Executive Team
Bob Becker
President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health & Pharma Solutions
Bob joined Wolters Kluwer Health & Pharma Solutions, division of Wolters Kluwer, in 2008. Bob has extensive and successful leadership experience in the information industry and track record of strong performance at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a unit of Wolters Kluwer's Tax, Accounting & Legal division. Bob has been with Wolters Kluwer since July 2003. Prior to Wolters Kluwer, Bob was CEO of Jupiter-MediaMetrix since 2001. His rich leadership experience in the global media and information services industry includes 13 years at the Thomson Corporation. Bob also ran a technology-based Internet start-up firm and spent nine years with PriceWaterhouse.
Education: BS, Marquette University; MBA, University of Connecticut
Karen Abramson
President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research
Karen has significant management experience in executive and leadership positions across a wide range of commercial, operational, and quality functions, as well as familiarity with the Wolters Kluwer organization to her leadership role with the Medical Research business unit. Her experience includes the roles of Vice President and General Manager at CT Corsearch, a division of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services, having started there in 2000 as Vice President of Operations. Under her leadership, CT Corsearch consistently delivered double-digit organic growth, increased market share, improved margin rates, and achieved the highest quality and customer satisfaction rates in the history of CT Corsearch. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Abramson was Vice President of Operations at MemberWorks, Inc., a $350 million direct marketer of membership service programs, online sweepstakes, and savings promotions. In addition, she held various leadership positions with the Thomson Corporation, including Vice President of Production Services and Director of Quality Management at the Thomson Tax & Accounting and Research Institute of America (RIA) divisions. Since joining Wolters Kluwer Health in July 2006, Abramson has driven renewed customer focus across the Medical Research business with new product offerings, including continuous workflow enhancements to the OvidSP online research platform and new society and journal online publishing solutions to enhance member and subscriber services.
Abramson is a member of the European Executive Council for Outsell; an Executive Board Member of the American Association of Publishers; a Publishing Member of CrossRef; and a Member of the International DOI Foundation Board.
Education: BA, George Washington University
Susan Driscoll
President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education
Susan joined Wolters Kluwer Health in 2008. Susan has thirty years of experience in academic and trade publishing, and has built her career on transforming organizations and introducing innovative technology products to solve customer problems. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer Health, Susan was Vice President, Strategy for Author Solutions, Inc., a technology-driven print-on-demand and publishing solutions provider. Prior to the purchase of iUniverse, Inc. by Author Solutions in 2007, Susan served as President/CEO of iUniverse, where she successfully implemented a company turnaround and built the iUniverse brand as a respected alternative to traditional publishing.
Susan also served as Chief Operating Officer of Bedford, Freeman & Worth (part of Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings), where she guided operations and new media strategy for the college textbook publisher. She has also held senior management roles at HarperCollins and Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Education: BA, University of Notre Dame
Arvind Subramanian
President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions
Arvind brings 24 years of general management, process and functional expertise (marketing, technology, sales, business development, customer service, operations) to Wolters Kluwer Health as the President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions. Arvind served for over 10 years at General Electric Company (GE), where he held vice president/general manager positions for several business lines at GE Information Services, and senior product/service management positions at GE Medical Systems, including positions in the global nuclear/molecular medicine modality, service marketing and operations, and strategic planning/market research. After leaving GE in 1999, Mr. Subramanian served on the executive management teams of two venture-capital backed technology start-up companies, both of which completed successful exit strategies, including ProVation Medical, where he served as Chief Operating Officer prior to the Wolters Kluwer Health acquisition. Mr. Subramanian brings significant domain expertise in the areas of healthcare medical devices, supply chain software and services and clinical software and services to Wolters Kluwer Health.
Education: BA, Case Western Reserve; MBA, Case Western Reserve