Annual Reviews competitors

Brian Napack is President and CEO of John Wiley and Sons (Wiley), a global research and learning company and one of the world’s leading publishers. He is the Chairman of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) which protects and promotes the central role that publishers play in enhancing culture, scholarship, education, the workforce and democracy. Brian also serves on the board of Zero-To-Three (Treasurer), a science-based advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. Prior to joining Wiley in 2017, Brian was a Senior Advisor at Providence Equity Partners, a leading investor in media, education, information, and communication. He has served as an active member on numerous boards including those of Blackboard Inc., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Burning Glass, Ascend Learning, Recorded Books, Ingram Industries, myON, EDMC, and Synergis Education. Prior to joining Providence in 2012, Brian served as president of Macmillan, the global publisher, in the U.S. from 2006 to 2012. During his tenure, he oversaw businesses in education, consumer books, digital media and magazines. Prior to Macmillan, Brian was a partner at L.E.K. Consulting, a global management consulting firm, serving as co-head of its Media and Entertainment practices and leading its Publishing and Education practices. He also founded and served as CEO of ThinkBox, an education software company focused on the early childhood market. At The Walt Disney Company, Brian founded Disney Educational Publishing and was a co-founder of Disney Interactive. He has also held senior roles at Simon & Schuster, the publishing company and at A.T. Kearney, a leading management consulting company. Brian received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College.

Adam M. Alonso is a Chief Executive Officer at BUILD Chicago and Social Work Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) and is based in Oak Park, Illinois. He has worked as Director Illinois Welcoming Center at Illinois Department of Human Services, Director of Community Engagement at United Way of Metro Chicago, and District Manager at KinderCare Education. Adam attended Loyola University Chicago between 1999 and 2002, University of Chicago between 1989 and 1993, and Argo Community High School between 1985 and 1989.

Alison Mudditt became Director of University of California Press in January 2011. Throughout its 100-year history UC Press has consistently nurtured and brought breakthrough scholarly voices and study into critical and emerging academic disciplines. With an uncompromising commitment to a set of core values rooted in the University of California’s inclusive public mission and commitment to academic excellence, Alison has reshaped the Press’s strategy and structure to enable it to meet the needs of its diverse audiences in the digital age. She has helped the Press to work in new ways that respond to changes in publishing while continuing to shape progressive discourse and to tap the power of technology to deliver work the way it can best be accessed and used by our diverse audiences. Previously Alison was Executive Vice President at SAGE Publications, Inc., where she led the SAGE's publishing programs across books, journals and digital during a period of tremendous growth at SAGE, including the acquisition of CQ Press and new publishing partnerships with major scholarly organizations such as the Association for Psychological Science and the American Sociological Association. Alison has twenty-five years experience in academic publishing which began at Blackwell in Oxford, UK, where she rose to become Publisher for the Humanities Division. In 1997, Alison moved to Taylor & Francis Inc. in Philadelphia as Publishing Director of the Behavioral Sciences Division. She was responsible for the global growth and consolidation of this division, as well as the successful launch of Psychology Press in the USA. Alison joined SAGE in 2001 as Vice President and Editorial Director, and was appointed Executive Vice President in 2004. Alison is a regular speaker at industry meetings and is currently a member of the Scientific Publications Committee and the Open Science Committee of the American Heart Association. She has also served on the boards of Women in Publishing, the Society of Young Publishers, the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers, and was Co-chair of the Dean’s Leadership Council at California State University, Channel Islands.

Stefano Bertuzzi is a Chief Executive Officer at American Society for Microbiology and is based in Washington, District of Columbia. He has worked as Director, Office of Science Policy, Planning and Communications at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); Research Associate at Salk Institute; and Senior Scientific Executive at National Institutes of Health. Stefano studied at Johns Hopkins University between 2009 and 2011 and Università Cattolica between 1991 and 1995.