Senior Management
Jayne Marks, CEO
Jayne has spent her career working to support the communication of research through journals, books and digital products. She has worked with teams in the UK, US and India. Helping societies to succeed both in their publishing programmes and more broadly has been a focus over the last few years.
Rebecca Moakes, CCO
Becky has spent the past decade delivering tailored solutions for organisations focused on delivering information and educational resources. With global experience across academic and related markets, she brings deep insight, cross-vertical expertise, and the ability to build lasting client relationships that drive results.
Nancy Roberts, COO
Nancy has over 25 years’ experience in publishing operations, and offers clear thinking and practical, impactful recommendations. Her focus is on helping organizations work better, and she also specializes in management and leadership development and organizational design.
George Farina
George contributes extensive international experience as an STM business development executive, having worked in and managed teams in North America, Europe and Asia. He focuses on developing new client relationships and managing projects with the support of Maverick’s global team of experienced publishing professionals.
Stephen Laverick
Stephen has extensive experience in digital publishing solutions, specialising in robust, scalable and efficient XML workflows across publishers of all sizes. He has led technical development teams, development of author service solutions and promoted ethical standards across the UK and China. He is also active in community-driven industry initiatives.
Global Network of Experts
Maverick operates through a distributed network of publishing professionals located across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia.
Consultants have backgrounds in STM, HSS, academic, trade, and educational publishing.
This network structure allows Maverick to match the right expert to each client’s challenge, whether it’s a metadata issue, pricing strategy, or open access transition.
Clients benefit from global perspectives on market trends and best practices.
The team model ensures publishers of any size can access senior-level expertise that might otherwise be unavailable in-house.