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.
The Team
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