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Leadership Bios
Thane Kerner
As co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Silverchair, Thane Kerner has since 1993 led the organization's strategic development of platforms and professional services that focus on the intersection of technology with health care knowledge. Medical informatics, the semantic web, clinical information processes, and web-based learning are the foundations for a broad variety of Silverchair-created health reference products delivered via networked digital media. Thane serves on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishers Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers; as Co-Chairman of the American Medical Publishers Committee; and on the National Library of Medicine's Publishers Advisory Panel. He is an advocate for issues of concern to the health information industry, and a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Top Management Roundtable, the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the PSP Annual Conference, the AMPC Medical Informatics Seminar, and the AMPC-National Library of Medicine Biennial Symposium.
Prior to establishing Silverchair, he was publisher of Experimental Hematology, the official journal of the International Society for Experimental Hematology. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Elizabeth Willingham
Elizabeth Willingham is a founder of Silverchair and serves as Executive Vice President. She focuses on the optimal retrieval and display of medical information. In that pursuit she takes both a macro view in designing website architectures that use semantic metadata for building blocks, and a micro view in leading a team of indexers who classify medical content at a granular level designed to anticipate the needs of health care professionals for quick, accurate answers to clinical questions. In this role, Elizabeth has collaborated with Silverchair software developers to design and build online tools that support taxonomy development and management and that improve the efficiency of topical indexing.
Elizabeth also leads Silverchair's team of project managers, who play leadership roles in product development with Silverchair's clients. She has served as the product development leader for AccessMedicine and played a supervisory role in the development of AccessSurgery, AccessEmergency Medicine, AccessPharmacy, and PsychiatryOnline. She currently serves as a leader of the AHRQ Innovations taxonomy development team and launched the Silverchair Search Service for Journal Watch in May 2007.
Elizabeth's career in medical publishing began in 1986 at Little, Brown & Company in Boston. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Radcliffe Publishing Course.
Jake Zarnegar
Jake Zarnegar was named Chief Technology Officer of Silverchair in early 2003, and attained partner status in September 2006.
Jake has led the development and deployment of a number of Silverchair's major software platforms, including:
- Silverchair Content Manager (SCM)
- Silverchair Custom Editorial Management Application (SCEMA)
- Taggers Online Thesaurus and Editorial Manager (TOTEM)
- TagMaster
- Silverchair Learning Systems (SLS)
A pioneer in XML web services for health reference content management, Jake has spearheaded a family of technologies including the application of semantic metadata to clinical content, ontology management tools, an online authoring platform for medical authors and editors, and an e-learning CMS/LMS platform.
He is a graduate of The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds is Silverchair's Vice President and Director of Health Information Research, providing strategic development and analysis for Silverchair and its clients. Additionally, he leads Silverchair's health information product research efforts, often working with university and government institutions to investigate the intersection of content, technology, and healthcare.
George has recently served as the Primary Investigator for NCI and HHS–funded research on physician tools for smoking cessation and alcohol counseling. He is the project supervisor for the AHRQ Innovations Exchange, and was the technical supervisor for AHRQ PS Net.
George brings more than 15 years of publishing industry experience and entrepreneurial success to Silverchair. Before joining the company, Mr. Reynolds was a principal founder of GonzoMedia, a San Francisco-based developer of content management and web publishing tools. From 1992 to 1997, he served as director of multimedia production at Sumeria, a new media publisher incubated by IDG Communications. George began his publishing career at Macworld magazine.
Jabin White
Jabin White is Silverchair's Vice President for Marketing,
where he works in a strategic leadership role to promote Silverchair's efforts
in helping its partners and clients in all aspects of STM publishing strategies. Before joining Silverchair, he spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division and dedicated to topics such as markup languages and supporting tools, content management, and workflow engineering.
Jabin came to Elsevier as part of the acquisition of Harcourt Health Sciences, where he led the Electronic Publishing Services group that published under the imprints of Mosby, W.B. Saunders, and Churchill Livingstone. His group performed the production work for such products as MD Consult, Mosby's Drug Consult, and The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.
Jabin started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant, and learned SGML at Mosby in the mid-90s, working on the drug reference Physicians GenRx. He held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and Unbound Medicine before joining Harcourt.
He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and is pursuing a Masters in Business Administration/Information Science at Pennsylvania State University.
Mike Benzian
Mike Benzian is the President of Silverchair Learning Systems (SLS), a subsidiary of Silverchair Science+Communications. SLS, an eLearning company, develops online training systems for all caregivers working in a senior care setting. SLS serves skilled nursing, assisted living and home health companies.
Mike brings 10 years experience in start-up software and 'software as a service' ventures, with specific expertise in product marketing and go-to-market strategy. He received his BA from the University of Virginia and his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
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