Ian Mulvany

"Ian Mulvany is CTO at BMJ where he leads teams that deliver the technologies and features that underpin new products as well as underlying publihsing systems. He is responsible for leading on technology strategy for the company and understanding the implicaitons of new and emerging technoliges for the business.

Previously he helped setup SAGE’s methods innovation incubator SAGE Ocean following a lean product development approach. He also wokred on process re-engineering within SAGE, introudcing lean process imporvements and machine learning driven solutions. Prior to SAGE he ran technology operations for eLife, was head of product for Mendeley and ran a number of early web2.0 products for Nature Publishing Group.

Over that time he has gained a breath of experience of modern product management practice, software engineering practice, program management and a deep understanding of the technical underpinnings of many scholarly communication systems.

He collaborated in defining the extensions to the NLM DTD required to support software citation and was also one of the original organising members of the Altmetrics conference series that started in 2014. He was a founding editorial advisory board member for the Journal of Open Research Software.

He is passionate about creating digital tools that support the research enterprise. He is interested in the interplay between different stakeholders that can lead to the sustainably of these kinds of tools."