Geoffrey Bilder is director of strategic initiatives at CrossRef and has more than sixteen years of experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He cofounded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with advanced technology consulting to support their research, teaching, and scholarly communication. Subsequently, he was head of information technology research and development at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, MA. From 2002 to 2005, Bilder was chief technology officer of the scholarly publishing firm Ingenta, and just prior to joining CrossRef, he was a publishing technology consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies, where he consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on emerging technologies and the ways they can affect scholarly and professional researchers.