Clarivate Hires General Manager for Converis System

Innovation insights firm Clarivate has appointed Caroline Birkle as General Manager of its research information management system Converis, leading an international team across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.

Converis supports universities, research institutions and funding agencies, collecting and managing data across the research life cycle. The solution is used by faculties, librarians and research managers to showcase the outputs and impact of research, and integrates with Clarivate Analytics' existing platform and products, as well as several third-party products.

Birkle (pictured) will join on 16th April from scientific and medical publishing house Thieme Chemistry in Germany, where she serves as MD with overall P&L responsibility for electronic publications, leading an international team of editorial, production and software development staff. She previously held publishing positions with the Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomson Reuters and Holtzbrinck Publishers.

Annette Thomas, CEO of Clarivate Analytics' Scientific and Academic Research Group, comments: 'With her deep understanding of the research market, commercial and strategic acumen, as well as operational and transformational experience, Caroline is ideally suited to lead Converis during its next phase of growth. Converis currently supports a wide variety of customers in more than twenty countries and it's our intention to significantly evolve and strengthen its position in the market by integrating more data and by providing a more streamlined product offering'.

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