Candidates for Purdue University Press director position to give presentations
March 4, 2015
Faculty and staff are invited to attend two candidate presentations this week for the position of director of Purdue University Press and head of Scholarly Publishing Services.
* The first presentation will be at 1 p.m. today (March 4) in Stewart Center, Room 310, and a reception will follow. The presentation will feature Carol Anne Meyer, head of business development and marketing for CrossRef, a position she has held since 2008.
In this role, Meyer developed and managed the execution of primarily digital strategic marketing and business development plans, increasing voting members from 650 to 2,200, participating publishers from 1,900 to 5,700, CrossRef digital object identifiers (DOIs) from 33 million to 68 million, and international participation in 81 countries. Before joining CrossRef, Meyer held several leadership roles in publishing, including at Maxwell Publishing Consultants, Swets & Zeitlinger, SilverPlatter Information, Little, Brown & Co., the Association for Computing Machinery, and Random House.
Meyer received an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She is active in the Society for Scholarly Publishing, serving as its president in 2012-13; the Book Industry Study Group; and other service organizations.
* The second presentation will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 5) in Stewart Center, Room 214AB, and a reception will follow. The presentation will feature Peter Froehlich, subsidiary rights manager for Indiana University Press, a position he has held since 2010.
In this role, Froehlich has built a foreign rights sales program and rights catalog, increased the active intern workforce for the Press by more than 400 percent, expanded the active agent network by 40 percent and increased translation revenue permissions. He joined IU Press in 2008 as journals publishing assistant and was promoted to assistant sponsoring editor, where he was responsible for innovations in project tracking and assisting acquisitions editors with international titles, and signed a new journal for IU Press, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review. Earlier, he held positions of freelance editor, screenwriter and vice president for new business development for California firms.
Froehlich received an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a BA in comparative literature from University of California, Berkeley. He is active in the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the Association of American University Presses.
