UBIQUITY - Key Persons


Aaron McCollough

Job Titles:
  • Product Director ( Repositories )
Aaron is responsible for the product strategy and day-to-day service of the Ubiquity Repositories product, as well as managing the Repositories team. Aaron has an extensive background in libraries, university presses, and scholarly communication. Before joining Ubiquity in 2019, Aaron led publishing teams at George Mason University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. Aaron is based in Chattanooga, TN, USA.

Allegra Swift

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of California San Diego

Anita Jaswal-Sandhu

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources

Anne Borger

Job Titles:
  • Sales Manager

April Hathcock

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Director of Scholarly Communications & Information Policy, New York University

Brian Hole - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
With over 20 years of experience in publishing and technology, Brian leads on strategy, and oversees all other aspects of the business. An active researcher in the field of archaeology, he also has strong roots in the academic community. Previous roles included platform development at Elsevier and data publication at the British Library. A passionate advocate for Open Science and changing the culture of publishing, Brian speaks regularly at conferences and workshops on these topics. Brian is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Cristian Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer ( Python )

Danielle Tremeer

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Account Manager

Danuka Hettiarachchi

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer ( Ruby )

David de Roure

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Professor of E - Research, University of Oxford

David Prosser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Executive Director, Research Libraries UK

DeDe Dawson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Science & Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Saskatchewan

Esteban G. Gabancho

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer

Francesco de Virgilio - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CTO
Francesco manages the technical maintenance, development and expansion of the Ubiquity IT, helping the Tech Team to shape the future of the online publishing services. He has previously hold leading engineering positions in mission-critical real-time IT services at Pole Star Space Applications, providing anti-piracy satellite ship tracking services and FIXR, the UK leading university ticketing platform, where he has shaped a large part of the services and IT systems. As a former geologist, with a background in the "hard sciences" and archaeology, Francesco has decade-long involvement in the Open Source communities. He is based in London, UK.

Francesco Iacono

Job Titles:
  • Frontend Developer

Helen Porter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Partner Advisory Board
  • Research Support Manager, London School of Economics

Honor Dimond

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Coordinator

Imogen Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Head of Editorial Services

Inba Kehoe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Copyright Office and Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Victoria

Iryna Kuchma

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Open Access Programme Manager, EIFL

Ivy Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Director, Collection Development and Management, California Digital Library

Jack Towner

Job Titles:
  • Data Engineer

Jacob Collins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Developer ( Python )

Jacqueline Barlow

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Account Manager

Jason Priem

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Cofounder, Impactstory

Kilby Allen

Job Titles:
  • Repository Account Manager

Laura White - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
Laura is a qualified accountant and responsible for the control, analysis and reporting of the Company's finances. Laura joined Ubiquity following 11 years at Credit Suisse, working from the front to the back of the business, most recently within the Chief Operating Officer team. Prior to that, Laura was in the audit division of Deloitte and Touche, working with clients in the media sector. Laura is based in London, UK.

Lindsay Cronk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Head of Collection Strategies, University of Rochester

Megan Wacha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Scholarly Communications Librarian, City University of New York

Michael Higgs

Job Titles:
  • Senior Publishing Editor

Natalia Rola

Job Titles:
  • Sales Manager

Nirmala Menon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Partner Advisory Board
  • Assistant Professor and Head, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Paige MacKay

Job Titles:
  • Senior Publishing Editor

Patrick Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Account Manager

Peter Ford

Job Titles:
  • Product Delivery Manager

Peter Potter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Partner Advisory Board
  • Director, Publishing Strategy, Virginia Tech ( Board Chair )

Phylis Dugasse

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant

Pierre Mournier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Associate Director, OpenEdition and Coordinator, OPERAS

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Director of Digital Services and OER, Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative

Rees Morris

Job Titles:
  • Frontend Developer

Rob Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer ( PHP )

Rowan Hatherley


Salman Murad

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer ( PHP )

Sarah Melton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
  • Head of Digital Scholarship, Boston College

Sarah Payne

Job Titles:
  • Publishing Assistant

Simon Hodson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the General Advisory Board
  • Executive Director, CODATA

Sioux Cumming

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Account Manager

Tim Colebrook

Job Titles:
  • Senior Editorial Account Manager

Tim Wakeford

Job Titles:
  • Product Director ( Publishing Services & Partner Presses )
Tim runs the publishing services team and is responsible for supporting Ubiquity Press and all of the presses on the Ubiquity Partner Network publish journal and book content. Having joined Ubiquity Press in Spring 2013 from BioMed Central where he was Senior Production Editor and had worked for three and a half years he sets and coordinates the editorial policy and support for journals and book projects, ensuring adherence to publishing ethics guidelines. Tim is based in London, UK.

Tom Mowlam - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
Tom is responsible for publishing operations with a focus on production. He ensures the excellent quality of Ubiquity Press publications, as well as the efficiency of operations and high scalability of the platform. Previously he was Production Director at BioMed Central, where he worked for 12 years and was responsible for running their offshore operations. Tom is based in London, UK.

Wilhelm Widmark

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Partner Advisory Board
  • Library Director, Stockholm University Library