Charles Halpin, Operations

Charles has more than 20 years of book publishing experience with companies including McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Berlitz and Reed Elsevier and a strong record of developing products for CD ROM and Web media. Most recently, Charles was the CEO of R.R. Bowker, Publisher of Books In Print, Ulrich's Periodicals Index and Literary Marketplace, responsible for developing Bowker's new generation Web products, providing publishers with Web-based book promotional tools for the retail, wholesale and library marketplaces.

Charles is also the Chairman of Pubnet, the book industry transaction ordering system linking publishers electronically to the retail book trade. He has served on the boards of the AAP (Association of American Publishers), the BISG (Book Industry Study Group) and the Executive Committee of the PSP (Professional and Scholarly Publishers) in the United States, in addition to serving as treasurer and member of the board of the DPA (Directory and Database Publishers Association) in the UK and directors panel of the International ISBN Agency in Berlin.

Charles has an MBA degree from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and a BA from Hobart College in Geneva, New York.

Carol D. Cooper, Marketing

Carol spent more than 25 years in the international professional publishing industry as a senior executive with various Reed Elsevier database publishing units; most recently in its LexisNexis division where she was Senior VP & Publisher, responsible for strategy, product & business development, and marketing. She led the development of destination web sites—lawyers.com and martindale.com-- accompanied by marketing service products designed for the law firms in the US, UK and Germany.

She began her career in college text publishing with St. Martin’s Press and worked in-house in marketing and editorial positions as well as on the road as a text book sales rep. In later marketing and sales management roles with R. R. Bowker and its international subsidiaries, she was involved in the library and retail market distribution channels.

Carol has an MA in Literature from Syracuse University and a BA from Colgate University.

Ben Ohtsu, Chief Technologist

Ben is responsible for all aspects of Bookwrap technology. Ben is the co-founder of BMM Art & Computer, a full service-software development and consulting firm specializing in custom web applications. Prior to forming BMM, Ben served as a Vice President in the Corporate and Investment Banking Division for Credit Suisse First Boston. In this role he was responsible for directing the development of proprietary investment banking applications in addition to managing the user support, hardware, and engineering groups. He co-authored the solution for the division's initial release of Microsoft NT, and was responsible for its deployment to all corporate offices in North and South America.

Ben graduated from The Cooper Union in 1991 with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Engineering, and attended Columbia University's Masters program in Computer Science.

Kimberly Martin, Webmaster

Kimberly has been designing, maintaining and managing websites since 1998. She has completed many courses on website development including CSS, Design, Writing for the Web, Website Promotion and Search Engine Optimization. She is currently working towards certification in Web Business and Web Programming.

In addition to website publishing she is also small press publisher of poetry books and has written a program in VBA that helps self-publishing authors to format their books.