BioMed Central's in-house team

BioMed Central management team

Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director

Matt has overall responsibility for all aspects of BioMed Central and Chemistry Central’s activities. 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 website for biologists which incorporated both the Trends and Current Opinon 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.

Bryan Vickery, Chief Operating Officer

Bryan is responsible for Operations including author services, all aspects of the production of articles once they are accepted for publication, special projects such as journal supplements as well as project management. Bryan has a background in Chemistry, and in the late 1990s worked at Current Science Group (now called Science Navigation Group) on the ChemWeb.com portal (sister to BioMed Net), which he went on to run after it was acquired by Elsevier. He also has experience in running preprint servers and A&I databases, and was MD at Elsevier Advanced Technology (EAT) publishing a range of magazines, newsletters, company profiles and conferences.

Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director

Deborah is responsible for leading the publishing teams to provide an excellent experience for our authors, editors and referees, and for ensuring that BioMed Central continues to grow its portfolio of open access journals. Deborah's career has spanned STM journal and book publishing, database publishing, and research and consultancy. She has been a supporter of open access since the beginning. A mathematician by training, she also has a Masters degree in Organisational Behaviour and a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy.

Bev Acreman, Commercial Director

Bev leads BioMed Central's commercial team including Sales, Marketing, Customer Services and PR/Events, all of which aim to maximise exposure for open access publishing. Bev's career in STM publishing started in an engineering research organisation; she then worked for Elsevier and later moved on to Taylor & Francis. She is active within UKSG, STM and a new mentoring and best practice network, the MAPP (marketing in academic and professional publishing) as Customer Service Correspondent.