Sean Pidgeon

Leader and team-builder in academic publishing. Content and product strategy in the scientific, technical and medical research space.

South Orange Village, New Jersey, United States

About

Creative publisher focusing on forward-looking business and product strategy in the scientific and medical research space. Innovative developer of digital information products. Effective builder and leader of cross-functional teams including editorial, marketing, sales, and technology functions. Experienced publisher of books, journals, and reference works in science and medicine, with broad knowledge of the academic publishing ecosystem.

Experience

  • ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (Full-time · 4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Executive Editor
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Editor
      Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Publishing Director, Science and Medicine at Oxford University Press
    Jul 2015 - Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • John Wiley and Sons (10 yrs 9 mos)
    • VP & Director, Research Solutions
      May 2013 - Jan 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Founder member of a new team devoted to digital strategy and product innovation at Wiley. Pioneered customer-centric approaches to product development in areas beyond the traditional publishing space. Built a pipeline of new product concepts, focusing on content-enabled workflow tools to improve the efficiency and fidelity of the research process.

    • VP and Publisher
      May 2008 - Apr 2013 · 5 yrs

      Strategic management of a $10M program of journal and book publishing in the life and physical sciences. Conceived and launched the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, an award-winning series of 12 high-profile journals combining the most powerful features of review journals and scholarly reference works.

    • Editorial Director
      May 2004 - Apr 2008 · 4 yrs

      Editorial and strategic responsibility for a $10M reference publishing program in the sciences.

  • Publisher at Nature Publishing Group
    Jan 2000 - 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Managed a $5M program of major reference works in the life and physical sciences.

  • President at Pidgeon Publishing Services
    Aug 1998 - Dec 1999 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Consultant to major STM publishers including IEEE, Nature Publishing Group, Thomson Gale and CABI.