SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE
EXPLORE +
  • About infoDOCKET
  • Academic Libraries on LJ
  • Research on LJ
  • News on LJ
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Libraries
    • Academic Libraries
    • Government Libraries
    • National Libraries
    • Public Libraries
  • Companies (Publishers/Vendors)
    • EBSCO
    • Elsevier
    • Ex Libris
    • Frontiers
    • Gale
    • PLOS
    • Scholastic
  • New Resources
    • Dashboards
    • Data Files
    • Digital Collections
    • Digital Preservation
    • Interactive Tools
    • Maps
    • Other
    • Podcasts
    • Productivity
  • New Research
    • Conference Presentations
    • Journal Articles
    • Lecture
    • New Issue
    • Reports
  • Topics
    • Archives & Special Collections
    • Associations & Organizations
    • Awards
    • Funding
    • Interviews
    • Jobs
    • Management & Leadership
    • News
    • Patrons & Users
    • Preservation
    • Profiles
    • Publishing
    • Roundup
    • Scholarly Communications
      • Open Access

July 5, 2011 by Gary Price

Kurt Sanford Named CEO of ProQuest, Marty Kahn Will Become Vice Charirman of ProQuest Board

July 5, 2011 by Gary Price

Just In From Ann Arbor:

 

ProQuest today announced that Kurt Sanford will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Directors on July 13, 2011.  Mr. Sanford, a highly experienced information services executive, previously spent the past 14 years at LexisNexis, serving most recently as President, Global Operations for its global legal business.

Mr. Sanford will succeed Marty Kahn, who has led ProQuest since it was acquired by Cambridge Information Group (CIG) in 2007.  Mr. Kahn will become Vice Chairman of ProQuest’s Board of Directors, and also consult with ProQuest and its parent company CIG.  He will be based in CIG’s New York office.

Andrew M. Snyder, Chairman of ProQuest and President of CIG, said, “We are delighted to welcome Kurt Sanford to ProQuest.  Our ability to attract an information industry executive with Kurt’s track record and knowledge reflects ProQuest’s potential for continued strong growth. We look forward to his leadership in driving and executing on the strategies that will allow ProQuest to further enhance its position in the industry.”

About Kurt SanfordPrior to joining ProQuest, Mr. Sanford, 53, was President, Global Operations for the global legal business of LexisNexis, with responsibility for global oversight and management of all technology functions, editorial and production, and customer support. Previously, he was President and CEO of U.S. Corporate and Public Markets for LexisNexis, overseeing the business, government and academic markets as well as the Risk Solutions business.  Earlier, Mr. Sanford served as CEO of LexisNexis Asia Pacific and as the Senior Vice President for LexisNexis Large Law Firm Markets in the U.S., as well as holding other strategic and business development roles within the Company.  Before joining LexisNexis, Mr. Sanford was a consultant at Bain and Company, the global business strategy consulting firm, where he specialized in assisting technology, telecommunications, consumer products and financial service firms. Prior to that, he was a vice president of a diversified financial services firm and also served on active duty in the U.S. Army as a Captain and member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

Mr. Sanford earned an MBA, with distinction, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received his JD, with honors, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA. He also graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.

About Marty Kahn

Mr. Kahn, 61, is widely respected throughout the information industry.  Before joining ProQuest, Mr. Kahn was Chairman of the Board of Directors of OneSource Information Services, Inc. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ovid Technologies, Inc. and as Chairman of the Board of Vista Information Solutions.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Kahn served as President of BRS Information Technologies; General Manager of the Health Professions Division of McGraw-Hill; and as VP, Sales and Marketing, of the W.B. Saunders Company.  He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA cum laude from Yale College.

Read the Complete News Release

Filed under: Management and Leadership, News

SHARE:

Info IndustryKurt SanfordMarty KahnProQuest

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

ADVERTISEMENT

Archives

Job Zone

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Infodocket Posts

Video Recordings of the METRO Four-Part Series: "Copyright and Fair Use for Libraries" Now Available; Features Presentations by...

Video recordings of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) series “Copyright and Fair Use for Libraries” were recently made available online. Each webinar recording is embedded below and also ...

Newspapers: "Dig Into History: Search the More Than 140 Years of Yale Daily News Now Online"

From the Yale Library: The library’s digital archive of Yale Daily News (YDN)—the nation’s oldest continuously published college daily—has expanded to include 3,306 more issues than it had just two years ago. ...

Arkansas: Crawford County Parents Sue Library System Over Relocation Of LGBTQ+ Children’s Books

From the Arkansas Advocate: Three Crawford County parents have sued the county judge, quorum court, library board and interim library director, alleging “unlawful censorship of materials,” specifically children’s books with ...

Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week

From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were ...

Iowa Governor Signs Education Law on Book Bans, LGBTQ Teaching

From the Des Moines Register: Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a sweeping education law that orders the removal from schools of books that contain sex acts and restricts teaching about ...

Report: "Central Arkansas Library System Moving Forward With Lawsuit Against State Library Law"

From KUAR: The board of the Central Arkansas Library System voted to move forward Thursday on a lawsuit against a new state law regulating public libraries. Act 372 requires books ...

Knowledge Matters: The British Library Releases Strategy For the Next Seven Years

From a Blog Post by Roly Keating, Chief Executive, British Library: Today we publish Knowledge Matters, the British Library’s strategy for the next seven years. It outlines the ways in which we ...

AI: "UNESCO Mobilizes Education Ministers From Around the World for a Co-Ordinated Response to ChatGPT"

Here’s the Full Text of a Statement infoDOCKET Received from UNESCO: In response to the rapid emergence of new and powerful generative AI tools, on Thursday, UNESCO held the first ...

Just Released: ARL and CARL Report on Research Libraries' Alignment with Institutional STEM Priorities

From a Joint Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Post: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) ...

Research Tools: World Health Organization (WHO) Announces Release of Data.who.int

From the WHO: Data.who.int provides open access to WHO’s health data through a harmonized, consolidated and seamless experience. Starting with the data underlying WHO’s annual World Health Statistics report, the ...

Standards: EPUB 3.3 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

Here’s the Complete Announcement From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):  W3C has just published the newest version of EPUB, EPUB 3.3, as a W3C Recommendation (an international Web Standard) as ...

Fully Open Access Journals – Size Does Matter; Global Open Access Initiative, SCOAP3, Drives Dramatic Increase in Reach...

Coalition for Canadian Digital Heritage Shares its Strategic Framework (via CRKN) Fully Open Access Journals – Size Does Matter (via Delta Think) Florida: “Broward Commissioner Voices Support For Library’s Banned ...

ADVERTISEMENT

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

Tweets by infoDOCKET

ADVERTISEMENT

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

Primary Sidebar

  • News
  • Reviews+
  • Technology
  • Programs+
  • Design
  • Leadership
  • People
  • COVID-19
  • Advocacy
  • Opinion
  • INFOdocket
  • Job Zone

Reviews+

  • Booklists
  • Prepub Alert
  • Book Pulse
  • Media
  • Readers' Advisory
  • Self-Published Books
  • Review Submissions
  • Review for LJ

Awards

  • Library of the Year
  • Librarian of the Year
  • Movers & Shakers 2022
  • Paralibrarian of the Year
  • Best Small Library
  • Marketer of the Year
  • All Awards Guidelines
  • Community Impact Prize

Resources

  • LJ Index/Star Libraries
  • Research
  • White Papers / Case Studies

Events & PD

  • Online Courses
  • In-Person Events
  • Virtual Events
  • Webcasts
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Media Inquiries
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Submit Features/News
  • Data Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Terms of Sale
  • FAQs
  • Careers at MSI


© 2023 Library Journal. All rights reserved.


© 2022 Library Journal. All rights reserved.