Personanondata: Another Day another Deal: Springer Science

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Another Day another Deal: Springer Science

According to sources Springer Science has hired Goldman Sachs and others to prepare the company for an IPO valued at over 2.0bill Euros. Springer Science is the result of a prior combination of Bertelsmann Springer and Kluwer Academic. The company publishes of over 1400 journals and 5000 academic book titles per year. The main subject areas for both are science, medical and technology.

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Michael Cairns

Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.