Always one of Atypon’s chief innovators, Marty has been responsible for the definition and delivery of continual improvements to the Literatum online publishing platform since 2010. As Senior Vice President, Product, he took on product development for all Atypon technologies. He now oversees day-to-day operations of the entire company. Previously, Marty was the vice president of systems and technology for Harmonic’s digital television division. Prior to that, Marty founded Cogent Technology, where he led the HP-IBM-Sun design and implementation of a distributed object-based multimedia framework that became an early multimedia standard. In fact, Marty has always been an innovator. In 1983, he co-founded Parallax Graphics, a pioneer in computer graphics and digital video hardware and software.

Gordon joined Atypon after serving as CEO of Berkeley Electronic Press. Before that he was president of Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell) for seven years, helping transform the company into the world’s largest society publisher and spearheading the development of its digital publishing platform. Gordon has also been the director of information systems for Aster Publishing (later Advanstar) and a vice president for the Thomson Corporation, the precursor to Thomson Reuters. He holds a BS in computer science and an MBA from the University of Oregon.

Jonathan is responsible for setting and executing Atypon’s market and sales strategies as well as managing the sales and marketing teams. He has 25 years’ experience with publishing technologies and services, including 15 years in a business development leadership role establishing relationships with the world’s largest publishers and online retailers. His areas of expertise include content strategy, publishing workflows, professional services, product marketing, eBook production and distribution, content conversion, and print on demand. Jonathan holds a BA in English and creative writing from Dartmouth College and an MA in English literature from New York University.

Over the past 17 years, Hisham has been involved in several high-impact initiatives at Atypon, including writing Crossref, onboarding the company’s largest clients, and establishing the engineering office in Amman, Jordan. His continued focus is making sure Atypon’s clients’ needs are met by its software, DevOps, and QA engineering teams. Prior to joining Atypon, Hisham developed the first guaranteed message delivery system for Slam Dunk Network; previously he was a principal member of the team that built Oracle’s JDeveloper tool. He earned a BS in computer engineering from Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.

Leveraging his vast experience in managing technology project teams across multiple industries, Himanshu ensures smooth service provision to some of Atypon’s largest clients. He joined Atypon in 2008 as a senior project manager after working in project management at Macrovision and holding various technical and engineering positions at eMeta, CapGemini/Ernst & Young, Verizon, and Tata. In his current role as the voice of Atypon’s customers, Himanshu ensures smooth service provision to some of the company’s largest clients.?He holds a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science from the University of Mumbai and is the coauthor of a book on project management—#Project Management Tweet.

As head of the Literatum product team at Atypon, Eleni is responsible for developing new ways for publishers and their customers to leverage the platform to help grow publishers’ online businesses and improve the online research and reading experiences of their customers. She holds ten patents in the areas of gaming and charging in mobile networks and has developed several commercially successful products for the mobile, online gaming, and publishing industries. Eleni is the coauthor of a book about service management and has been a contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). She holds a master’s degree in telecommunications and computer science from the National Technical University of Athens, Postgraduate Certificate in Business Research Methods and an MBA from the University of Piraeus.

Nikos has been with Atypon since its very early days and has played an instrumental role in the company’s growth. With more than 20 years’ experience in SGML/XML technologies, Nikos oversees Atypon’s Content Migration team. He has served on the NISO JATS DTD Standardization Committee, the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Committee, and the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS) Committee. He is also a member of the JATS4R (JATS for Reuse) initiative. Nikos holds a BS in mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, and as Fulbright scholar earned an MS and a PhD in computer science from New York University.

With more than 20 years’ experience in project management, software development, and engineering, Mike joined Atypon in 2010 to oversee the company’s Project Management Office. Mike later assumed the role of chief client advocate, working closely with customers to understand their business goals and ensure their technology needs are being met. Previously, Mike was the director of professional services with Macrovision, whose eMeta division was acquired by Atypon in 2008. He has held various software engineering positions at Standard & Poor’s as well as at Lockheed Martin and other military contractors. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Penn State University.

Nash joined Atypon in 2006 as a strategic marketing manager, with program management responsibilities for Atypon’s largest projects. He now handles project and client relationship management for European clients and also heads up Atypon’s UK office. Before working in scholarly publishing, Nash was employed as a software engineer, product manager, QA manager, and software management team leader. He worked with some of the world’s largest publishers, including Oxford and Cambridge University presses and Blackwell, where he was the product manager for the company’s online journals platform. He also helped launch Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. Nash holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Manchester.

Dino, a digital innovation and design strategist with 15 years’ experience advising organizations on the value of design-led innovation, has created hundreds of integrated, multi-channel campaigns. Before coming to Atypon, he led Rocketgraph, a startup focusing on data visualization of cloud services for visual storytelling. Dino was also responsible for creative and client initiatives at Cambo, a digital agency where he developed award-winning work for Kellogg’s, Starwood, Domino’s, and L’Oréal. He was also client services director at Upstream Systems and a usability specialist at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon). Dino has a BS in computer science and an MS in human-computer interaction from DePaul University

Rob has been with Atypon since 2015, working with the MIT Press, the American Meteorological Society, and SAGE Publications. Prior to joining Atypon, Rob was CTO of AutorepairConnect and director of engineering at Findlaw—both web platform companies. He also led the Java 3D team at Sun Microsystems for eight years. Rob holds a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Megan has worked in marketing management in both the corporate and not-for-profit worlds, building marketing teams and strategies for high-tech startups, publishing, and arts organizations. Prior to joining Atypon in 2015 as the company’s first marketing director, Megan was the vice president of marketing at Aptara, a publishing services company, where the marketing department she built and corporate rebranding she led contributed to the company’s growth and sale. Megan holds a BA from the University of Mary Washington and an MBA from George Washington University.

Bruce has been designing and implementing electronic publishing workflows and solutions for over 35 years. He is the developer of the Crossref Metadata Deposit Schema and co-authored the original NLM DTD. He served on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Board of Directors from 2005 to 2013 and is currently co-chair of the NISO STS working group as well as an active member of its JATS and BITS working groups. Prior to joining Atypon, he was CEO of Inera, which was acquired by Atypon in 2019. His 16 years of joint work with Crossref earned Inera and Crossref the 2014 NEPCo Publishing Collaboration Award, and he was awarded the status of NISO Fellow in 2020. Bruce continues to lead software development for Inera’s eXtyles and Edifix, and works with Atypon customers on workflow solutions.?

Since joining Atypon in 2013, Dorothy has worked with the content conversion team and front-end developers to troubleshoot the display of XML-based content. She provides specifications and recommendations for migrating unusual content formats, such as official revisions to reference works, interactive question/answer content, and complex conference proceedings. Dorothy is the author of XML and InDesign (O’Reilly Media, 2013), a book that draws on her background in graphic design and print publishing. Prior to Atypon, Dorothy worked with XML/XSLT for Eastman Kodak and Jouve NA. She holds a BFA from Jacksonville University and an MFA from Syracuse University.

Nikos studied civil engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, then pursued his interest in artificial intelligence, earning an MS in intelligent systems from the University of Sussex and a PhD from Britain’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). In 2006, he became a researcher at the Institute for Research and Technology of Thessaly and also taught artificial intelligence, web technologies, and digital entrepreneurship at the University of Thessaly. His research has focused on the application of biologically inspired computing to the problem of personalizing information. In 2011, he founded Noowit, whose software created intelligent newspapers and magazines that adapt to the interests of individual readers. Atypon acquired Noowit in 2017, when Nikos joined the staff.

Christos, who oversees the development of the Atypon eReader, has over 15 years of international experience in Greece, France, the UK, and China working on key enterprise and consumer products and has led product development teams in the education, defense, telecommunications, and entertainment markets. He is a data-driven product manager, with a focus on continuous innovation and experience in establishing and executing mobile-first product strategies. Christos began his career as a software engineer, earning his bachelor’s degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He also holds an MsC in digital signal processing applications in communication systems from Lancaster University.

Alberto oversees the development of Atypon’s open science tools and initiatives. Until 2017, he was CEO and founder of Authorea, a collaborative authoring tool for researchers. Alberto holds degrees in astrophysics and information and computer science from Harvard University, UCLA, and University College London. His dissertation, on scientific collaboration networks, received an award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. At the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Alberto worked on data repository software and promoted open access among particle physicists.

Matias has a decade of experience building software that facilitates scholarly research. The creator of the Manuscripts authoring tool, he joined Atypon in 2017. Before that, he was the CTO of Papersapp.com, the creator of Papers, a reference manager for academic authors. Matias co-founded a mobile software development company while a student at the University of Cambridge, from which he holds a PhD in computational biology. He also worked as a programmer in a UCL-based research group while a student at Imperial College London, where he received a BS in biochemistry. He has published widely in the fields of machine learning and bioinformatics.

Hong oversees Atypon’s R&D on and implementation of artificial intelligence–driven information discovery technologies. Previously, he was the CTO of Digital Fineprint, a startup that leveraged machine learning algorithms for the insurance industry. Prior to that he was a senior software engineer and development manager at Schlumberger and spent a year designing race-car games at Eutechnyx. He holds an MS in electronic and electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Sheffield, a PhD in 3D modeling with artificial intelligence algorithms from Aberystwyth University, an MBA in digital marketing and strategy from Oxford, and a certification in machine learning from Stanford. He has published widely on computer science.