Chris Beckett

Current

• Vice President - Business Development at Atypon

Past

• Director at Scholarly Information Strategies
• Vice President Library Relations at Ingenta
• Vice President Sales - International Publishers at Ingenta

• Sales & Marketing Director at CatchWord
• Manager at Blackwell's Online Bookshop
• Business Development Manager at Blackwell Information Services
• Sales Representative at BH Blackwell Ltd

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Education

• The University of Sheffield
• The University of Sheffield

Recommended

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Connections

363 connections

Industry

Publishing

Chris Beckett’s Summary

Experienced Strategic Business Development Manager

Co-founded Scholarly Information Strategies (SIS) in 2002 to help publishers, intermediaries and libraries develop and deliver electronic products and services. Specialising in:

Electronic Journals Consultancy
Electronic Content Services
The application of Web2.0 technologies to business
Business Development especially the Marketing and Sales of Electronic Content.

Prior to SIS held senior Sales, Marketing and Product Development positions at Ingenta, CatchWord and Blackwell Information Services; including Vice-President Library Services for Ingenta, International Publisher Sales Director for Ingenta, and Sales and Marketing Director of CatchWord. Prior to CatchWord, I held a number of senior management positions at Blackwell's Information Services including General Manager of Blackwell's Online Bookshop, which I initiated and oversaw and was a member of Blackwell Information Services Executive Board.

Chris Beckett’s Specialties:

Strategic Sales, Marketing & Electronic Product Development for the scholarly market.
My particular interest is in unjamming the jammed, bringing fresh thinking to persistent problems. I have extensive experience and connections in the UK and North American Library and Scholarly Publishing market place.

Chris Beckett’s Experience

• Vice President - Business Development

  Atypon

  (Publishing industry)

  February 2007 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Managing all Sales & Marketing activities of a technology services company focussed on the provision of content management, deployment and distribution services to the publishing industry

• Director

  Scholarly Information Strategies

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  September 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 5 months)

• Vice President Library Relations

  Ingenta

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IGA; Publishing industry)

  January 2002 — September 2002 (9 months)

• Vice President Sales - International Publishers

  Ingenta

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IGA; Publishing industry)

  February 2001 — January 2002 (1 year )

• Sales & Marketing Director

  CatchWord

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  August 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 7 months)

• Manager

  Blackwell's Online Bookshop

  (Publishing industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

• Business Development Manager

  Blackwell Information Services

  (Publishing industry)

  June 1987 — September 1996 (9 years 4 months)

• Sales Representative

  BH Blackwell Ltd

  (Publishing industry)

  1985 — 1987 (2 years )

Chris Beckett’s Education

• The University of Sheffield

  MA , Information Studies , 1978 — 1979

• The University of Sheffield

  BA , Political Theory & Institutions , 1970 — 1973

Additional Information

Chris Beckett’s Interests:

* career opportunities * new ventures * job inquiries * expertise requests * business deals * reference requests * getting back in touch

Chris Beckett’s Groups:

ALPSP, UKSG, SSP, NASIG,, Fiesole Conference, Charleston Conference

•    Online Publishers Network
•    Publishers & Book sellers association
•    Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) - Members Group
•    University of Sheffield Alumni
•    UKSG: Connecting the Information Community
•    Publishing Executive Network
•    North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)
•    STM Publishing Group™
•    The MAPP: Marketing in Academic and Professional Publishing
•    Connected Oxford

Chris Beckett’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch