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OUR PEOPLE

COUNTER is a community-led organisation, which means that our team is supported by a wonderful group of people who volunteer their time and expertise to keep us on track.

If you want to get involved with one of our volunteer groups, please get in touch with Siân.

Our People

The Team

Two white women smile at the camera, with a backdrop of an exhibition hall. On the left Tasha is a bit shorter and has dark curly hair. On the right, Sian has straigh blonde hair. Both are wearing glasses.

Our team is small but perfectly formed!

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Tasha is our Executive Director – for which, read jack-of-all-trades. Whatever your question, she’s got the answer you need or knows where to find it.
Email Tasha

Siân Harris

Siân is our Communications and Engagement Manager, so if you want to know about why and how to get involved, drop her a line.
Email Siân

Our Volunteers

Board of Directors

Our Board oversees COUNTER’s strategy and financial sustainability.

Anne C Osterman (until May 2024)

Chair, Director, Virtual Library of Virginia and Interim Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at George Mason University, USA

Jo Lambert

Chair (from May 2024), Head of Data and Intelligence, Jisc, UK

Irene Barbers

Head of Acquisitions, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany

Richard Gallagher

President and Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews, USA

Heather Loehr

Coordinator of Information Services, Hanover College, USA

John McDonald (until May 2024)

Director of Product Management, Analytics & Assessment, EBSCO, USA

Gary Van Overborg (from May 2024)

Scholarly IQ, USA

Monica Westin (from May 2024)

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is responsible for COUNTER’s operations, including oversight of the Code of Practice.

David Sommer (Chair)

Chief Product Officer, Kudos, UK

Irene Barbers

Head of Acquisitions, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany

John Chodacki

Director, University of California Curation Center, USA

Jill Emery

Collection Development & Management Librarian and Professor, Portland State University, USA

Jacqueline Gillet

Research Librarian, INRIA, France

Nicola Haden

Head of Sales Operations, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

Svenja Nemetschek

Director of Customer Insights & Analytics, SpringerNature, UK

Bernd Oberknapp

General Manager ReDI, Freiburg University Library, Germany

Jack Ochs

VP, Strategic Planning and Analysis, American Chemical Society, USA

Oliver Pesch

Chief Product Strategist, EBSCO, USA

Matthew Ragucci

Director of Institutional Product Marketing, Wiley, USA

Heather Ruland Staines

Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, Delta Think, USA

Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova

Senior Director, Research Products Analytics, Elsevier, UK

Technical Oversight

This group makes sure the Code of Practice is maintained and developed in line with community needs, and answers technical questions where Tasha is stuck.

Senol Akay

Assistant Director, Data & Analytics, American Chemical Society, USA

Melissa Belvadi

User Experience & Collections Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

David Chaplin

Jisc, UK

Sean Duffy

Product Manager, OCLC, USA

Andrew Goldthorpe

Auditor, ABC, UK

Kathryn Hodgkinson

Auditor, ABC, UK

Athena Hoeppner

Discovery Services Librarian, University of Central Florida, USA

Beda Košata

Lead Developer, Big Dig Data and CELUS, Czechia

Sonja Lendi

Usage Research Manager, Elsevier, The Netherlands

Romane Lesiuk

INIST, France

Stuart Maxwell

Chief Operating Officer, Scholarly IQ, UK

Paul Meehan

Jisc, UK

Bernd Oberknapp

General Manager ReDI, Freiburg University Library, Germany

David Perry

Senior Programmer Analyst, New York University Libraries, USA

Oliver Pesch

Chief Product Strategist, EBSCO, USA

Thomas Porquet

Design Engineer, Couperin Consortium, France

Jon Slinn

Director – Digital Product Management – Insights, Wiley, UK

Peter Vlahakis

Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA, USA

Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova

Senior Director, Research Products Analytics, Elsevier, UK

Communications and Outreach

The comms team identifies gaps in our educational materials and helps us develop content to fill those gaps.

Nicola Haden

Head of Sales Operations, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

Jill Emery

Collection Development & Management Librarian and Professor, Portland State University, USA

Heather Ruland Staines

Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, Delta Think, USA

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