Caroline Sutton is CEO for the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Prior to joining STM Caroline served as Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis. She co-founded Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in Open Access Publishing and was one of the founders and first President of OASPA where she served on the board between 2008-2021. She has served on numerous boards within the scholarly communications space including the Board of Directors of Dryad (2017-2023), and Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), the managing organization of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (2013-2022). Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Kim Beadle is Director of Financial Administration and Facilities. She takes care of handling all internal governance including the administration of the STM offices and staff regulations including human resources and IT security and infrastructure. Kim handles the administration of the finances both receivable and payable and also coordinates the annual budget process. Membership activities include renewals, the processing of all member applications and coordinating the annual STM Board Member and Officer Elections.
Jackie Benoist joined STM in September 2022 part-time as Executive Assistant to Caroline Sutton, CEO.
In her role, Jackie supports Caroline by helping to administer and assist with the organization of key strategic projects within STM.
Before joining STM Jackie worked for almost two decades at Taylor & Francis an Informa UK business as part of the Executive team supporting the current and previous CEO.
She has had many years of publishing experience in various roles. Her publishing career began at Blackwell’s followed by 11 years at Heinemann and 3 years at Elsevier before joining Taylor & Francis.
Lucy Derges is Manager of Research and joined STM in December 2020. She coordinates research projects that deliver data analysis, resources and reports that inform STM’s work and stakeholders in our sector. She also monitors the industry for developments and gathers research to support global advocacy work. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Politics, two postgraduate certificates in International Affairs and a master’s degree in Publishing. She has previously worked as a Global Marketing Manager and spent ten years in the UK Civil Service as a Policy Analyst and Relationship Manager.
Jo Dinnage STM General Manager Events and Sponsorship joined STM in January 2008 as Events Manager. Responsible for event sponsorship and the organisation of STM events including seminars, courses, conferences, and webinars.
Jo negotiates with venues on meeting rooms, accommodation, audiovisual requirements, catering, reviews contracts, controls budgets, and liaises with guest speakers, moderators, sponsors, and delegates throughout the duration from the briefing stage to the actual event. More recently Jo has learnt the art of the Zoom conferencing tool enabling STM events to be held virtually where necessary. Jo prepares and manages the content of the event's web pages, coordinates promotional material, and provides onsite representation.
Leila Jones serves as STM's Chief Operating Officer — providing operational leadership and cross-functional coordination across STM. She plays a key role in driving progress on strategic programmes and ensuring the seamless execution of STM’s activities. Leila has been an integral part of STM as the Director of Strategic Programmes, where she facilitated the delivery of STM’s strategy by overseeing and coordinating projects across its core strategic pillars. With over 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, including editorial and operational roles at Taylor & Francis, Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and Wiley, Leila brings a wealth of expertise to her new role.
Hylke Koers is the Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, STM’s operational arm which develops and manages shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. He is responsible for the STM Integrity Hub and serves as program director for GetFTR and SeamlessAccess. Before joining STM, Hylke worked in several senior technology and product management roles, in both private and public sector organizations, supporting the research community. He has held leading roles in FAIRsFAIR, the Research Data Alliance and served on the EOSC Architecture Working Group. Hylke holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Amsterdam.
Mithu Lucraft is Director of Communications & Marketing. She brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and marketing across scholarly publishing, most recently as a senior consultant at TBI Communications advising academic publishers, research societies, and partner organisations. Before that, she held senior marketing roles at Springer Nature, as well as communications roles at SAGE Publications and Oxford University Press. Mithu brings deep expertise in multi-channel communications, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement, with a track record of building high-performing teams.
Claudia Russo is STM's Director, Public Affairs EU and Global Deputy Director, Public Affairs — leading public affairs initiatives across Europe and supporting STM’s global policy & advocacy strategy. Since joining STM in April 2020, Claudia has been instrumental in gathering political intelligence, crafting effective public affairs strategies, and building strong relationships with European institutions and stakeholders – making sure those align with and strengthen STM’s global presence. Her deep expertise in digital issues as well as a talent for translating policy into clear, actionable strategies have been vital to STM’s success in this area.
Molly Stech is STM’s General Legal Counsel. Previously, Molly worked for the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s copyright policy team. She has also been a consultant for WIPO and has been an adjunct professor of law at American University Washington College of Law and George Washington University Law School. She has written and published a variety of law review articles on both intellectual property and cultural property issues in American and European law journals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and completed a post-graduate legal fellowship in comparative copyright law at the University of Edinburgh.
Georgiana Svensmark-Baciu is Senior Manager, Public Affairs EU, based in Brussels. She brings a strong background in publishing, open science, and strategic communications, most recently at Elsevier where she led the global launch of AI products for researchers and coordinated marketing for ScienceDirect books and journals. In her role at STM, Georgiana supports EU policy engagement, working alongside Claudia Russo, Director, Public Affairs EU. She holds a Master's in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam and a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Manchester.
Julia Wallace comes to STM with three decades of experience in scholarly communications. Having been a publisher in the area of physical sciences as well as a consultant, her particular interest is in multistakeholder initiatives that benefit the scholarly ecosystem. Julia was previously Project Manager for the EU-funded PEER project (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) and Project Director of RA21: Resource Access in the 21st Century, and has been engaged by STM as Project Manager for the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI) since January 2021. Julia holds a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics and a postgraduate diploma in marketing.