Heather Staines

Community Engagement Director and Senior Consultant

Heather Staines comes to Delta Think with extensive experience in strategy and business model creation for established and startup organizations. Prior to joining Delta Think, she’s held positions with both not for profit and commercial organizations including Hypothesis, MIT Knowledge Futures Group, Springer Nature SIPX, and Proquest. As part of her new role at Delta Think, Heather will focus on business development and community support for the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool (OA DAT), fostering relationships with publishers, libraries, consortia, service providers, and aggregators. As Senior Consultant, she will use her expertise to support consulting engagements focused on analysis, strategy, and industry infrastructure in scholarly communications