John H. Graham IV, CAE, has been President and CEO of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) since, 2003.  During the first year of his tenure, ASAE and GWSAE completed an historic merger resulting in a new organization, ASAE and Center for Association Leadership.  ASAE & The Center are more than 22,000 association executives and industry partners representing nearly 11,000 organizations, with a budget of $35 million and a staff of 135.  Members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies, and voluntary organizations across the United States and in 50 countries around the globe, as well as provide products and services to the association community.

Before ASAE, he served the American Diabetes Association for 24 years in the capacity of CEO, Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Affiliate, National Director of Affiliate Development, Associate Executive Vice President for Operations and Deputy Executive Vice President.  Prior to coming to ASAE, John served the Boy Scouts of America for nine years.  Currently he serves on the Association Committee of 100, US Chamber of Commerce; BBB Wise Giving Alliance Board of Directors; Convention Industry Council Board of Directors and America’s Promise Board of Trustee’s.

John earned a bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College.

Bruce Heterick is Director for Library Relations at JSTOR, ARTstor, Portico, and Aluka, where he has responsibility for extending access to these initiatives on a global basis. Bruce has spent over 20 years in the higher education and library communities.  He was an application developer at Virginia Tech before joining VTLS in 1988.  Bruce held senior management positions at The Faxon Company and Blackwells, and prior to joining JSTOR in 1999, was a technology consultant in SunGard SCT’s higher education consulting practice.  Bruce is active in CNI, Educause, and NISO, and has written extensively on information management issues.

He holds a B.S. in Management from Virginia Tech, and a M.B.A. from the Pamplin School at Virginia Tech.

Chuck Koscher is Director of Technology at CrossRef and has been actively involved in improving the linking infrastructure for their member's scholarly publications. As a technologist his focus is on implementation concerns driven by data management, data quality and on the development of new services and standards initiatives. Chuck has more than 17 years experience in software services relating to content management and structured data delivery systems.

Ida Kubiszewski, is a co-founded the Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.  Written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work, it provides a much needed peer reviewed, trusted source of information for students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as the general public.  She is now working as the Managing Editor for a new magazine/journal hybrid called Solutions, scheduled to launch in 2009.  Solutions will be an outlet for discussions focusing on solutions to the complex problems we are now facing in the context of whole systems design for a sustainable and desirable future.

Ida received her B.A. in Astronomy and Physics from Boston University and her M.A. in Energy and Environmental Analysis through the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies also at Boston University.  She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. through the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.

James Testa, Senior Director of Editorial Development and Publisher Relations joined Thomson, formerly ISI, in 1983 as manager of the Publisher Relations Department.  In 1996 Mr. Testa was appointed the Director of Editorial Development.  In this position he directed a staff of information professionals in the evaluation and selection of journals and other publication formats for coverage in the various Thomson products.  In 2007 he was named Senior Director, Editorial Develoment & Publisher Relations.  In this combined role he continues to build content for Thomson products and work to increase efficiency in communication with the international STM publishing community.  He is a member of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and has spoken frequently on behalf of Thomson in Asia, South America, and Europe.

Jevin West is a PhD student in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle.  In addition to his research in mathematical biology, he has been the major developer behind the Eigenfactor project.  Applying network theory to problems in bibliometrics, Eigenfactor ranks scholarly journals much like Google ranks web pages.  Jevin has written several papers on the subject and has been invited to give talks at Harvard, national librarian conferences, the European Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.  Presently, he is working with research groups from SSRN (the social science research network) and Thompson Scientific.  He is also working with librarians from various institutions that are using Eigenfactor to better inform subscription decisions.  His most current projects include using the citation network to map the structure of science, extending the journal rankings to paper and author-level rankings, and improving scientific search using Eigenfactor methods in order to reduce the time it takes scholars to find salient papers.

Johan Bollen is the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.  His present research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture.  He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries.

He has been a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Digital Library Research & Prototyping team) and was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005 after holding a position as research assistant at the Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.  His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Johan holds BA, MS, and PhD degrees in the area of Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels.  His PhD is on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation.

John Krueger is Scientist–Investigator for the Division of Investigative Oversight in the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources.  He joined ORI in 1993, where he developed methods for the forensic examination of questioned images and data in science and advises institutions and journal editors with issues involving falsified images in science. 

Prior to joining ORI, Dr. Krueger was the Wunsch Fellow in Biophysical Engineering at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (‘75-‘93), where he was a senior faculty member  in physiology/biophysics & medicine and taught medical and graduate students.  He also trained New York Academy of Science summer research interns and was an Established Fellow in Research for the New York Heart Association.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Iowa State University (‘71), trained at Imperial College London, was a locum lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (‘71-72), and then became a postdoctoral fellow the Center for Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle (‘72-75).

Sean O’Doherty, is Vice President of Sales for The Berkeley Electronic Press.  Trained as a librarian, he has worked in technical services at two medical school libraries and as an OCLC trainer for AMIGOS. For most of his professional life, Sean has held various sales positions in library technology companies including CLSI, Innovative Interfaces, Ovid Technologies, and Ex Libris. He took a brief break from the library world during the Internet boom, working as regional sales manager for WebCT (since merged with Blackboard). He joined bepress in January 2005.  Sean has an MLS from UC Berkeley.

Jason Bentley oversees community development and copyright issues at Scribd. Jason helps nearly 400,000 registered members use Scribd's services to publish documents online and to integrate rich documents into websites, Intranets, blogs, and web applications. As copyright agent, Jason manages incidents of copyright infringement in the Scribd community and oversees Scribd's TMS copyright filtering system for publishers. Jason also educates community members and the public on copyright issues in user-generated social environments. Prior to joining Scribd, Jason was a documentation and Intranet consultant to NetApp, eBay, Cisco Systems, and other companies making the transition from legacy information management systems to new technologies like SharePoint and wikis. Jason is a native of Detroit and attended Eastern Michigan University. He currently lives in Oakland, California.

Dr. Norka Ruiz Bravo is Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the National Institute of Health (NIH), where she oversees the Office of Extramural Research - NIH’s voice for all policies and guidelines concerning extramural research grants, which make up approximately 85% of the NIH budget. Her office oversees the development and implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy, Multiple Principal Investigator Policy, electronic submission of grants, and many other policies and issues that involve the extramural community. Dr. Bravo is responsible for the complete range of issues associated with scientific program implementation - grants policy development and implementation, management of grants, peer review policy, and the roles and responsibilities of grantee institutions and their compliance with policies and regulations.

She came to the NIH in 1990 as a scientific review administrator in the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and has held several key positions at NIH. Dr. Bravo received a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University, and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship, which began in physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, and finished in biochemistry and molecular biology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Ruiz Bravo was a research assistant professor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center and an assistant professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.