Carl Fisher, Gary Gottlieb Appointed to Ovid Board.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 1997--Ovid Technologies, Inc. [NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on NM: OVID] announced today that Carl P. Fisher and Gary L. Gottlieb have joined its board of directors. Carl Fisher has been an independent electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. consultant in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of since 1982, concentrating on business planning and analysis, market and product research, and the negotiation of acquisitions, licenses and divestitures. His client list includes publishers, media companies, and electronic publishing startups in areas such as the law, health care, science and technology, and engineering. Between 1972 and 1982, Fisher was part of the startup management team and became an officer of Mead Data Central, the provider of the Lexis and Nexis services. He received a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center Also attended
Gary Gottlieb has served as director and chief executive officer of Friends Hospital in Philadelphia since 1994. He received an M.D. degree from Albany Medical College Albany Medical College (AMC) is a medical school located in Albany, New York, United States. It was founded in 1839. The college is part of the Albany Medical Center, which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital. and an M.B.A. from Wharton, and over the past 15 years has held a number of faculty and hospital appointments in psychiatry and senior administration at the University of Pennsylvania Health System The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a diverse research and clinical care organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that operates under the direction and auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, its umbrella organization Penn Medicine and the University of . Gottlieb currently serves in an editorial role at two leading research journals. "With Gary's extensive medical background and Carl's expertise in electronic publishing, we expect them to play pivotal roles in Ovid's future direction," said Martin Kahn, chairman of the board. "Their combined experience will be a tremendous asset to the company. We are pleased that they are joining us." Ovid Technologies Ovid Technologies (or just Ovid) is part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies. It provides access to online bibliographic databases, journals and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. , Inc. is a leading provider of electronic information to the scientific, technical and medical markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops sophisticated search software for research-intensive institutions and bundles this technology with full text and bibliographic databases. Ovid software is used by thousands of prominent institutions around the world, including private and public universities, library consortia, pharmaceutical firms and governmental organizations. For more information, call (800) 950-2035 in the U.S., contact your local Ovid office or refer to Ovid's Web site at http://www.ovid.com. All product, company or organizational names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Ilyssa Greene, 212/563-3006, ext. 344 igreene@ovid.com |
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