In a fast changing digital environment, we are developing new products and services with technology that enhances the productivity of the communities we serve.
Key topics: Electronic dissemination of STM information, Search and Navigation, Web-based Communities, Industry Initiatives.
Bernard Aleva, Senior Vice President Innovation & Product Development
Areas of expertise: STM journal and database publishing, new dimensions of content, customer workflows, new publishing concepts and business models, customer focused product development, innovation
Bernard’s core focus is on creating new and enhanced benefits for Elsevier’s customers: researchers in the author, reviewer, editor, and end user roles, as well as third parties. With his global Innovation & Product Development team, he applies innovative angles to accomplish this by developing new concepts, services and products. Full Profile.
IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Vice President Content Innovation, Elsevier Science & Technology
Area of Expertise: Bridging the gap between publishing and technology
As Elsevier’s VP Content Innovation since 2009, IJsbrand Jan strives to make the end user smile —helping scientists do something they weren’t able to do yesterday. Every product development process, he believes, should begin with getting close to users and learning their pain points. Only then is it possible to successfully apply evolving technologies into solutions that really work. Full Profile
Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs, Disruptive Technologies Director
Areas of Expertise: E-Publishing, semantic web technologies, open innovation
Anita is deeply engaged in semantic web technologies. Her current project focus is on investigating changing forms of the scientific research article. In 2005, she was awarded an NWO Casimir project grant by the Dutch government to undertake research two days a week at Utrecht University on the rhetorical structure of scientific articles. Anita is an organizer of the Elsevier Grand Challenge, an open innovation competition inviting researchers to prototype tools dealing with the ever-increasing amount of online life-sciences information. Full Profile
Jay Katzen, Managing Director, Academic & Government Products
Areas of Expertise: Scopus, ScienceDirect, Scirus and research workflow tools
Jay Katzen is the managing director of academic and government products for the science and technology division at Elsevier. In this role, Jay oversees the product management, product marketing and business development strategies for the core platforms that deliver Elsevier content: Scopus, ScienceDirect, Scirus and Research Workflow Tools. Jay brings to Elsevier more than 17 years of experience in marketing, product management, and software and business development for information publishers. Full Profile
Andrea Kravetz, Vice President, User-Centered Design
Area of Expertise: Partnering with customers through the user centered design process to develop products that truly enhance the customer experience
Andrea’s passion for user centered design stems from her own experience as a user of electronic research tools. She began her career as a lawyer but felt there was a way to deliver better systems and, with no technology experience or knowledge, went on to pursue a career doing exactly that. As an industry pioneer of usability testing and user feedback, Andrea is a strong advocate on the value of incorporating the user into the development process and frequently lectures on the topic. Full Profile
Chrysanne Lowe currently serves as Vice President, Marketing Communications for Academic and Government markets; overseeing marketing strategy and programs to support customer communities and facilitate value-based decision-making. Her global responsibilities include regionally-based marketing groups in New York, Singapore, and Amsterdam. Chrysanne’s portfolio includes the management of a series of customer engagement programs, including: Elsevier’s Customer Advisory Boards, Development Partners, and the Connect program, a global outreach initiative fostering communication and partnership with the research and information communities. Full Profile
Amanda Spiteri,VP Marketing, Corporate Markets
Areas of Expertise: Electronic publishing, role of scientific information in supporting innovation and R&D productivity, application and impact of search technologies in the STM publishing industry
Prior to being appointed to the VP Marketing for Corporate Markets in 2008 , Amanda served as the Director of Bibliographic Databases and oversaw the marketing of all Academic & Goverment electronic products, guiding the highly successful marketing launch of Scopus. Amanda is an authority on leading edge STM information, full text publishing and the Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) industry in terms of issues and developments. Full Profile
Chris Shillum, Vice President Publishing Technology
Areas of Expertise: Electronic Publishing, Technology Transfer, Infrastructure Systems.
Chris is responsible for business/technology interaction for online products such as ScienceDirect, Scopus and Scirus. He has worked in various capacities on ScienceDirect since its inception in 1997, when he designed and implemented the original end-to-end content workflow. More recently, he led Elsevier's technical participation in the CrossRef linking program. Chris is currently driving the incorporation of Shibboleth federated authentication technology into Elsevier's products and advocating for its use more broadly in the industry. Full Profile
Ammy Vogtlander, Vice President Web Strategy & Business Development
Areas of Expertise: Impact of web concepts and technologies in the STM publishing industry
Ammy Vogtlander currently serves as Vice President of Web Strategy and Business. She is responsible for identifying opportunities related to new Web concepts and technologies which influence scientific publishing. With a deep understanding of online publishing and information retrieval processes, she is a regular speaker at industry conferences. Ammy has a strong interest in how new web concepts and collaborative models can improve and facilitate knowledge sharing and dissemination in online communities. As part of her role, Ammy sets strategic direction for Elsevier globally with the key content aggregators and distributors, such as web search engines and ebook sellers. Full Profile
Niels Weertman, Vice-President Product Management, Scopus and SciVal
Areas of expertise: product development, search and navigation, electronic dissemination of research, research performance analysis, global research trends, research management
As Vice-President of Product Management, Niels currently heads a key group within Elsevier that focuses on the creation and delivery of solutions and services enabling decision makers in academia and government to maximize the potential of scientific research in today's increasingly complex landscape. Full Profile
Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Product Management for ScienceDirect
Areas of Expertise: Blogging, RSS feeds
Rafael Sidi is Vice President, Product Management for ScienceDirect, Elsevier's main online journal platform, offering over 2,500 scientific journals (and books) to customers worldwide. He also leads the new Search and Discovery solutions for Academic and Government Products. Rafael has been with Elsevier since 2001 and has been leading product development efforts for Engineering Information and then for the Engineering & Technology division. Full Profile
