Erik Engstrom - Chief Executive Officer

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 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 began his business career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Erik 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, an MS from the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, and he gained his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Fulbright Scholar.

Michael Hansen - Chief Executive Officer, Elsevier 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.

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, where he worked from 2001 until 2005. Prior to joining RBI, Herman spent 17 years with 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 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 might not have been as customer-focused as it should have been, but under Y.S.’s direction, the company is committed to turning this around. He is taking the vital steps for embedding customer focus at the heart of everything Elsevier does.

To this end, Y.S. is concerned with strengthening ties with external stakeholders, including editors, authors, academics, libraries, governments and funding bodies. His role is foundational to 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.

Adriaan Roosen - Executive Vice President, Operations

Appointed Executive Vice President, Operations in May 2009, Adriaan is responsible for Elsevier's global production, customer service and distribution for 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. Adriaan is a Dutch national and has been based in the US for many years. He has also lived and worked in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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 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.

Nick Fowler - Director of Strategy

Nick Fowler is responsible for strategic, market and competitor analyses. He assembles and leads teams that work 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.

Upon 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 spent 15 years working for 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.

David Lomas - Chief Financial Officer

David Lomas is the Chief Financial Officer of Elsevier. He joined Elsevier in Spring 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.

Mark Seeley - Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Boston, Massachusetts

Mark joined Elsevier in 1995 as General Counsel, after serving six years in Reed Elsevier's Legal Department. He currently heads up a legal department of ten lawyers,  based throughout Europe and the United States, and he is responsible for corporate organization and compliance, mergers, acquisitions, copyright policy and enforcement. Mark played a pivotal role in the acquisition of Harcourt in 2001, including UK and US competition clearance and integration, as well as the rollout of ScienceDirect licensing practices from 1996 to 1998.

Prior to joining Elsevier, Mark held positions in intellectual property management and litigation support for Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts as well as Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, California. Mark is a member of the Association of American Publishers’ Copyright Committee and serves as chair of the International Association of STM publishers’ (STM) Legal Affairs/Copyright Committee.