Prof. Daniel E. Atkins:
Daniel E. Atkins is a Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor. 
He has served as Dean of the College of Engineering and more recently as the founding Dean of the new School of Information (http://www.si.umich.edu) at UM. He is now Director of the Alliance for Community Technology (http://www.communitytechnology.org, a partnership with philanthropy to conduct research and development relevant to use of information and communication technology (ICT) to further the mission of the non-profit, particularly community-serving, organizations. Dr. Atkins does research and teaching in the area of knowledge environments built upon ICT-based infrastructure, also known as cyberinfrastructure. He has been the project director of several large experimental digital library projects as well as projects to explore the application of “collaboratories” to scientific research. He has recently served as Chair of the U.S. National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. The Panel will issue a report in February 2003 recommending a major Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Initiative intended to revolutionize science and engineering research and education. He also serves regularly on panels of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine exploring issues such as scholarship in the digital age, the future of scholarly communication, and the impact of information technology on the future of higher education. He is co-author of a recent book entitled "Higher Education in the Digital Age: Technology Issues and Strategies for American Colleges and Universities." For more information, see also his personal homepage at http://intel.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/si/courses/people/faculty-detail.cfm?passID=2.
Lynne Brindley:
Lynne Brindley is the Chief Executive of The British Library. 
She came to the BL from the University of Leeds where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications & IT and University Librarian. She held previous positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, Principal Consultant at KPMG, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Director of Information Services at Aston University. She spent the early part of her career at the British Library. She chairs the UK Digital Preservation Coalition and Cobra, the CENL group for digital projects in European national libraries. She is a member of the Research Support Libraries Group (RSLG), a member of the Executive committee of the National Museums Directors Conference (NMDC) and is a Board member of the re:source steering group on libraries and their contribution to UK social and economic development. She is a member of the EPSRC/User Panel. She is on the Library of Congress Advisory Board for the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Programme (NDIIPP) and on the Advisory Council to the Stanford University Library/Academic Information Resources. She is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and City University. Her research and professional interests are in knowledge management and digital preservation.
Mel Collier:
Mel Collier is Director of the University Library at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. 
As a library director with a lifelong involvement in innovation he was attracted to Tilburg because it is very well known for its innovation in information services and its excellent ICT infrastructure. He is also Research Professor at the University of Northumbria, and a consultant specialising in digital libraries, electronic information markets and information strategies in higher education. Formerly he was Director of Strategic and Operational Planning at Dawson Holdings PLC, one of the largest distributors of information products to libraries world-wide. Prior to that he was Head of Division of Learning Development at De Montfort University, U.K., responsible for libraries, information technology and educational development. His previous career was in academic libraries in universities and polytechnics. He has a degree in Arabic, good French, a working knowledge of German and is now rapidly learning Dutch! Since the early seventies he has been active in research into the library applications of information technology, culminating in the foundation of the International Institute for Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University. He has directed several major national and European research projects. He has written and collaborated in numerous research reports, edited works and journal articles. He has served on a number of professional, national and international bodies including membership of the Library and Information Commission, the UK Government's advisory body for library and information matters, and chairmanship of its research committee. He was also chairman of the Library and Information Advisory Committee of the British Council.
Hans Geleijnse:
In June 2003, Hans Geleijnse was appointed as Director IT Services and Chief Information Officer at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. 
He will be mainly involved in strategic IT issues. Before that and since November 2000, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Hans was University Librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years before November 2000. He was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national, and international initiatives with respect to electronic publishing, including the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), consortia negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on self-publishing. In Italy, he was engaged in the development of national initiatives by the various existing library consortia. Hans is Vice-President of LIBER, the League of research libraries in Europe. He is also a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the board of Ticer. He was involved in various European digital library projects. He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, strategic planning, change management, and electronic publishing.
Arie Jongejan:
Arie Jongejan is CEO of the Science &
Technology Division within Elsevier. 
He is originally trained as mathematician, graduating from University of Amsterdam in 1977. After a couple of years of research and teaching at university level he moved into publishing in 1981, starting with North-Holland Publishing Company (then an Elsevier Science daughter company). Since then he held many positions in different parts of the company, starting in editorial and moving via acquisitions into managerial positions. In 1998, he became member of the Board of Elsevier, first responsible for the Physical Sciences programme, later for the entire spectrum of Science publishing. His current responsibilities include all publishing, marketing and sales functions, both for the 'traditional' journal and book business as well as for its electronic counterpart, hence ranges from ScienceDirect to MDL, from Engineering Information to Embase, from publications like Tetrahedron to Brain Research. Arie has been closely involved in the initial stages of the set-up of what now is the largest scientific articles database and platform, Science Direct. He takes a keen interest in, and shares responsibility for, the migration of business models and publishing paradigms, from the 'paper' days into the electronic age. Areas of attention include development of market-facing information solutions, disclosure and archival solutions for libraries, development of authoring, submission and editorial tools, copyright implications, and in general, adaptation of the industry to a constantly changing business environment.
Rick Luce:
Richard Luce is the Research Library (http://lib-www.lanl.gov/) Director at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (http://www.lanl.gov/). 
Known as both an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, his organization was the co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award (http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-031.html) from the Library of Congress, and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence. Los Alamos appointed Rick as the Project Leader of the Library Without Walls (http://lib-www.lanl.gov/lww/welcome.html) digital library program in 1994. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library program to deliver large-scale science databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). Rick received a 1996 Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos for his contributions supporting science and technology. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and digital publishing, as well as being a well-known international speaker. In 1999 he co-founded the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor to the Max Planck Society, a member of the Executive Boards of the National Information Standards Organization, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovations Program. He was a founding board member of the New Mexico Library Alliance, the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information, and former chair of the New Mexico State Library Advisory Council. Prior to his appointment at Los Alamos in 1991, Rick held positions as Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and Assistant Director of the Boulder Public Library. He speaks extensively in the areas of Digital Libraries, Quality and Change Management, Strategic Planning and Electronic Publishing.
Clifford Lynch:
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. 
CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits," and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration. See for more information Clifford's personal homepage at http://www.cni.org/staff/clifford_index.html.
Eugenie Prime:
From the Internet’s foray into Corporate America to a major company split, Eugenie Prime has led Hewlett-Packard’s Corporate Libraries through a sea of change for more than a decade now. 
It should be noted though that the employees of Hewlett-Packard aren’t the only population who have benefited from her leadership. The first recipient of the Dow Jones Leadership award, Prime is a much sought after speaker. She has been an invited lecturer and presenter at conferences that include Online, ASIS, ASIDIC, and SLA. She has traveled across North America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa speaking extensively in the areas of Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management. Noted for her slightly outrageous sense of humor, Prime has an ability to express substantive issues and ideas with simplicity and wit. These character traits aren’t bound to the space behind a speaker’s podium either. Prime’s work in creating a system for labeling and cataloging information online took her in front of the camera as the feature of a Hewlett-Packard advertisement stating, "What the Internet Needs is an Old Fashioned Librarian," Prime is anything but. Prime is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, the Library Advisory Board of John Wiley (Publisher) and the Advisory Board of Consumer Webwatch. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, she headed a large hospital library while simultaneously serving as president of CINAHL Corporation, database producers and publishers of the Nursing and Allied Health Index. She has a B.A. in world history and sociology from the University of the West Indies; her master’s in history from Andrews University, and M.S. from Drexel University; and an M.B.A. from UCLA.
Jan Wilkinson:
Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and has spent fourteen years as a senior manager in eight different posts. 
She is currently University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where she was previously Director of Library Services. In this time, she has been responsible for the leadership and development of the University Library, with a particular emphasis on human resource management and the direction of organisational change. From 9/96 to 8/98, she was Deputy Librarian at the London School of Economics (LSE), where, as a senior manager, she was involved in strategic planning and policy making for this international research library for the social sciences. At this time, she also became a leader in the UK for library fundraising and has published in this area. Her previous senior posts were the following: 1/93 - 7/96 Sub-Librarian, LSE; 11/90 - 12/92 Sub-Librarian, University of Hertfordshire; 11/98 - 10/90 Librarian, Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) and has been involved in library developments at a national level for a number of years. She has undertaken consultancies for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Research Libraries Support programme (RSLP) of the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE), as well as for other UK universities.
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