NFAIS Board: 2011 - 2012
President
Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie
RILM Editor-in-Chief
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie is editor-in-chief of RILM Abstracts of
President-Elect
Suzanne BeDell
Managing Director
Elsevier
Suzanne BeDell currently is the General Manager of Dialog and leads its global operations. She was appointed to this position in July 2008, when Dialog became part of the ProQuest family. Prior to joining Dialog, Suzanne was Senior Vice President of Publishing, where she managed ProQuest's Higher Education Publishing area. She joined ProQuest in 2001 as Vice President and Publisher and played instrumental roles in the acquisition of Serials Solutions, the expansion of Chadwyck-Healey's publishing program, and the development of such critically-acclaimed products as Black Studies Center and ProQuest Central, the world's largest aggregated full-text database.
Before ProQuest, Suzanne was Senior Vice-President of Internet Products at Thomson Healthcare and Director of Electronic Product Development for Mosby, Inc., a Times-Mirror Company. She also held the role of Publisher at Mosby and launched Mosby's GenRx (now Mosby's Drug Consult), one of the first web-based applications produced by a medical publisher. Suzanne also held a variety of positions in McGraw-Hill's College Division, including as Publisher for Primis, the first electronic custom publishing system in Higher Education.
Suzanne holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Drake University. She maintains offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Morrisville, North Carolina.
Past-President
Keith MacGregor
Executive Vice President
Scientific and Scholarly Research
Thonson Healthcare & Science
Keith MacGregor is currently Executive Vice President,
Scientific and Scholarly Research, at Thomson Reuters, Healthcare
& Science. Prior to this appointment he was the Executive Vice
President of the Academic and Government strategic business unit
for Thomson Reuters Scientific business unit (f/k/a Institute for
Scientific Information), based in their Philadelphia, PA
headquarters. He has overall responsibility for this group, with
functional accountability for business strategy, sales, marketing,
product development, editorial and publisher relations. He has
played a central role in the development and ongoing enhancement of
the ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science databases. Keith joined
ISI in 1994 and has held editorial, development and sales positions
over the past 15 years.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Keith held a number of
senior management positions at International Data Group (IDG) in
Boston and Warren Gorham & Lamont publishers in New York City.
Keith received his BA from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.
Secretary
Mark Gauthier
The H. W. Wilson Company
Vice President, Indexing and Editorial Services
Mark Gauthier was appointed Vice President, Indexing and Editorial Services of the H. W. Wilson Company in December 2006. He joined Wilson in 1988 as an indexer for Library Literature. He was editor of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature before becoming Director of Indexing Services in 2001. He had been appointed Director of Indexing and Editorial Services in February 2006.
Mr. Gauthier currently manages the editorial and production operations of ten periodical indexes, the Wilson retrospective databases, full text services, and Current Biography. He also oversees Wilson's name and subject authority files. In addition, he coordinates the editorial studies conducted by the American Library Association's Committee on Wilson Indexes.
Mr. Gauthier earned the B.A. in French from the University of
Vermont and the M.S.L.S. from Catholic University of America. He is
also enrolled in the M.B.A. program in Operations Management at
Baruch College, City University of New York. He is a member of the
American Library Association and the American Society for
Information Science & Technology.
Treasurer
Chris McCue
Vice President, Marketing
CAS
Chris McCue, Vice President, Marketing, has been with CAS since 1988. Ms. McCue began her career at CAS in the Editorial Division and has held a variety of positions in Marketing, with the majority of her experience in Product Marketing. Prior to CAS, Ms. McCue held supervisory positions as an analytical chemist at Battelle Memorial Institute and Roxanne Labs. She is currently responsible for global marketing of CAS products including functions such as brand management, promotions, product management, operations, and pricing strategies. Ms. McCue holds a B.A. in Chemistry and an M.B.A., both from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
BOARD MEMBERS
David Brown
President
Thomson Reuters IP Solutions
David
Brown is the President of the IP Solutions business of Thomson
Reuters. In this role, he is responsible for meeting the needs of
intellectual property professionals around the globe and managing
the business's patent and trademark solutions.
During his 20 years in the information industry, David has
held a variety of senior management roles, having previously served
as executive vice president of Corporate Markets for the Scientific
Business of Thomson Reuters. Prior to that, he held a number of
executive positions with Dialog, including executive vice president
and general manager, as well as senior vice president of NewsEdge
following its acquisition by Thomson.
David holds a master's degree in business administration from
the University of North Carolina and bachelor's degrees from the
University of Notre Dame in history and computer science. David
also serves on the board of the National Federation of Advanced
Information Services (NFAIS). He is based in London.
Richard (Ric) Davis
Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Government Printing Office (USGPO)
As Chief Technology Officer, Davis is responsible for the
Office of Programs,Strategy,
and Technology
which provides management support, process discipline,
business process reengineering and transparency to key agency
strategic programs. Davis also oversees the conceptualization and
development of GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys).
Davis has held various positions at GPO including: Acting
Superintendent of Documents, Managing Director of Library Services
and Content Management, Product Services Manager, Assistant
Director and Director of Electronic Information Dissemination
Services (EIDS,) head of the Electronic Transition Staff,
Management Analyst for Library Programs Service and Program Analyst
in the Technical Support Group. In these positions, Davis
contributed the development and management of GPO Access and GPO's
Federal Digital System. Prior to joining GPO, Davis worked for RJR
Nabisco. Davis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Political
Science at James Madison University. He was awarded a Master of
Arts degree in Government by the College of William and Mary. He
has also completed additional graduate work at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University.
Mary Sauer-Games
Vice President, Publishing -- Humanities & STM
ProQuest
David Gillikin
Chief, Bibliographic Services
National Library of Medicine
Ellen Herbst
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Commerce
U.S. Department of Commerce
Ellen Herbst joined the federal government as Director, National
Technical Information Service (NTIS), effective July 11, 2005. As
an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIS serves our
nation as the largest central resource for government-funded
scientific, technical, engineering, and business related
information available today. She has since been appointed as
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
Ellen has spent 25 years in private industry with extensive
involvement with growing businesses in the security, processing and
imaging systems markets. She has held senior management positions
at Spectra Systems Corporation, a supplier of security materials,
and Giesecke & Devrient America, a supplier of banknotes,
security documents and currency automation systems. Ms. Herbst has
also held various key management positions at E.I. DuPont De
Nemours and Company where she served as Business Manager for their
Digital Systems and Equipment Service Divisions. In addition to
these qualifications Ellen has extensive experience in financial
and strategic planning and integration of acquisitions.
Ellen received her B.S. in Economics and Accounting in 1979
from The University of Delaware and her M.B.A. in 1995 from the
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. She will
complete the second year of a two-year term in February 2009.
Jeffrey Massa
President & CEO
YelloBrix
(non-voting member - ASIDIC representative
Judith Russell
Dean of University Libraries
George A Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
Judith Russell is currently the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida. Prior to this position she was the Superintendent of Documents at the U. S. Government Printing Office, a position that she held from 2003 to early 2007. Russell also served as Deputy Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the Federal agency that advises the President and the Congress on the information needs of the American people. There she helped develop and implement Commission policy and was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the agency from 1998 until she accepted the appointment as Superintendent of Documents. From 1991 to 1996, Russell was Director of GPO's Office of Electronic Information Services (EIDS). Russell's special library experience includes COMSAT Laboratories, the Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at The George Washington University, and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.She also has provided management, marketing, and technical services for private technology companies including Mead Data Central and the Disclosure Information Group. Russell is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where she received a Master of Science in Library Science. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross, Washington, DC.
Judy Salk
Director, Editorial Operations
Elsevier Engineering Information
Judy Salk has worked in the information industry for nearly 25 years, managing print and electronic publishing, data migration and digitization, and automation projects, with a focus on bibliographic data management and control. She is currently the Director of Editorial Operations for Engineering Information (Ei) at Elsevier, where she is in charge of content development, quality control, and indexing operations for Ei's A&I databases, including Compendex. Before joining Elsevier, she was the Director of Product Management and Development for Serials, and Serials Editorial Director at Bowker. She has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and attended graduate school at the University of Chicago.
Lynn Willis
Content Development Manager
America Psychological Association
Lynn Willis is the Content Development Manager for the American Psychological Association/PsycINFO. Her group is responsible for seeking out journal and book content for PsycINFO and gray literature for PsycEXTRA. They research journals, survey editors, develop assessment tools, etc. A good example of her work is on APA's current neuroscience expansion -- moving from pure psychology to including cellular and molecular neuroscience, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and other more biological and chemistry-oriented content. Lynn has a science background and worked on magazines and web content at the American Chemical Society (ACS) before she became managing editor for a group of FASEB journals. She has been with APA for 4 years.
