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Matthew Cockerill, Publisher

Matt has overall responsibility for all aspects of Science Navigation Groups' publishing activity, including PhysMath Central and BioMed Central. He has been involved with BioMed Central since its launch in 1999, serving first as Technical Director and later as Director of Operations. Prior to BioMed Central, he played a major role in the creation of BioMedNet, a pioneering web site for biologists which incorporated the Trends and the Current Opinion review journals. He has a PhD in Biochemistry, which he obtained working under the guidance of Tim Hunt at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He also has a long-standing interest in the use of technology to structure and manage biological and medical knowledge.

Chris Leonard, Associate Publisher

Chris has worked in scientific publishing since 1997 when he joined ChemWeb.com and later went on to work for Elsevier in Amsterdam with responsibility at various times for physics, mathematics and computer science journals. In 2006 he returned to the UK to join BioMed Central and help develop PhysMath Central.

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Martin Gladdish, Head of Development

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Tim Hyde Smith, IT Director

Tim is responsible for the IT infrastructure and services that run BioMed Central's in house systems and public websites.

Tom Mowlam, Production Director

Tom runs BioMed Central's production team, which is responsible for processing manuscripts from acceptance to final publication.

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Vitek Tracz, Chairman

Vitek is the Chairman of the Science Navigation Group, of which BioMed Central is a member company.

Anne Greenwood, Group Managing Director

Anne's main responsibilities include overseeing the activities of each of the Science Navigation Group companies; directing the activities of Current Controlled Trials, which offers trial registration and hosting services; and directing the creation of Faculty of 1000 Medicine, the new literature evaluation service based on the highly successful format of Faculty of 1000 Biology. She has worked with Vitek since 1983, launching and publishing a range of websites, books, pharmaceutical sponsored publications and journals (such as the "Current Opinion" series).

Andrew Crompton, Chief Operating Officer and Legal Director

Andrew is responsible for all operational and legal matters for Science Navigation Group and is the Chairman's deputy. A lawyer by training, Andrew first joined what was then the Current Science Group in 1996 as Business Development Director. He left to become Legal and Business Development Director for the Macmillan Group in 1998 before returning to the Current Science Group in January 2003.

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