Jessica Miles is Vice President, Strategy and Investments at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. She leads strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, and investments in science and technology to support the development of new products and services for advancing research and science communication. Previously, she worked in the legal sector before joining Cell Press and Elsevier, where she organized conferences and webinars, managed the Trends series of review journals, collaborated with societies, and transformed end-to-end publishing processes across Elsevier’s journal portfolio. She holds a doctorate in Microbiology from Yale University.