Scholarly and Commercial Publishing Sales Executive Joins Access Innovations, Inc. As Vice President of Business Development
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data enrichment and content management solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Veronica Showers as Vice President of Business Development.
With more than 20 years of experience in sales and strategic growth for SaaS platforms in the scholarly publishing, education, and commercial markets, Showers brings a deep understanding of customer needs and proven success in business development and sales leadership.
In her new role, Showers will lead Access Innovations’ strategic partnership initiatives, manage a growing business development pipeline, and drive the establishment of sales and marketing targets to support continued company growth.
“We are thrilled to have Veronica on our team,” said Heather Kotula, President and CEO of Access Innovations. “She brings a wealth of expertise in one of our core markets: scholarly publishing. We are confident that her experience and leadership will strengthen our sales and marketing efforts across all sectors we serve.”
Prior to joining Access Innovations, Showers served as Vice President of Sales at Boclips, a provider of over 1.7 million curriculum-aligned educational videos. She has also held executive roles, including Vice President of Customer Success at Silverchair, Director of Sales at Atypon (a Wiley Partner Solutions company), and Client Development Manager at Aries Systems Corporation. Her background includes a strong focus on SaaS solutions for scholarly and professional publishers, government agencies, associations, and academic institutions.
Showers holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree from Colorado State University. She is an active member of the academic publishing community, having served on the Program Committee for The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors, and as Co-Chair of both the Development Committee and the Philanthropic Fund Task Force for the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She also volunteers with Food for Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to addressing food insecurity for children.
About Access Innovations, Inc. – www.accessinn.com, www.taxodiary.com
Access Innovations empowers clients to realize their search goals by leveraging its AI-based Data Harmony suite and team of semantic experts. Data Harmony helps clients build accurate and explainable AI that increases search precision by more than 90 percent and their team’s productivity by more than seven times. For more information about Access Innovations or Data Harmony, please visit www.accessinn.com or www.taxodiary.com.
