Darrell is a digital publishing executive with 30+ years in scholarly and financial publishing with a specialty in semantic technology and search. In 1996 at Elsevier he launched their first sales, marketing and customer service operation for the Americas region that comprised over 1,000 universities, government institutions and corporations. He was responsible for the launch of ScienceDirect, Scopus and a host of specialty digital products.
At Collexis as the EVP / CMO he was responsible for the launch of BiomedExperts.com the world’s first pre-populated expert network of 1.4 million life science researchers. He also launched UniPhy.org for the American Institute of Physics, an expert network that profiled over 180,000 physicists.
He has established a successful track record in scoping, building and launching expert networks and semantic technology.