oversight and execution in Elsevier’s business. David is also Chief Financial Officer of Elsevier. He joined Elsevier in 2005 from the global telecommunications and information giant BT, where he held a variety of key financial and operational roles, including CFO of the BT Enterprise division, Head of BT Mergers & Acquisitions, Chief Financial and Commercial Officer of BT Ireland and CEO of BT Multi-Media.
David holds an honors degree in Management Science from Warwick University in the UK, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and is a Member of the Institute of Treasurers.
Ron Mobed - Chief Executive Officer, Science & Technology
In April 2011 Ron Mobed was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Science & Technology, Elsevier’s division responsible for supplying scientific, technical and medical information to academic research institutions, government research establishments, corporate research labs and individual research scientists. Ron was previously President of learning solutions provider Cengage Learning's Academic & Professional Group. Prior to that Ron was at information services company IHS where he served as Vice Chairman, as Co-President & Chief Operating Officer and as President & Chief Operating Officer of the IHS Energy Segment. Whilst at IHS he led the transformation to insight-based solutions and helped with the Initial Public Offering in 2005. Earlier, Ron worked at Schlumberger, a leading oil-field services company. He advanced through a variety of operational and management positions in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa including Global Vice President of the Information Management business unit.
Ron is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and of the Energy Institute. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and a master's degree in petroleum engineering from Imperial College, University of London.
Adriaan Roosen was appointed Executive Vice President, Operations in May 2009 and is responsible for Elsevier's global production, customer service and the distribution of all print and online books and journals. He originally joined Elsevier in March 2008 to lead the global customer services and warehousing teams in St Louis, Oxford and Singapore. He brings to Elsevier years of senior management and operational experience in a variety of international businesses including Quark, Vertis, RR Donnelley and Modus Media, covering graphic arts, print, advertising, publishing and business process outsourcing.
Between 1983 and 1991, Adriaan served as the Industrial Commissioner to the Netherlands Investment Agency, charged with attracting high tech US businesses and investments to the Netherlands to improve the country’s industrial infrastructure and technology base. After graduating in International Law at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, Adriaan launched his career as an attorney in 1977 at DSM, a Dutch multinational chemical company, where he handled international technology licensing and supplier contracts and ran international product liability cases against suppliers in Europe and the US. As of September 2010, after being based in the US for many years, Adriaan is back in Amsterdam, where he also serves as Head of House.
Mark Seeley - Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Mark joined Elsevier in 1995 as General Counsel, after serving six years in Reed Elsevier USA's Legal Department. He currently heads up a legal department of fourteen lawyers, based throughout Europe and the United States, and he is responsible for the legal aspects of copyright and public policy issues, publishing ethics concerns, corporate organization and compliance, and acquisitions. Elsevier’s Global Rights team and the new Information Security & Data Protection Office also reports to Mark. For the publishing sector, Mark serves as the chair of the STM association’s (http://www.stm-assoc.org) Copyright & Legal Affairs Committee and is a member of the AAP’s Copyright Committee (http://www.publishers.org/).
Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Mark held several corporate and law firm positions in litigation support and paralegal management. Mark holds a B.Ph. degree (Literature) from Thomas Jefferson College of Grand Valley State University (Michigan) and received his JD (cum laude) from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars.
