SSP Innovation Showcase (Winter2025)

A special complimentary webinar highlighting new and exciting industry innovations. Speakers representing innovative companies will present brief presentations on solutions and technology. This is a unique opportunity to get a glimpse of the latest developments in the industry.

David Myers – Is a serial entrepreneur and a recurring-revenue, licensing and B2B information expert. With over 30 years experience specializing in Strategy, Sales, Legal, Licensing and Business Development, he has drafted, negotiated and closed over 500 domestic and international licensing agreements with partners, customers and distributors. He has also negotiated and closed countless business alliances, strategic partnering, and revenue generation deals. Prior to starting his consulting practice, he was Executive Director, Global Licensing and Business Development with Wolters Kluwer Health for 7 years.

Kristin McNealy has worked in academic publishing for nearly 15 years, following a career in neuroscience research. She has been responsible for building system capabilities to drive growth in open access publishing and streamline journal operations. As Vice President of product management at Wiley, she is focused on delivering a best-in-class journal publishing platform that serves authors, editors, reviewers, production colleagues, and other publishers.

Oleg is an active scientist with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. Currently, he holds a professor position at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads a group focused on particle physics and artificial intelligence in physics. As an entrepreneur, Oleg is the co-founder of Prophy—a scientific knowledge management company with the ambition to revolutionize scholarly publishing. As Prophy's CEO, he strives to empower researchers worldwide. Oleg's visionary leadership and scientific expertise shape Prophy's mission to transform peer review, making it more efficient, transparent, and collaborative. With a passion for driving positive change in academia, Oleg's unique blend of expertise and innovation is driving Prophy’s mission to reshape the future of scholarly communication.

Oleg Ruchayskiy is the CEO of Prophy, leading the company's mission to transform academic publishing through AI-powered solutions. Oleg combines deep technical expertise with a vision for making scientific collaboration more efficient.

Sarah Arbuthnot is the Commercial & Partnerships Director at Supadu. Sarah has worked for the company since it started in 2010 across customer services and business development. Her interests and experience are focused on consumer behaviour and specifically how consumers behave in the digital world with regards to what they buy and how they shop.

Simon has worked with a number of start-ups in the scholarly information space for over twenty years (including CatchWord, Renew Publishing Consultants and Accucoms) and in a consultancy and service provider role has nearly thirty years’ experience in meeting the needs of the world’s scholarly societies, both large and small, in North America, Europe and Japan.

Tyler is Director, Publisher Solutions at Digital Science. Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of data-focused products. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, and has been working with scholarly, trade, and education publishers for more than twenty years. Over these two decades, Tyler has held leadership and technology roles at RR Donnelley, LibreDigital, Ingram Content Group, and OCLC.