Derk Haank, Chief Executive Officer to retire and to be succeeded by Daniel Ropers

Derk Haank is to retire from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Springer Nature  by the end of 2017. Derk will be succeeded by Daniel Ropers, currently CEO of bol.com, who will join Springer Nature on October 1 and work with Derk until December to ensure a smooth transition. Derk has thirty years of experience in the academic publishing industry, almost half of which have been with Springer.  He joined Springer Science+Business Media in 2004 as its CEO and drove the migration of content from print to digital, re-inventing the academic book market in the process.   Throughout his career, Derk championed new business models and in 2008, led the acquisition of BioMed Central which together with Springer’s own open products led Springer Science+Business Media to become the leading  open access publisher in the world. The culmination of his career was the merger of Springer Science+Business Media with the majority of Macmillan Science and Education in 2015.  He became CEO of the newly created Springer Nature and for the past two years led the integration of the businesses to become the world’s leading open access publisher, the number one academic book publisher and publisher of the most influential journals.  Derk Haank, CEO, Springer Nature, commented: “I’m at the stage in my career when I’d like to step back from a CEO role and try something a little different and a little less all consuming. The fact that we have found a great successor in Daniel makes ...
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