Elizabeth Nolan

Elizabeth Nolan is the Interim Chief Executive Officer for Optica. While at Optica, she has championed the Society’s 2017-2021 Strategic Planning process and has led the launch of its revamped publishing and peer review platforms, 5 new journals as well as several new services and technology based solutions to better meet the needs of the optics and photonics community.

Before joining Optica, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Strategy at SPi Global. While at SPi, she directed the efforts of a number of different teams and developed a host of new and innovative services for Scientific, Medical and Technical publishers. Prior to that, she held senior level positions at Thompson Publishing Group, and The Worldwatch Institute and spent her early years working in the publishing industry at Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins at the time). With almost 25 years of experience working with not-for-profit organizations, commercial publishers and an Asia-based business process outsourcing provider, Elizabeth has forged a career that is rich in global expansion, new product/service development, as well as journal publishing.