TIM BERNERS-LEE
PHIL BOURNE
TONY DURNIAK
Tony Durniak leads the Publications Group of IEEE which provides publishing services to the 37 technical societies that comprise the IEEE. These services include the design and operation of IEEE Xplore, the organization’s web publishing system that delivers through one interface the IEEE’s 122 periodicals, 400 annual conference proceedings, and more than 800 technical standards – a database of over 1.2 million documents dating back as far as to 1950 for some titles. Before joining the IEEE in 1998, Tony was an executive with the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society for seven years. He is a science journalist who previously worked as an editor for Business Week Magazine, and general manager of an online publishing project for McGraw-Hill. Trained as an Electrical Engineer at the City College of New York, Tony earned a Masters Degree from the Journalism School of Columbia University.
MICHAEL A. KELLER
Michael A. Keller is Stanford’s University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Founding Publisher of HighWire
Press, and Publisher of the University Press. He was educated at Hamilton College (biology & music), the SUNY/Buffalo
(musicology), and SUNY/Geneseo (librarianship). He has had library leadership roles at Cornell, UC/Berkeley, Yale, and
Stanford, also teaching at Cornell and Stanford. Keller has served on various boards (Alibris, Ebrary, Groxis, Cisco Learning
Institute, Hamilton College, Long Now Foundation) and consulted on facilities, services, organization, informatics, Internet &
general publishing widely (e.g. City of Ferrara, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Indiana University, Princeton University,
Singapore National Library, University of Edinburgh, University of Melbourne). He was a founder and then president of the Digital
Library Federation, during the latter assignment instigating the Aquifer project. During his watch at Stanford numerous
innovative exploitations of i.c.t. arose, among them: HighWire Press; LOCKSS/CLOCKSS; CourseWork (Sakai); the GATT Digital
Archive; and the Matthew Parker Online Library project.
JAMES PRINGLE
James Pringle is Vice President, Product Development, for Academic & Government Markets at Thomson Scientific. He is
responsible for ongoing development initiatives within the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM environment, including the Web of Science®
and the Journal Citation Reports®. He has held various development posts within Thomson over the past decade, and prior to
that held editorial, development, and management positions within McGraw-Hill, both in the US and the UK.
NIELS WEERTMAN
Niels Weertman joined Elsevier Amsterdam in 2001, working as a Management Trainee on a number of projects within electronic
publishing, production and sales. In 2002 he joined the ScienceDirect team as a Product Manager. He subsequently held various
positions within Elsevier’s Electronic Products group, such as the interim Head of Scirus. End of 2005, Niels joined Scopus, which
was launched in 2004 and has since grown to a successful new business with a strong client base, as the Head of Product
Management. In this role, he holds responsibility for product development of Scopus. He has a Master of Arts in Communication
and Information Sciences from the State University in Groningen.
