ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest has promoted Jonathan Collins to Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Collins, who has been interim CFO since May, oversees all ProQuest's financial functions, including financial operations, accounting, procurement, facilities, treasury, taxation and investor relations.
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"Jonathan's experience and abilities have made him a vital contributor at ProQuest," said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. "We're delighted to have his strong financial leadership across our entire enterprise."
Mr. Collins joined ProQuest in 2010 as Vice President of Global Financial Operations. Prior to joining ProQuest, he was the Executive Director of Financial Operations for the $2.5 billion North American and Asian businesses at International Automotive Components (IAC), a privately owned full service supplier of interior components to global automobile manufacturers. Prior to that role, Mr. Collins spent five years with Lear, a publically traded Fortune 150 company, in various financial roles in offices throughout the world. Among his positions at Lear was Director of Finance for the North American Electrical Distribution Systems Division, a $1 billion portion of the company's global Electrical & Electronics business. Before joining Lear, Jonathan was a financial analyst with Accenture.
Mr. Collins earned his MBA from the University of Michigan, where he graduated with distinction and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma. He holds a BA from Cedarville University.
75th Anniversary of Landmark Innovation
ProQuest is celebrating the 75th anniversary of microfilm and the legacy of innovations that have supported researchers and librarians for more than a century. The launch of University Microfilms, Inc. (UMI) introduced a new era for libraries, enabling preservation and sharing of large document collections.
To commemorate this pivotal milestone, the company created a comic book that tells the story in true superhero fashion of how microfilm became the gold standard for information preservation. Eugene B. Power and the Wild Beginnings of UMI is available in print and e-book format.
About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company's products are a gateway to the world's knowledge including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections and e-books. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create and manage information.
The company's cloud-based technologies offer flexible solutions for librarians, students and researchers through the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, EBL® and Serials Solutions® businesses – and notable research tools such as the Summon® discovery service, RefWorks® Flow, Pivot™ and Intota®, a new library services platform. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.
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