Chris Leonard
Director Of Product Solutions at Cactus Communications
Torridge District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Leonard is a product and publishing technology leader with 25 years’ experience shaping editorial workflows and research tools, now serving as Director of Product Solutions at Cactus Communications. He has led product and strategy across academic and trade publishing—from Elsevier and BioMed Central to Emerald and Qatar Foundation—bringing a deep understanding of manuscript workflows and automated assessment. Chris is driving work that moves beyond metadata and regex to apply NLP and machine learning for verifying research, linking prior work, and predicting future directions, while prioritising ethics and environmental impact. A design and accessibility advocate, he insists that scholarly tools be beautiful, fast and delightful for all users. Based in Torridge District, England, he combines long-form editorial instincts with modern AI‑driven product thinking, having been a product manager before the title was commonplace.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, DutchGithub contributions (1)
qsciencedotcom/connect
Apr 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 7 months
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