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Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA) (NYSE:JWB), today announced the
appointment of Guido F. Herrmann as publishing leader for Germany.
Guido joins Wiley from Georg Thieme Verlag KG, where he has worked for
much of the past 20 years as Managing Director for Chemistry. In his
time at Thieme, Guido has digitized and internationalized the chemistry
program. He managed institutional sales and led the digital product
management for Thieme’s e-journals and e-books platform.
“I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Guido F. Herrmann as
Vice President and Managing Director and co-Geschäftsführer of
Wiley-VCH,” said Jay Flynn, Senior Vice President & Managing Director,
Research at Wiley. “As with all of Wiley, our success is tied to our
customers’ success, and this ethos informs all aspects of our business.
Guido understands and shares this position; he is a well-known leader in
our industry whose background and experience will be an invaluable asset
to Wiley and our customers.”
In his role at Wiley, Dr. Herrmann will be responsible for business
operations in Germany and lead a substantial portion of Wiley’s global
journal portfolio, with primary responsibility for titles that follow
the high-impact in-house editorial model.
Guido F. Herrmann currently chairs the STM Copyright Enforcement Task
Force and sits on the Supervisory Board of VG Wort, the German
reproduction rights organization. He is a past member of the GDCh Awards
Committee and the Supervisory Board of FIZ Karlsruhe, where he also
chaired the Scientific Advisory Board for many years.
Guido has undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Chemistry
from the Universities of Aachen and Düsseldorf, respectively. He carried
out his graduate research in bio-organic chemistry at the Scripps
Institute in California and did his postdoctoral studies at ETH Zurich.
He holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, UK. Guido presents
frequently at international conferences and has published as first
author research in (among others) Angewandte Chemie, Tetrahedron
Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Helvetica Chimica
Acta and Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht.
Guido will join Wiley in April 2017 and will be based in Weinheim and
also manage teams in Hoboken, Oxford and Beijing.
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