BIOGRAPHIES
Sabrina Holley-Williams
Program Manager, Customer Solutions, Digital Science
Sabrina joined Digital Science in 2024, where she manages the delivery of complex engagements to federal government agencies, non-profit funders, and publishers. She works with technical teams to support customers through private instances, dashboard configuration, as well as data and analytics services. Sabrina holds an MS in Library and Information Science and has over twenty years of experience supporting academic, federal, and corporate researchers.
Karie Kirkpatrick
American Society for Microbiology
Karie Kirkpatrick is a Journals Platform Analyst at the American Society for Microbiology. In addition to her role at ASM, she brings over 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, including roles in digital strategy, platform management, and bibliometric analysis at GeoScienceWorld, American Physiological Society, and The MIT Press.
Tanya Laplante
Director of Product Platforms (Academic), Oxford University Press
Tanya works closely with key stakeholders and oversees the strategic development of research publishing platforms, including Oxford Academic. She is dedicated to delivering innovative roadmaps with capabilities and features that highlight and promote Oxford University Press’s and its partners’ first-class publishing while meeting the needs of users, customers, and partners.
Leslie McIntosh
VP, Research Integrity and Security, Digital Science
Dr Leslie McIntosh is the VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science and the founder of Ripeta, where she develops algorithms to detect trust markers in scientific manuscripts. An internationally recognised speaker and consultant for NASA and the NIH, she holds a PhD in Public Health and specialises in forensic scientometrics to improve global research quality. Her work on research integrity was the most-read RetractionWatch post of 2022.
Alice Meadows
Open Research Ecosystem Consulting/Independent Consultant
Alice is an independent consultant specializing in open research and collaborating with Open Research Ecosystem Consulting, having co-founded MoreBrains Cooperative. Her career spans scholarly publishing (Blackwell/Wiley) and research infrastructures, including roles at ORCID and NISO. Actively involved in the scholarly communications community, she was SSP President in 2021-22 and writes for Scholarly Kitchen. Alice champions a robust, open global research infrastructure, focusing on metadata and workflows, and is committed to improving DEI&A in scholarly communications and society.
Julia Mullen
Books Administrator, Editorial, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
At ASCE Julia supports the development and production of scholarly books and conference proceedings. Her role spans editorial review, workflow coordination, and guiding authors and editors through the publication process to ensure high-quality, accessible, and value-driven content. Julia joined ASCE shortly after graduating from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and as an early-career professional, she is passionate about advancing ethical and inclusive practices in scholarly publishing. She was recently a Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Fellow and has contributed to industry conversations regarding her research on building ethical infrastructure for peer review as a presenter at the 15th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference and as an author for CSE Science Editor.
Jennie Noakes
Client Manager, Wiley Peer Review & Production Services
Jennie Noakes (she/her) is an Editorial Client Manager in Peer Review Services for Wiley’s Partner Solutions, where she oversees a portfolio of society-owned journals. She is also a research integrity expert, with experience leading ethics investigations. Jennie is a member of the Publishing Solutions Research Integrity Working Group, the Publishing Solutions Professional Development Committee, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and the Committee on Publication Ethics. Jennie was a post-doctoral fellow in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a PhD in Music Anthropology (University of Pennsylvania) and a BA in Music (Trinity College, Hartford).
Deborah Plavin
Director of Publishing – Digital and Analytics, American Physiological Society
Deborah Plavin is Director of Publishing – Digital and Analytics at the American Physiological Society, where she leads analytics strategy for the society’s digital publishing platform. With more than 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, she interprets platform data to understand changing reader behavior in an increasingly distributed discovery ecosystem. Deborah looks at how people discover and engage with content, using behavioral data to surface friction points, as well as inform content and platform design decisions. Her work centers on defining and implementing performance metrics that better connect user behavior with publishing strategy and measurable outcomes.
Tyler Ruse
Director, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science
Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of data-focused products. Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, and has been working with scholarly, trade, and education publishers for more than twenty years. Over these two decades, Tyler has held leadership and technology roles at RR Donnelley, LibreDigital, Ingram Content Group, and OCLC in addition to the previous 7 years at Digital Science. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Colleen Scollans
Partner (Marketing & Digital Practice Lead) Clarke & Esposito
Colleen Scollans is one of the publishing and association industry’s foremost authorities on modern marketing, digital strategy, and the use of AI for revenue generation, workflow optimization, and audience experience and insight. As a Partner at Clarke & Esposito, she works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and data — advising associations, publishers, and scientific societies on how to modernize their operations and build the products, strategies, and capabilities needed to grow in a rapidly changing landscape.
Colleen came to C&E from Oxford University Press, where as Chief Marketing Officer she led a remarkable digital transformation of an iconic 450-year-old institution. As CMO, she led a team of more than 250 marketing, product / digital strategy, and data and analytics professionals across global operations.
Kim Stuart
Managing Editor, Kidney360, American Society of Nephrology
Kim is the Managing Editor of Kidney360, an online-only Open Access journal. Her experience with scholarly publishing began in college, where she served as the Managing Editor for her university’s undergraduate research journal. After graduating in 2020, she became part of the American Society of Nephrology’s publication team. She also serves as the Marketing Committee co-chair for the Council of Science Editors.
Kristina Vrouwenvelder
Assistant Director, Publications, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Dr. Kristina Vrouwenvelder is Assistant Director, Publications at the nonprofit American Geophysical Union, where she manages the cross-disciplinary journal AGU Advances and the Community Science Exchange and supports strategy, research impact, and open data and software across AGU’s 24 journals. She is a co-lead of the AGU team supporting work on guidelines for the governance of Indigenous data in scholarly publishing.
Aaron Wood
Head, Product and Content Management, American Psychological Association
Aaron Wood leads product development and strategy, as well as indexing and production systems, for the American Psychological Association, a publisher of books, journals, courseware, video, and discovery solutions. His experience in scholarly communications and publishing is broad and multinational. Wood has led metadata and technical services at academic libraries and consortia, streaming video and audio platform development, print and electronic book acquisitions and ecommerce solutions, full-text journal and book production and distribution, and abstracting and indexing discovery solutions. He is a member of STM’s Standard and Technology Committee and the Crossref Board of Directors.