ProQuest Appoints Gersch to Lead Serials Solutions

"Serials Solutions has experienced dramatic growth through innovative new services such as Summon and I feel absolutely confident that Michael — with his ideal mix of experience as a general manager and in finance and strategic planning positions — is going to take the business to the next level," said Marty Kahn, ProQuest CEO. "I'm equally delighted that Rob will be supporting the company by leading the sales effort and thank him for his 18 months of dedicated and smart leadership."

Mr. Gersch joins Serials Solutions from LexisNexis, where – as Vice-President and Managing Director, Litigation Solutions – he managed a division of both high-growth and mature business units. In just two years, Mr. Gersch re-organized and transformed the division from a standalone product focus to a customer solutions-based approach that yielded new products, two acquisitions and alliances, ultimately leading to significant revenue growth. With LexisNexis for eight years, Mr. Gersch held successively greater responsibility throughout his career, with previous roles that included Vice President and General Management of Case Assessment and Discovery, and CourtLink. Prior to LexisNexis, he was Vice President, Finance and Strategic Planning, at Washington-based Advanced Radio Telecom, an early stage fixed wireless telecommunications company that provided broadband data and voice services to the carrier and enterprise market.

Mr. Gersch holds an MBA from Emory University and a Masters of International Business (IMB) from the University of Linz in Austria. His undergraduate degree is from State University of New York at Geneseo. Mr. Gersch and his family live in metropolitan Seattle.

About Serials Solutions

Founded by a librarian for librarians in 2000, Serials Solutions^® is the global leader in E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) that serves more than 3,000 libraries of all sizes and types. Serials Solutions’ comprehensive suite of discovery tools and management services helps improve access to and use of collections, eases librarian workloads, and ultimately reduces operating costs. Solutions include: 360, the only complete and integrated e-resource access and management solution; KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase and foundation for Serials Solutions 360; Ulrich’s, the world's most authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information for serials and the most comprehensive source of print and electronic serials data available; AquaBrowser^®, a discovery layer that makes navigation more accessible; and most recently the Summon^™ Web-scale discovery service, a world-class tool that provides instant access to the full breadth of the library’s collection through a single search.

For more information, please visit http://www.serialssolutions.com or call 1-866-SERIALS. Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.

About ProQuest

ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that provide the most successful ways for people to search, find, use, and share information.

A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as UMI^®, Chadwyck-Healey™, SIRS^®, and eLibrary^®. With Serials Solutions^®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks^®, COS™, Dialog^® and now Bowker^® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any level and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others.

The company is nearing launch of an all-new platform that will transform delivery of several highly-regarded individual platforms into a consolidated research experience that will encompass all ProQuest family products over time.  Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

For more information, please visit www.proquest.com.