Tony Alves, Director of Product Management at Aries Systems Corporation in the United States: Tony has worked in STM publishing since 1989 and has focused on electronic publishing for over twenty five years, designing online learning products and workflow management software. Tony joined Aries Systems in 2001 to manage the development and rollout of the Editorial Manager system and is responsible for designing new features and functions for the EM/PM system, as well as assisting in defining the strategic direction of the company including new product ideas and new market opportunities. Before that he served as Publisher at HealthStream, Inc., a leading provider of online educational tools for healthcare organizations; and at SilverPlatter Education, an early developer of multimedia products for physicians on CD-ROM and the Internet. Tony also worked at Harvard University, where he was an Assistant Managing Editor for the journal Circulation Research; and CV Mosby, assisting an Acquisitions Editor in the professional medical textbook department.

Tony is a member of and/or actively participates in several professional societies, such as the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), the International Society for Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), the International Association of STM Publishers (STM), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and FORCE11. For CSE, Tony serves as Treasurer, participates on the Program Committee, has served on various task forces, and has written for the CSE publication Science Editor. For ISMTE he has served on the Industry Advisory Board, on the Asian-Pacific annual meeting committee, and has written articles for their publication EON. For SSP he chaired the website redesign task force. Tony is co-chair of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach NISO working group.