Staff

Eileen Fenton oversees ITHAKA’s technology services and content management units and is also Managing Director of Portico. She has led Portico since its founding as a new initiative in 2002. Since that time, thousands of e-journals and e-books have been preserved, and 77 libraries and more than 80 publishers representing over 2780 scholarly associations have committed to supporting their long-term preservation.

Previously Eileen was Director of Production for JSTOR, another service of ITHAKA, where she oversaw the addition of more than thirteen million pages to the archival collections. She has also worked in various positions at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries. Eileen is a librarian and earned her Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.

Eileen is a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Society of American Archivists, and American Library Association, and served on the advisory board for the LIFE Project. She regularly speaks at industry events and has authored numerous articles and presentations on digital preservation.

Bruce Heterick is VP, Outreach & Participation Services and has responsibility for outreach and access services on a global basis for Portico.

Bruce has spent over twenty years in the higher education and library communities. He was an application developer at Virginia Tech before joining VTLS in 1988. Bruce held senior management positions at The Faxon Company and Blackwells, and prior to joining JSTOR in 1999, was executive director of SunGard SCT’s higher education consulting practice.

Bruce has written and presented extensively on information management issues, and is active in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), EDUCAUSE, and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), where he is currently serving on the Board of Directors.

He holds a B.S. in Management from Virginia Tech, and a M.B.A. from the Pamplin School at Virginia Tech.

Ken DiFiore is an Associate Director on the Outreach & Participation Services team. Since 2005, Ken has led the global outreach program for Portico’s digital preservation service. In this role, he conducts outreach and educational programs to the library community. Ken has been a library professional for more than twenty years. A former chemistry librarian, he spent the last ten years in the vendor community promoting innovative software products to academic and special libraries. He holds an MLS degree from Rutgers University and MS in chemistry from Binghamton University.

Toni Tracy is Director of Publisher Relations for Portico and is responsible for working with the scholarly publishing community to facilitate their participation in Portico.

Prior to joining Portico in 2005, Toni spent twenty-five years in medical publishing in senior level positions at Williams & Wilkins (now part of Wolters Kluwer Health) and Churchill Livingstone (now part of Elseiver) as well as leading an online medical education program at Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals.

Toni holds a bachelors degree from Marywood University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Executive Program.

Amy J. Kirchhoff has been the Archive Service Product Manager for Portico since 2006. She is responsible for creation and execution of archival policy and oversees operation and development of the Portico website. Prior to her work at Portico, Amy was director of technology for JSTOR and also served as a member of the shared software development group at ITHAKA. She has published articles on Portico’s preservation methodology and policies in several publications including most recently Learned Publishing and The Serials Librarian.

Evan Owens is VP, Content Management where he oversees all aspects of content management, tool and system development, and maintenance for Portico. Prior to his work with Portico, he worked for many years at the University of Chicago Press where he was responsible for the design and implementation of electronic publishing systems, including web peer review, electronic editing, SGML-based typesetting, and online e-journal publishing.

He has been active in the publishing technology community representing Chicago on the CrossRef board, participating in the CrossRef technical working group, as US representative to ISO 12083, and by giving presentations on SGML, XML and content management in a variety of different forums including AAP/PSP, SSP, AAUP, and the Seybold Conferences. In the preservation community, he was a member of the PREMIS working group and has spoken at IS&T, NDIIPP, and numerous other conferences. He currently serves on the advisory panel for the National Library of Medicine E-Journal DTD, the NISO/ALPSP Journal Article Versions working group, the Project Transfer Advisory Panel, and the NISO Standards Architecture Committee.

Catherin “Camie” Anico serves as the Director of Operations for Portico. She and her team are responsible for creating tools for and executing the ingestion of e-journal and e-book content into Portico after it is received from participating content providers. Camie began her work with Portico in 2007, coming from LexisNexis Matthew Bender where she worked in Publishing Operations for over fifteen years. At LexisNexis she led a team responsible for print and electronic production and oversaw the content conversion from proprietary mark up, to SGML and then to XML.