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American Chemical Society

 

ACS Vice President Brandon Nordin

 

We are pleased to announce that the American Chemical Society has appointed Brandon Nordin as Vice President, Sales and Marketing in the ACS Publications Division.

 

Brandon most recently served as Publisher, Gale Digital Collections, where he brought vitality and achieved impressive business growth for a worldwide product group of high-profile online databases. While there, he focused on product development and sales strategy, formed strategic alliances with key partners such as the British Library, and secured licensing agreements with UK and German consortia, as well as opening up digital archive sales to China, Japan, and Brazil.

 

Brandon previously served as Vice President and General Manager with McGraw-Hill Technology Education, where from 1996-2004 he led a technology publishing and training group that became a brand leader in the computer skills certification market. He launched, recruited, and trained a 20+-person academic sales team, and worked closely with major trade sales channel partners to launch new product marketing and licensing initiatives, including export sales and IP licensing, to expand market share.

 

Prior to his time at McGraw-Hill, Brandon was Vice-President and Director of Marketing and International Sales for IDG Books Worldwide. Brandon began his publishing career in 1982 with Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster, where he handled editorial acquisitions in STM disciplines, and served also in marketing and sales roles. A graduate of Hamilton College, he received his AB in History and Literature.

 

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
NAMES DR. BRIAN D. CRAWFORD
PRESIDENT OF PUBLICATIONS DIVISION

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Brian D. Crawford, currently Senior Vice President, Journals Publishing Group, has been selected as President of the ACS Publications Division. Brian’s appointment is effective August 6; he succeeds Robert Bovenschulte, who is retiring after 10 years as President of the ACS Publications Division. The Division publishes or copublishes 36 premier chemistry journals and Chemical & Engineering News, as well as reference books and conference proceedings.

Brian was selected after an extensive international search involving an executive search firm specializing in scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing and a prestigious Search Committee drawn from the ACS Board of Directors, the ACS Governing Board for Publishing, and ACS Journal Editors. All of us were impressed with Brian’s breadth of significant accomplishments at ACS and in his previous positions over a 22-year span. We were particularly excited about his dynamic vision for the organization, understanding of the challenges facing publishing at a time of rapid change, business acumen, leadership skills, international recognition and renown in the STM arena, commitment to excellence and collaboration, and impressive educational credentials.

Brian joined ACS in December 2004 after a distinguished 14-year career at John Wiley & Sons. Among the numerous accomplishments achieved during his leadership at ACS are the establishment of broadened  access models for the Society’s journals content, including a new sales approach for the ACS Legacy Archives; development and implementation of a value-based pricing plan for the Society’s web-based journals; redesign of the ACS Publications website and journal home pages; launch of three new journals—ACS Chemical Biology, Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C, and ACS Nano; and pursuit of a digital end-to-end XML workflow system, incorporating the new ACS Paragon Plus web-based system for managing the author submission and editorial peer review process.

Prior to joining ACS, Brian was Vice President, STM Publishing Director, Global Life and Medical Sciences at John Wiley & Sons. In that capacity, he directed the strategic business development of Wiley’s life and medical sciences publishing worldwide. During his Wiley career, he also had responsibility as STM Publishing Director for all U.S.-based STM journals across life/medical sciences and chemistry/physical sciences disciplines. His positions at Wiley included a managerial assignment in the U.K. and entailed editorial outreach to professional societies internationally. In other publishing positions, Brian worked for Alan R. Liss and Academic Press.

Brian earned a B.S. in biochemistry in 1976 from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in biophysics in 1982 from The Johns Hopkins University. He was a visiting lecturer/adjunct associate chemistry professor at Towson State University; a fellow/staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory; and an Assistant Professor in the Biology Program and Director of the Molecular Biology Honors Program at Long Island University in Brooklyn. He has published numerous scientific papers, as well as articles on publishing.

Brian has been on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers since 2001 and is currently serving a two-year term as Chairman of the Executive Council. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Publishers Association and the Wiley Foundation.

Please join us in congratulating Brian on his new position. We are looking forward to working with Brian, the Publications Division, and Chemical Abstracts Service to ensure continuing ACS pre-eminence in the increase and diffusion of chemistry knowledge worldwide.

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