Erik Engstrom is the Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier, Reed Elsevier’s
Science and Medical Division. He is a Director of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed
Elsevier Group PLC and a member of the Executive Board of Reed Elsevier NV.
Prior to joining Elsevier in 2004, he was a partner with a private equity firm
focused on information technology, where he led the media and consumer
investment sector. Prior to that, Erik Engstrom had extensive experience in
the publishing industry, most recently as president and chief operating
officer of Random House Inc., the leading global consumer books publishing
business of Bertelsmann. He was also president and chief executive officer of
Bantam Doubleday Dell North America before its merger with Random House. Erik
Engstrom began his business career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.
Erik Engstrom is a member of the Council of the Publishers Association in the
UK and a member of the Executive Board of STM (The International Association
of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers). He has a BS degree from
Stockholm School of Economics, a MS from the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, and gained his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Fulbright
Scholar.
Brian Nairn - Chief Executive Officer, Elsevier Health Sciences
Since 2001, Brian has been the Chief Executive Officer of Health Sciences at
Elsevier. The division’s mission is to advance medicine by delivering superior
education, reference information and decision support tools to doctors,
nurses, health care practitioners and students.
In his role as CEO of Health Sciences, Brian oversees the annual publication
of more than 8,000 textbooks and reference works, as well as more than 500
journals for doctors, nurses, clinicians, students and other medical
practitioners. Health Sciences’ print products are complemented by a range of
online services, including the Consult series. The division generates annual
revenues of $1.4 billion.
Brian Nairn has worked in business publishing for more than 20 years, half of
which has been with Reed Elsevier companies.
Herman van Campenhout - Chief Executive Officer, Elsevier Science &
Technology
Herman van Campenhout is Chief Executive Officer of Science & Technology at
Elsevier which supplies scientific, technical and medical information to
academic research institutions, government research establishments, corporate
research labs, and individual research scientists. Herman has led the
continued innovation of Elsevier’s flagship products including ScienceDirect,
Scopus, Scirus, Embase, Engineering Village, and Cell Press.
Before taking up his present role in January 2005, Herman served as CEO of
Reed Business Information (RBI) in the Netherlands from 2001. Prior to joining
RBI, Mr. van Campenhout spent 17 years in the Royal Dutch Shell Group, where
he held several management positions around the globe, serving in Central and
South America and Europe. His last position at Shell was Board Director of
Shell Netherlands. He is a graduate in law and attended a business school.
Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi - Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Global
Academic & Customer Relations
Youngsuk (Y.S.) Chi is Vice Chairman of Elsevier. He also serves as Managing
Director of Global Academic and Customer Relations. Y.S.’s central role is to
guide the company’s relationship-building efforts within the scientific and
health communities. Elsevier recognizes that, in the past, it may not have
been as customer-focused as it should have been, but under Y.S.’s direction,
the company is committed to turning this round. He is taking the vital steps
necessary to embed customer focus at the heart of everything Elsevier does.
To this end, Y.S. is charged with strengthening ties with external
stakeholders including editors, authors, academics, libraries, governments and
funding bodies. His role underscores Elsevier’s recognition of the importance
of understanding its customer base and aligning its business to best meet its
customers’ needs. Y.S. has an abiding involvement with university and academic
endeavors and has held senior positions in the book trade for the last decade,
most recently serving as Chairman of Random House. He not only serves as a
Princeton University Trustee, but also as a Board member of Princeton
University Press, Korean American Community Foundation and the Montgomery Bell
Academy.
Gerrit Bos - Executive Vice President, Operations
Gerrit Bos has been Executive Vice President of Operations at Elsevier since
2005. He is in charge of global production, customer service and distribution
for books and journals and their electronic equivalents. He is also
responsible for the company's global procurement department.
Gerrit has 22-year association with Elsevier and its parent company Reed
Elsevier. He started his career in 1984 at Reed Business in the Netherlands,
holding a variety of commercial roles in sales and publishing. From 1999-2005,
he was Elsevier’s Director of Global Production. A graduate of the Zwolle
Institute for Economics and Management Studies in the Netherlands, Gerrit hold
the NIMA-C degree in Advanced Marketing.
Bill Godfrey – Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Head
of Global Electronic Product Development
Bill Godfrey is Executive Vice President, 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 moving 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 companies’ 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.
Nick Fowler - Director of Strategy
Nick Fowler is responsible for strategic, market and competitor analyses. He
assembles and leads teams working on key issues facing both the company and
the industry as a whole. These include corporate policies on e-pricing, ‘open
access’ and alternative scientific publishing models, e-Health information
delivery, search, and the development of internet-based business. He has acted
as a spokesperson for Elsevier on these issues.
On joining Elsevier in 2003, Nick held the role of Vice President of Strategic
Marketing, based in New York. In 2005 he was promoted to Director of Strategy
and relocated to Elsevier’s Amsterdam head office. Before joining Elsevier, he
worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey for five years
Gavin Howe - Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate
Services
Gavin Howe is currently Executive Vice President of Human Resources and
Corporate Services at Elsevier. He recently 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. Previously, he was Chief Operations
Officer in Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in
Boston. Prior to his move to the US, Gavin worked for 15 years in Reed
Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing.
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, where he rose to be
a divisional MD and to join the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing
career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
