Content in Context 2011

 

Michael Ross
Senior Vice President/Education General Manager
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Moderator & Panelist: Going Mobile: The Secrets Behind the Most Popular Education Apps
Wednesday, June 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Michael Ross is Senior Vice President/Education General Manager in charge of worldwide product development and technology and North American institutional sales and marketing for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Prior to joining Britannica in 2002, he held several executive positions in the educational publishing industry, including stints World Book, Inc.; McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; and NTC Publishing Group (now part of McGraw-Hill). He began his publishing career as an editor for Time-Life Books and worked in the Tokyo bureau for three years.

He has contributed to many industry publications and speaks frequently at international conferences on electronic publishing, strategic alliances, and licensing. He has written two books, Publishing without Borders: Strategies for Successful International Publishing (2003); and Publishing without Boundaries: How to Think, Work, and Win in the Global Marketplace (2007). An occasional blogger on Britannica.com, he serves as an adviser for “No Self Required,” a library blogging site.

Michael is a past-president of the board of directors of the Association of Educational Publishers and served on the AEP board for five years
He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. In October 2002 he was inducted into Printmedia’s Production Executives’ Hall of Fame, and in December of 2009 he was inducted into the AEP Hall of Fame, the educational publishing industry’s highest honor.

Michael has a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, an M.A. from Brandeis University, and a certificate from Stanford University’s Advanced Management College. He is married with three children.