The CLOCKSS Archive (http://www.clockss.org) is pleased to announce the appointment of Randy S. Kiefer as their new Executive Director. Randy is the Principal Consultant in the Kiefer Strategy Group, LLC, which handles business development efforts for publishers like INFORMS, the American Accounting Association, the Military Operations Research Society, and others. From 1999 to May of 2010, Randy served in various roles at INFORMS. For his last three years, he was the Director of Subscription, Membership, and Technical Services at INFORMS, and his primary activity was developing the global library market for INFORMS’ twelve journals.
Randy is a board member of COIN-OR (http://www.coin-or.org) , an organization dedicated to open-source software for the operations research community. and is on the board of two charitable organizations in the Baltimore area. Randy has been active in software development since 1985.
“I am delighted to welcome Randy as the new CLOCKSS Archive Executive Director. His deep experience working with publishers and libraries will ensure that the archive continues to serve our community’s needs”, said Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program.
Gordon Tibbitts, outgoing CLOCKSS executive director and President Atypon Systems declares, “The CLOCKSS Archive, now one year old is well placed for its’ next phase of growth. The Board of Directors is very pleased to have Randy on board as the Archive’s first full time Executive Director.”
CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of archive nodes.