Just learned that Annie Callanan, currently Bowker President and CEO, has been named ProQuest Chief Operating Officer. In her new role, Ms. Callanan will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn and will manage the day-to-day operations for ProQuest’s publishing, marketing, customer care, and content operations. She will also continue to have overall responsibility for Bowker. “Annie is an energetic and effective leader with an extraordinary track-record of success, and I’m delighted to have her join our team,” said Mr. Kahn. “ProQuest and Bowker share similar goals and challenges in redefining information discovery. This important step benefits both companies by combining talent within these two growing, innovative organizations.” While the management structures will align at ProQuest and Bowker, the companies’ customer-facing operations and product initiatives will continue uninterrupted. Since coming to Bowker as President and CEO in 2006, Annie Callanan has successfully advanced the development, marketing, and distribution of information technology solutions to libraries, publishers, and educators. During her three years with Bowker she expanded the company’s services, acquired Medialab — developer of Aquabrowser — and more recently, integrated LibraryThing into the Bowker product mix. Before joining Bowker, Ms. Callanan was executive vice president of Advanstar Communications’ Life Sciences Group, a healthcare publisher known for leading clinical and industry journals, professional conferences, continuing education and Web services. Earlier, she was senior vice president of CMP Media, where she was responsible for the operations of such well-known media brands as Information Week and Network Computing magazines and the PC EXPO trade show. She also previously oversaw the publishing, trade show and electronic publishing divisions for Miller Freeman, where she marketed information technology to businesses in the education and financial services sectors. Ms. Callanan holds BA and BFA degrees in English and art history from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MBA in finance from New York University.
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