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Quantum Media, Paris, Hired by OECD

Daniel Schiff
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Daniel Schiff is an agent of change in professional and STM (Science, Technology, Medical) publishing, for books, journals and e-products, including print and online. With 20 years’ publishing experience, he has worked on projects in most major world markets and has been based in the US, the UK, Germany and France. He has a solid track record as a turn-around specialist, rapidly generating aggressive internal and external growth. His strengths are in strategic planning, financial analysis, implementation planning and execution, with significant experience in leading –and integrating- multi-cultural teams.

As an independent consultant, Daniel, together with Quantum Media associate Chris Fodor, is currently developing Quantum Media’s antennae in Europe.

Past clients have included Reed-Elsevier, Thieme, Wolters Kluwer and Zoom.

Recent projects include:

  • establishing for a client a new affiliate publishing company in India
  • editorially re-positioning a journal list
  • strategic and succession planning for a small family-owned publishing house
  • acting as a broker for the sale of an exhibit organizer

Before joining Quantum Media, Daniel was Vice President and Publisher of Thieme in New York. Before this position, at Elsevier Science in Paris, he was the Directeur (Business Unit manager). In 6 years he turned around a business showing a loss on revenues of €5 Million and with 40 employees, into the market-leader, with €20 Million revenue, an EBITDA margin of 20% and 110 employees. He also worked for Reed-Elsevier in New York and Pergamon Press in Oxford, UK.

In a previous life Daniel was a neuroscientist, with faculty appointments in Germany and the US, funding from NIH, NASA and the European Commission, and a number of highly cited publications. He has an M.D. from Paris University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). He is currently based in Paris, but every month travels to New York, Delhi, and various European cities. Daniel speaks four languages fluently.

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Quantum Media, Paris, Hired by OECD

OECD Conference Center

The OECD headquarters in Paris' posh 16th arrondissement are a mixture of old and new. The 19th century Chateau de la Muette witnessed the signing of the Marshall Plan. The recent reconstruction of a neighboring 1970s office building yielded an eye-catching set of conference rooms designed by IM Pei, where policy makers and businessmen from the 30 OECD member countries - and beyond - gather to discuss the hot OECD issues in trade, taxation, energy, transport, agriculture and more.

The hot issue for Rory Clarke, the editor in chief of the OECD Observer, the organization's bimonthly magazine in English and French, was finding a new company to replace his long-standing publishing partner.

Rory turned to Quantum Media's Paris branch, which quickly identified some global ad sales representatives and editorial partners. The main responsibility was advertising sales, the lifeblood of the magazine, although paid subscriptions to corporations, governments, research centers and universities around the world add butter to the spinach.

Mediaside was quickly set up as the new operating partner, and the speed enabled the OECD to produce its planned issue on the MENA countries in time for a large ministerial conference in Marrakech, Morocco.

Quantum Media is now busy expanding the magazine's traditional advertising reach. The OECD Observer is expected to generate more ad revenue in 2010 than it did for all of 2008 and 2009 combined. The team is also working on the monetization of the Observer websites, which capture over 350,000 monthly page-views. Further projects in book licensing and events are also underway.

Proof that Quantum Media sets itself apart from other consultants by providing the strategic thinking and then acting on it.