Terri Alcazar
Terri Alcazar, a former educator, is director of curriculum marketing for Thomson
Gale. She brings nearly 25 years of experience working with school and library vendor
companies to her position. Alcazar began her career with Thomson Gale in 1999. Since
then she has worked with cross-functional product and technical teams to develop
highly acclaimed school products, such as Student Resource Center 2.0, Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center, Kids InfoBits, Science Resource Center and ClassTrac.
She also successfully launched www.galeschools.com, Thomson Gale’s Web site for
the K12 market, as well as many of Thomson Gale’s popular e-newsletters.
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Melissa Behrens
Melissa Behrens is a library relations and training specialist. Prior to joining
Thomson Gale, Behrens was a Web content librarian at General Motors-Infotrieve.
She also has been a librarian at Washington-Centerville Public Library (Centerville,
OH) and JSTOR (Ann Arbor, MI). She currently serves as the employment chair for
the Detroit chapter of the Special Libraries Association, and she is a member of
the American Library Association. Behrens holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature
from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in library and information
science from Wayne State University.
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Jennifer Bernardelli
Product Manager Jennifer Bernardelli is responsible for the new product development
and life cycle management of Thomson Gale's business, health and general reference
products. Bernardelli has 15 years of industry experience, including experience
in sales and product management with NewsBank, Inc.
Jennifer Bernardelli is presenting: Business & Company Resource Center and BizInfo
Online events.
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Tracy Bush
Marketing Strategist Tracy Bush is responsible for cross-market and cross-product
promotions, including catalogs, trade show marketing, online sales, online marketing,
advertising, sponsorships and consortia support. In addition to 18 years of marketing
experience, Bush has managed the marketing for key business areas for Borders Group,
including pop/rock, country, easy listening, video and Web promotions. Bush also
created and managed co-op marketing campaigns for major artist and movie releases.
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Marc Cormier
Marc Cormier joined Thomson Gale in 1994 and has created, marketed and sold Thomson
Gale products since that time. In 2002, as International Channel Manager, Cormier
created Thomson Gale's first regional international product, InfoTrac Australia/New
Zealand. He also has launched a number of critically acclaimed reference sources
such as Gothic Literature: A Critical Companion and the Schirmer Encyclopedia of
Film. Currently, he manages LitFinder, What Do I Read Next?, Book Review Index,
and a host of print programs including Thomson Gale's flagship literature print
collection, the Literature Criticism Series--soon to be an online archive.
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Scott Dawson
Product Manager Scott Dawson is responsible for developing new and supporting existing
Gale Digital Collections, including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Times
Digital Archive, The Making of the Modern World and American History & Culture
Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. Prior to his current position, Dawson
served as product manager and development team leader for a software development
firm, and as a marketing/product manager at a leading financial services content
provider.
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Julia Furtaw
Product Manager Julia Furtaw joined Thomson Gale in 1988. Furtaw has been developing
new products since the mid-1990s, including the critically acclaimed VideoHound
print and CD line for Thomson Gale’s former trade imprint, Visible Ink Press. Since
joining the K12 team in 1999, Julia has developed a number of successful titles,
including U*X*L American Decades; Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for
Students; Bowling, Beatniks and Bell-Bottoms; Fashion, Costume and Culture; Grzimek's
Student Animal Life Resource; and the forthcoming Alternative Energy, Chemical
Compounds and Graphic Novelists sets from U*X*L. Julia
launched Thomson Gale’s first elementary resource center, Kids InfoBits,
in 2003 and currently serves as product manager responsible for Science Resource
Center, which launched in 2004.
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Matthew Hong
Matthew Hong is Thomson Gale's vice president and general manager of open Web markets.
In this role, Hong is responsible for overseeing and expanding Thomson Gale's portfolio
of open Web properties, which today includes AccessMyLibrary and Goliath,
as well as managing and expanding the company's network of open Web partners, which
includes Amazon, LookSmart, Microsoft and others. Prior to joining Thomson Gale,
Hong served as executive director of search for AOL, where he spent six years in
a variety of general management and business development roles. Hong also is an
attorney who has represented clients in mergers and acquisitions.
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Eric Hoss
Eric Hoss is the Product Manager for Gale Virtual Reference Library and InfoTrac/Thomson
Gale PowerSearch. In this role, Hoss supports many key activities for these
products, including content selection, technology management, and sale and marketing
efforts. He joined Thomson Gale in February 2000 and has held many roles within
the organization, including positions in the editorial area where he managed various
print products, as well as more technically oriented roles, supporting Gale's MARC
record programs and the internal Integrated Library System. Hoss holds a Bachelor's
degree in English Literature from Wayne State University.
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Sheri Hunter
Marketing Strategist Sheri Hunter is responsible for marketing Thomson Gale's digital
collections and digital archives, PSM/SR film collections, history and social science
collections. Prior to this position, Hunter spent two years as a Thomson Gale public
sales account manager, bringing with her 14 years of sales and marketing experience.
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Mary Mercatante
Mary Mercatante is Thomson Gale's vice president of marketing. In this role, Mercatante
is responsible for strategic planning for marketing and brand awareness for the
company. Mercatante has held positions of increasing responsibility with Thomson
Gale for nearly 10 years. She has served as director of marketing for public and
academic markets and has played key roles in the launch of several of the company's
major electronic products, including the company’s acclaimed Resource Centers and,
Eighteenth Century Collections Online. As a tireless supporter for libraries’
role as the information providers to America, Mercatante is also credited with energizing
Thomson Gale’s commitment to library advocacy. She is a frequent speaker on the
topic of marketing techniques for libraries. Prior to joining the company, Mercatante
was a senior project manager at Bureau of Business Practice, a division of Simon
& Schuster. In addition to managing the Michigan field sales office, she developed
marketing and sales strategies for health and wellness training products for the
corporate and consumer markets. Before Bureau of Business Practice, she worked in
marketing for a variety of healthcare firms.
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Kate Millson
Associate Product Manager Kate Millson joined Thomson Gale in 2000. In this role,
Millson oversees Thomson Gale's health products aimed at the academic and public
markets. She also served as an editor for Macmillan Reference USA, one of Thomson
Gale's imprints, from 2000 to 2004.
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Carol Nagel
Product Manager Carol Nagel conceptualizes and launches new electronic and print
reference products for the school market. She is responsible for Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center, Web Feet, and the Worldmark product line as well
as all high school social studies print titles. After joining Thomson Gale in 1987,
Nagel became the founding editor of U*X*L, the company's award-winning imprint
that publishes print and online references for Middle and High School students.
Nagel has edited more than 30 print sets and electronic products, including U*X*L's
Science CD and Artists: From Michelangelo to Maya Lin.
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Chris Nasso
Chris Nasso is publisher of Thomson Gale imprints Greenhaven Press, Lucent Books,
Kidhaven Press and Blackbirch Press. She previously served as director of Product
Management, where she conceptualized, researched, secured resources and managed
the creation of new print and electronic reference products for academic and public
libraries in the areas of biography, social science, genealogy and fine arts. She
also managed existing electronic and print product lines. She has held various roles
within Thomson Gale and has created more than 40 biographical and literary reference
titles in the editorial department, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of
Literary Biography. Nasso also created print and electronic products for
school, academic and public libraries in the areas of literature, biography, social
science and the arts. While with Thomson Gale, Nasso has been associated with many
award-winning products, including American Decades, DISCovering Program (curriculum-related
references for the K12 market), Notable Black Women and Literature Resource
Center Online. She also assisted in the acquisition of some of Thomson Gale's
most notable imprints, including Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's
Sons®, Greenhaven Press® and Lucent Books®.
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Mary Onorato
As product manager for academic and public library markets, Mary Onorato develops
and maintains products in the areas of literature, performing arts and humanities.
She currently oversees the Literature Resource Center, Modern Language Association
International Bibliography and the Shakespeare Collection. In addition
to more than 15 years of experience in reference publishing, Onorato has also been
a systems analyst, an editor, a translator and an adjunct English professor.
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Nader Qaimari
As director of InfoTrac and Thomson Gale PowerSearch, Nader Qaimari
manages Thomson Gale's InfoTrac line of products, as well as Thomson Gale's newest
online platform, Thomson Gale PowerSearch. In this role, Qaimari is responsible
for content selection, technology, sales and marketing efforts for these products.
Qaimari began his career at Thomson Gale as a print editor. He has been an editor
for InfoTrac products and has held positions in K12 product management and
curriculum product management.
Nader Qaimari is presenting: Thomson Gale PowerSearch, How to Build a Custom
Collection, How to Use InfoMarks, Access My Library, InfoTrac
for Public Libraries, InfoTrac for Academic Libraries, and InfoTrac
for Schools online events.
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Gerry Sawchuk
Distributed eProducts Manager Gerry Sawchuk joined Thomson Gale in 2004. In this
role, Sawchuk oversees Thomson Gale's electronic distributed products program securing
database content products from publishers and content providers not directly affiliated
with Thomson Gale. reference print and electronic products. In addition to more
than 20 years of marketing and product management experience, Sawchuk was co-founder
of a telecom software company and has served in executive positions with technology-focused
companies. Sawchuk also instructs graduate and undergraduate business classes for
the University of Phoenix.
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Lisa Spicko
Lisa Spicko is Thomson Gale's vice president of the K12 market. In this role, Spicko
is responsible for the strategic and tactical market planning involved in delivering
Thomson Gale products and services to the K12 educational market. In addition to
14 years of information industry experience, Spicko has held various roles within
Thomson Gale, including product development, launch and training; market segmentation,
research and growth; marketing communications strategy; strategic planning and project
management.
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Erin Sullivan
Product Manager Erin Sullivan joined Gale in 1999. Prior to her current role, Sullivan
served as a print sales representative for Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of
Thomson Gale, and as a K12 electronic sales account manager. As product manager,
Sullivan is responsible for continuing to develop the U*X*L History Reference Libraries
and many of the U*X*L print products, as well as managing Kids InfoBits,
Thomson Gale's first elementary resource center.
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Janet Witalec
As product manager for the K12 market, Janet Witalec oversees the Student Resource
Center family of online databases, including the Discovering Collection
and the Junior Reference Collection. She also is responsible for developing
new biography, general reference, health, and science print and eBook products.
Prior to her current role, Witalec served in Thomson Gale's editorial department,
where she was responsible for titles including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century
Literary Criticism, Gale Critical Companions, Native North American Literature,
Discovering Authors, World of Forensic Science and Real-Life Math.
She has been a teacher and the managing editor of Wayne State University Press.
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