Brigitte Shull joins Gold Leaf

The research publishing and library services consulting firm Gold Leaf welcomed Brigitte Shull to its team in June, 2023. Brigitte joins as Senior Consultant, focusing on strategic planning, open research transformation, digital product innovation and product management, and publishing development.??

“We are delighted to welcome Brigitte to the Gold Leaf team and expand our presence into North America. Having worked with Brigitte for years on Cambridge’s library advisory boards, I know that she is an extremely talented strategist who will also enhance Gold Leaf’s capabilities by contributing her many editorial and organisational skills,” said founder Linda Bennett . “Her experience in the open research landscape and bringing new products and services to market will help us to serve better publishers, institutions, vendors, librarians and others associated with the publishing sector.”?

?Brigitte joins after 18 years in the industry, having worked on open access transformation and services, development and launch of digital products, and books and journals publishing at both non-profit and commercial publishers. She joins from Cambridge University Press & Assessment, where she was Senior Vice President for the US and Director of Scholarly Communications Research & Development. She has held past positions at Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, and Pearson Education and is currently the co-chair of the AUPresses Open Access Committee.?Her experience includes facilitating the development and implementation of strategic initiatives, leading the build and launch of the preprint server/open research platform Cambridge Open Engage and managing a global books and journals editorial team through the merger of Macmillan Science & Scholarly and Springer Business + Media.??

Commenting on her new role, Brigitte Shull said “Working with the team at Gold Leaf offers me a new way to serve the scholarly communications ecosystem, working with multiple stakeholders through the many challenges organizations are grappling with currently.?In my time working with Gold Leaf as a client, I was impressed with the team’s combination of deep experience and ability to upskill as the industry has evolved and I look forward to taking the collaboration into this exciting new chapter.”?

?For more information on Gold Leaf’s consulting and project services, please contact [email protected].?