Chris Shillum

Biography

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development in scholarly communications, Chris helps industry groups formulate product and technology strategy in a time of rapidly changing business models, new technology, and increasing expectations from users and customers. Chris has played a significant role in many collaborative infrastructure projects and is a strong believer in the power of community-wide collaboration to solve tough problems and drive progress. He was a co-author of the original paper which led to the use of DOIs for reference linking, going on to spend 20 years working with </span><a href="https://www.crossref.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crossref</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, including 10 years as a board member. He was a founder member of the </span><a href="https://www.orcid.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ORCID</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> board, helping that organization grow from start-up to become a sustainable part of the scholarly infrastructure landscape before later joining as their second ever Executive Director. He was part of the committee which oversaw the </span><a href="https://www.niso.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NISO</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">/NFAIS integration, and he continues to serve on the NISO Board. Chris holds a Masters in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York in the UK.</span></p>