Mark is the founder of Figshare, a research data dissemination platform. He is fresh out of academia, having completed his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London and previously studying genetics in both Newcastle and Leeds. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionise the research community.
Kevin S. Hawkins is a librarian and the first director of library publishing at the University of North Texas Libraries. Until recently he was director of publishing operations for Michigan Publishing, the primary academic publishing enterprise of the University of Michigan, which includes the University of Michigan Press and other brands and services.
Matt Schultz is currently serving as the Program Manager for the MetaArchive Cooperative, a program of the Educopia Institute. In addition to serving as Program Manager for MetaArchive, he is also Project Manager for the NEH-funded Chronicles in Preservation project (2011-2013) that is studying and documenting preservation readiness practices for born-digital and digitized newspapers. Matt graduated Spring 2009 with a Master of Science in Information degree at the University of Michigan's School of Information.
