Science|Business
About: Team
Richard L. Hudson
Richard L. Hudson
CEO & Editor

Richard co-founded Science|Business in 2005 with Peter Wrobel and Malcolm Laws. He has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for more than 30 years. As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000. He is a graduate of Harvard, a former Knight Fellow at MIT. In 2004 he co-authored a book with Yale/IBM "fractal" mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward. Basic Books 2004.

Duane Schulthess
Duane Schulthess
Commercial Director

Duane is the Commercial Director of Science|Business. Previously he was head of corporate development for The Wall Street Journal, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he developed a series of successful digital products. For 11 years, he was the Executive Director of the Minneapolis based not-for-profit ICE that combined ground-breaking technologies with music and performance. Duane was a fellowship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has a BA Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Pacific, and an MBA with Distinction from The Vlerick School of Management at KU Leuven where he has been a contributing member of the international steering committee.

Gail Edmondson
Gail Edmondson
Editorial Director

Gail manages editorial content, research projects and the Academic Enterprise Awards Europe (ACES). A former bureau chief and senior European correspondent for Business Week magazine, Gail has reported on European technology, entrepreneurs and finance for more than 20 years from Germany, France, Spain and Italy. She joined the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2008 on a one-year project post as strategic communications manager in the Science, Technology and Industry directorate. An award-winning journalist, she holds degrees from Cornell University and Stanford University.

Steven Maisel
Company Secretary

Steven is a finance director and consultant with experience across several industries. He was financial director of Allied Domecq's international holding company, and its project manager for European Economic Monetary Union. He was also director of investor relations at Paris-listed Provimi, an animal-feed company based in the Netherlands, and financial director of Blueprint Partners, a successful Brussels public affairs start-up.

Nuala Moran
Nuala Moran
Managing Editor

Nuala manages website editorial content and writes news and features for Science|Business. One of Europe's most experienced science and technology journalists, Nuala was formerly managing editor of Nature, innovation editor of the The Independent on Sunday and deputy editor of Computer Weekly. For the past 14 years she has covered the European biotechnology sector for the US publication BioWorld, and is a contributor to Nature Biotechnology. She has also been a regular contributor to the Financial Times. In 1995 she won the UK Technology Journalist of the year award and in 2006 was named as a Science Journalism Laureate by Purdue University.

Michael Kenward
Michael Kenward, OBE
Editor at Large

Michael is a regular contributor to Science Business and a leading UK-based science writer and editor. Michael started his career as physicist but gravitated to journalism and New Scientist magazine. He has written for Financial Times, The Engineer, Ingenia, BioWorld Today, Physics World. An award-winning journalist, he was one of the founder members of the UK Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and in 1990. In 1990 he received the Order of the British Empire “for services to journalism”.

Peter Wrobel
Peter Wrobel
Founding Director

Peter co-founded Science|Business in 2005 with Richard Hudson and was its first editorial director. He now works on a variety of editorial projects within the company. From 1996 to 2004, Peter was managing editor of Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. He has 25 years' experience in writing and editing science journalism, including four years as head of publications at the UK Medical Research Council and eight years as chief sub-editor at New Scientist. He is a past chairman of the Association of British Science Writers.

John Wyles
John Wyles
Director, Science|Business Innovation Board

John manages the Science|Business Innovation Board, an independent non-profit panel of European leaders that aims to improve the climate for innovation. His experience includes 18 years at the Financial Times as Foreign News Editor, Rome and New York correspondent, and head of EU coverage in Brussels. John is an experienced strategic advisor on EU affairs to clients in banking, accounting, automobile, high technology, financial services and other sectors. Between 1995 and 2001, he developed the Euro information campaign for the European Commission. John holds a degree in politics from the University of Liverpool.

Peter Koekoek
Peter Koekoek
Online Producer

Peter is responsible for the online content, and contributes articles and interviews on EU innovation policy. Before joining Science|Business in Brussels, he completed an internship at the International Office of the Beuth University of Technology in Berlin. Peter studied English in Amsterdam and holds a degree in European Studies from the Thorbecke Academy in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, where he was on the board of the Erasmus Student Network.

Shane McCollam
Shane McCollam
Network Relations Manager

Shane is responsible for the Science|Business partner network. Before joining the company in 2009 as a researcher, Shane worked for United Health Group (USA) as an expert in the area of prescription policy. He holds a joint BA from UWI Barbados and UC Berkeley in political science and history. During this period, he also worked as an assistant researcher for the Caribbean polling organisation CADRES. Shane moved to Europe in 2008 to complete an MA in European decentralized governance.

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Lori Valigra
US Correspondent

Lori is a regular contributor to Science|Business based in Cambridge, Mass. She also reports on Asia, where she was posted for five years. Her work appears in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic News, Science, Reuters, and United Press International. Lori has worked for the Computer Industry Daily with Esther Dyson and LocalBusiness.com, a Web-based news service and served as Tokyo Bureau Chief for IDG News Service. She has won numerous fellowships, including the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.

Anna Jenkinson
Anna Jenkinson
Brussels correspondent

Anna covers science and innovation policy from Brussels. She has over a decade of experience in Europe and Asia and worked for Bloomberg News from 2000-2007, first as an editor in Singapore, covering financial and general news, and then in Brussels, managing the agency's EU legal coverage. She has also published articles in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and The Independent. Anna holds a degree in modern languages (French and German) from Oxford University.

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Fabrice Delaye
Paris Correspondent

Fabrice writes about science and technology from Paris. Fabrice joined the weekly magazine L'Hebdo in 1994, specialising in science, technology and business. In 2006 he became international correspondent of the Swiss daily Le Bilan. He has also worked as a US correspondent in Bosto and his work has appeared in Le Figaro and Le Monde.

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Sophie Pevtschin
Finance Officer

Sophie is Finance Officer at Science|Business. She has worked in finance for IBM as well as several small and medium-sized companies. She studied mathematics and actuarial science at Brussels University (ULB) and Trinity College, Cambridge University as a laureate of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation.

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