5 April 2002
Ingenta Completes Advisory Board
Ingenta named today the US-based members of its Advisory Board to focus on the trends and future business strategies in the information industry. "The five member Advisory Board consists of representatives from both the United States and the Europe. The members, whose advice is provided to the Ingenta PLC Board, have been selected for their expertise in specialist areas of the information industry," said David Brown, Director of Strategy. The group will come together four times a year - twice in the US and twice in Europe - to discuss longer term developments in the markets addressed by Ingenta and to help the company in formulating successful business strategies to address them.
The U.S.-based group has now been formally constituted and includes:
Mary Case, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) www.arl.org, is responsible for guiding the activities of the Association as it seeks to understand and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly information.
Clifford A Lynch, Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information www.cni.org, an organization dedicated to advancing scholarship through information technology, is an expert on digital information and its management. Lynch is a former Director of Library Automation for the University of California System.
Andrew Odlyzko, Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of, Minnesota www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzkao
has devoted 26 years to research and research management, written over 150 technical papers, and holds three patents. His expertise is in diverse areas, such as security, formal verification methods, parallel and distributed computation, auction technology, electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks.
Carol Tenopir, Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Ms. Tenopir has had a distinguished academic career including over 20 years on the faculty at the School of Library and information Studies at the University of Hawaii, is a recipient of the Steven I. Goldspeil research grant from Special Libraries Association (SLA) and has published extensively.
Mary Waltham, most recently President and Publisher for Nature and the Nature family of journals in the US, and formerly Managing Director and Publisher of "The Lancet" in the UK, founded her own consulting company two years ago www.MaryWaltham.com. Mary has worked at a senior level in science and medical publishing companies across a range of media which includes textbooks, magazines, newsletters, journals and open learning materials.
Members of the Ingenta PLC Board are invited to attend the group's meetings which are co-ordinated by David Brown, Director of Strategy.
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