John Regazzi has spent over 40 years in the in electronic information services and IT industries. Called a "pioneer" and "true innovator" of the information industry, he has designed, launched, and managed some of the most innovative and well-known information services in the professional communities including the Engineering Village, Science Direct, Scirus, Scopus, and many other electronic information services dating back to the early days of the online and CDROM industries. John spent most of his career with Reed Elsevier, and retired as CEO of Elsevier Inc. Prior to that he was CEO of Engineering Information Inc., a company he helped turnaround and which was acquired by Reed Elsevier. In 2005 John assumed the role of Dean of the College of Information and Computer Science of Long Island University (LIU), and recently stepped down from this post and now lectures and directs the Scholarly Communications and Information Innovation Lab at LIU.
