CLOCKSS Appoints New Executive Director

[Gordon Tibbitts <Gordon.Tibbitts@clockss.org>]

CLOCKSS Appoints New Executive Director

The CLOCKSS Archive (http://www.clockss.org) is pleased to 
announce the appointment of Randy S. Kiefer as their new 
Executive Director. Randy is the Principal Consultant in the 
Kiefer Strategy Group, LLC, which handles business development 
efforts for publishers like INFORMS, the American Accounting 
Association, the Military Operations Research Society, and 
others. From 1999 to May of 2010, Randy served in various roles 
at INFORMS. For his last three years, he was the Director of 
Subscription, Membership, and Technical Services at INFORMS, and 
his primary activity was developing the global library market for 
INFORMS' twelve journals.

Randy is a board member of COIN-OR (http://www.coin-or.org/)  , 
an organization dedicated to open-source software for the 
operations research community. and is on the board of two 
charitable organizations in the Baltimore area. Randy has been 
active in software development since 1985.

"I am delighted to welcome Randy as the new CLOCKSS Archive 
Executive Director. His deep experience working with publishers 
and libraries will ensure that the archive continues to serve our 
community's needs", said Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program.

Gordon Tibbitts, outgoing CLOCKSS executive director and 
President Atypon Systems declares, "The CLOCKSS Archive, now one 
year old is well placed for its' next phase of growth. The Board 
of Directors is very pleased to have Randy on board as the 
Archive's first full time Executive Director."

CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that 
preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term 
through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of 
archive nodes.

Gordon Tibbitts
Founding Executive Director
Gordon.Tibbitts@clockss.org
CLOCKSS - A Trusted Community Governed Archive [www.clockss.org]