Jonathan Keidan to Lead U.S. Business Development for Mendeley

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley, the world's largest online research collaboration platform, welcomes Jonathan Keidan as senior vice president, business development and operations. Jonathan, together with Mendeley co-founder, Jan Reichelt, will lead the company's efforts in the U.S. Jonathan's specific responsibilities will include enhancing Mendeley's U.S. platform for its more than 500,000 researchers and developing strategic partnerships with universities, government institutions, corporations and publishers.

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"Mendeley goes beyond a technology platform – we are helping to create a movement for academic and industry researchers who want to collaborate with like-minded people and discover research trends," said Jan Reichelt, co-founder of Mendeley. "Jon's experience working in industries that are on the cusp of digital innovation, such as education and music, will enhance our ability to grow an online research platform that is fundamentally changing the speed and nature of the research process."

Jonathan joins London-headquartered Mendeley having previously built up the Jack Welch Management Institute (JWMI), an online education venture founded by the former General Electric CEO, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Jonathan was a consultant in the media practice at McKinsey & Company after spending 10 years running his own talent management company.

"Having spent the last decade in the music and entertainment industries, I see the immense creative potential that digital distribution and social media can bring to the research space. By embracing these innovations, Mendeley's platform allows researchers to work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively," said Jonathan Keidan. "As a result, we expect that Mendeley will ultimately result in faster progress in science, medicine and engineering. That means life-saving drugs and more advanced products can come to market in much shorter timeframes. And that has implications for each and every one of us."

For more information, visit http://www.mendeley.com, or follow Mendeley on Twitter, Facebook or FriendFeed.

About Mendeley

Mendeley is a rapidly growing technology startup that is helping to revolutionize the way research is conducted. Used by more than 500,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley's reference manager and citation generator enables researchers to share data across Mendeley's web platform, work together in groups, and discover real-time research trends. Launched in London in December 2008, the company is already the world's largest research collaboration platform and, with more than 35 million indexed documents, is on track to become the world's largest research database. The company's investors include those who previously built Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music Group.

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