As Managing Director of Portico, Kate Wittenberg is responsible for leadership and management of ITHAKA’s digital preservation service. Prior to this position, Kate served as Project Director, Client and Partnership Development in ITHAKA’s Strategy and Research group, where she focused on helping clients develop organizational and business models for their digital projects. Before joining ITHAKA, Kate served as Director of EPIC (the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia), an initiative in digital scholarship and publishing, and a model partnership for libraries, presses, and academic IT departments. Kate has extensive experience in preservation, digital publishing, and new models of scholarly communication.