Portico Advisory Committee Biographies

John Ewing is the Executive Director and Publisher of the American Mathematical Society. He previously held a position as professor of mathematics at Indiana University from 1973-1995 where he also served as Chair of the department. He was editor-in-chief for the two major journals of mathematical exposition, the Mathematical Intelligencer and the American Mathematical Monthly, and served on the editorial boards of several book series published by Springer-Verlag. Ewing received his B.S. from St. Lawrence University in 1966, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1971.

Kevin M. Guthrie is the president of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization committed to helping accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community. Ithaka focuses on three operational areas: providing strategic services to assist not-for-profit organizations in developing sustainable economic models, providing shared administrative services to a small family of affiliated entities; and organizing and conducting research on the impact of advancing technologies on higher education. Kevin is the former president and current chairman of JSTOR and serves as a trustee for ARTstor. Previously he started his own software development company and was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New-York Historical Society: Lessons from One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival (Jossey Bass). He holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Adminsitration from Columbia University.

Daniel Greenstein works at the University of California in the Office of the President where he is Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information and University Librarian for the California Digital Library (CDL). Before joining UC in May 2002, he served for two and a half years as director of the Digital Library Federation. Dan was a founding director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service in the United Kingdom, and founding co-director of the Resource Discovery Network, a distributed service whose mission is to enrich learning, research, and cultural engagement by facilitating new levels of access to high-quality Internet resources.

Anne R. Kenney is Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services (IRIS) in Cornell University Library. For over fifteen years, she has led research and instruction initiatives focusing on digital imaging and digital preservation. She is the co-author of the three award-winning monographs, including Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Research Libraries Group, 2000) and Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (1996). She serves as the principal investigator on an NEH supported training program on digital preservation management that attracts participants from around the world. Anne is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists and served on the RLG/OCLC Working Group on the Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository, and on the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group on Digital Preservation. Anne currently serves on the Joint Committee on Cuban Libraries and Archives.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Carol A. Mandel is dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University, which includes the Libraries, Media Services, University Archives and the NYU Press. She has been deputy university librarian at Columbia University, associate university librarian for technical and access services at the University of California, San Diego, and associate executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Research Libraries Group, the Board of Directors of ArtStor, the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, chair of the Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries, and President Elect of the Digital Library Federation.

David M. Pilachowski is College Librarian at Williams College. He has held a variety of public service and administrative positions throughout his career in academic libraries. He participated in writing College Library Standards, 2000 which became the model for all Association of College and Research Libraries standards. He also served as an advisor to the Mellon Foundation on JSTOR while Director of Libraries at alpha test site Denison University and involved Williams in the study of nonsubscription journal costs published by Council on Library and Information Resources. He was the founding Chair of the directors group of the CONSORT Colleges of Ohio and currently holds leadership positions in the Boston Library Consortium and the newly established NExpress consortium.

Rebecca Simon is Associate Director of University of California Press and Director of the Journals & Digital Publishing Division, one of the largest journals publishing programs in the country, publishing 54 journals with annual sales of $5.2 million. During the course of a career spanning twenty years, Rebecca has held managerial, marketing, and editorial positions in scholarly, legal, and professional publishing. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, chaired the Journals Committee of the American Association of University Presses and is currently a member of the CrossRef Committee on Institutional Repositories.

Michael Spinella is the Executive Director of JSTOR where he is responsible for the overall operations and strategic direction of the organization. JSTOR is a not-for-profit online archive of over 500 scholarly journals covering 40 disciplines. It serves a global community of academic libraries, research institutes, government agencies and other educational institutions. Prior to JSTOR, Mike served for 12 years as the Director of Membership and Meetings for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the scientific society that publishes the journal Science. At Science, one of Mr. Spinella's responsibilities was developing the initial business model for Science Online personal and site-wide licenses. Mike has an MBA from The George Washington University, a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelors degree from the College of William and Mary.

Suzanne E. Thorin is the Ruth Lilly University Dean of University Libraries and Associate Vice President for Digital Library Development at Indiana University. The IU Bloomington Libraries, with combined holdings of over 6.5 million volumes, rank 12th in the Association of Research Libraries. An active researcher in the field of digital libraries, Suzanne directs a number of projects as associate vice president. These projects cover such areas as digital repositories for faculty publications, the integration of digital library services with instructional technology, and the expansion of common electronic library resources available to all IU campuses. Thorin holds a bachelor's degree in music education from North Park College in Chicago and master's degrees in music history and literature and in library science from the University of Michigan. Effective October 1, 2005, she will become the University Librarian and Dean of the Library at Syracuse University.

Craig Van Dyck is Vice President, Operations, in the Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishing division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He is responsible for Production and Manufacturing, and for Finance and Administration, plus a special brief for corporate content management systems. He has been with Wiley since 1996. From 1986-1996, he was with Springer-Verlag New York, as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, for the last two years. He worked from 1978-86 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Ablex Publishing. Van Dyck served as Chairman of the AAP's Enabling Technologies Committee from 1995-1998, and was instrumental in the development of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system; he represents Wiley on the Board of Directors of the International DOI Foundation. He is Chair of the CrossRef Search committee of CrossRef, the multi-publisher linking service, and is Wiley's alternate Board member. He is also on the Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Mary Waltham founded her own consulting company (www.MaryWaltham.com) in 1999 to help scholarly publishers confront the rapid change that the networked economy poses to their traditional business models and to develop new opportunities to build publications and online services that deliver outstanding scientific and economic value. Mary has worked at a senior level in science and medical publishing companies across a range of media, which include journals, magazines, textbooks, newsletters, and open learning materials. Mary has served on US National Academy of Science committees investigating publishing issues. She was until recently a non-Executive Director of the Institute of Physics Publishing and is currently a Foundation Board Director of Princeton Public Library.