The ORCID Team ORCID Staff User Support Specialist Natalia Aldana Natalia supports ORCID users in different languages. She’s fluent in Spanish, English, French Engagement Lead Francisco Alsina Francisco is technical support specialist for ORCID member organizations helping them get Web Producer Rob Blackburn Rob maintains the ORCID Info site keeping it up-to-date, helps with Comms User Support Specialist Thamirys Cabral Thamirys supports users who speak Portuguese and Spanish. She has a Bachelors in Senior Engagement Lead, Global Consortia Ana Patricia Cardoso Ana is responsible for developing and promoting community adoption of ORCID across Engagement Manager, Global Direct Estelle Cheng Estelle Cheng supports and engages with ORCID Direct Members, Publishers and Services QA Lead Pedro Costa Pedro leads the QA process for the ORCID Registry managing manual and Product Director Tom Demeranville Tom ensures our technology is responsive to our community and aligned with Senior Product Manager Paula Demain Paula is responsible for gathering, managing and refining the requirements of the Senior UX Designer Dan Dineen Dan is our UX designer. He works making sure we have usable, Senior Java Backend Engineer Camelia Dumitru As part of the IT team, Camelia develops back end functionality for Operations Coordinator Jenna Ferrecchia I have a BA in Poli Sci from George Washington U. and DIRECTOR OF STAFF AND BOARD ENGAGEMENT Stephanie Harley Stephanie oversees ORCID’s strategic staff engagement initiatives, including professional development, training, staff Member Support Technical Specialist Jordan Holt Jordan provides first-in-class technical support for ORCID member organizations. In his free time, Senior Events & Outreach Manager Kimberly Inniger Kimberly manages the ORCID Events program that consists of webinars, workshops, trainings, Senior Project Manager Emilia Kutrovska Emilia’s role at ORCID is to lead projects to implement and optimize Engagement Lead, Global Direct Nabil Ksibi Nabil is responsible for fostering ORCID community adoption within the global direct Associate Director of Engagement Paloma Marín-Arraiza She holds a degree in Physics, a master's degree in Scientific Information Tech Lead, Registry Angel Montenegro As part of our Open Source Team, Angel is in charge of QA Automation Engineer Karen Madrigal Karen drives the Automated testing effort for the ORCID Registry. She graduated as Senior Front End Engineer Leonardo Mendoza As part of our Open Source Team Leonardo specializes in UI development Engagement Lead, Global Consortia Brian Minihan Brian supports community adoption, fostering development and executing strategic goals of ORCID Senior Engagement Lead Shivendra Naidoo With over a decade of experience working in the Academic Publishing and Senior User Support Specialist Mitra Najafi-Gheidari Mitra provides first tier support to researchers with queries about their ORCID Tech Lead George Nash George joined the team in 2016 having worked as a developer across Java Full Stack Engineer Daniel Palafox As part of our Open Source Team, Daniel specializes in front-end and Data Protection Officer Ellen Paterson Ellen is ORCID's data protection officer. She has a background in information Director of Communications Julie Petro As Director of Communications for ORCID, Julie is responsible for setting and Junior Full Stack Engineer Andrej Romanov Andrej helps to improve and maintain the codebase of the ORCID registry Executive Director Chris Shillum With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development User Support Manager Matt Stockman Matt has over 10 years experience of working in technology within the Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships Shawna Sadler Shawna heads up Outreach & Partnerships at ORCID, building strategic relationships worldwide Director, Technology Will Simpson Will is responsible for ORCID’s technical strategy, infrastructure, and scalability, and manages User Support Specialist Greta Taunyte Greta is originally from Lithuania, equipped with a diverse skill set and Grant Program Officer/ Engagement Lead Lombe Tembo Lombe is responsible for improving equity of participation in ORCID in currently Director of Finance and Operations Tommy Tepper As Director of Finance and Operations, Tommy oversees all aspects of ORCID’s Senior Devops Engineer Giles Westwood Giles is an experienced engineer and manager in operations with over 15 Director of Engagement Ivo Wijnbergen Heading up Engagement at ORCID, Ivo is responsible for our global community Interim Financial Controller Zena Wubneh As the Interim Financial Controller, Zena is responsible for leading ORCID's finance Content Marketing Writer Élan Young Élan creates and manages the distribution of content for ORCID’s blog, website,