 Welcome to our series on Connecting Scholarly Publishing Experts and Researchers. I am Kuntan Dhanoia, Vice President Business Development at Crimson Interactive. Today joining me is Michael Willis. He's the Senior Manager for Peer Review at a leading publisher. He's also currently the President for the International Society for Managing and Technical Editors. Hi Michael, welcome and thank you for being here today. It's a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. Michael, you have an incredible journey working in the scholarly publishing industry. Could you tell us how did you embark on this journey and did you always want to specialise in peer review management? Okay, so my first job in publishing was, if you can call it publishing, was working in a library, a faculty library, a university and from there I moved very quickly to a small start-up company in the early days of putting academic journal content online. That was my first exposure really to academic journal publishing and dealing with the content, dealing with authors and dealing with publishers primarily in that role. I moved in 2005 to the company that I work for now and that was really a peer review management role. So that was my first introduction to peer review and since then I've been working pretty much in peer review all that time. Yeah, I couldn't say I started off with a burning ambition to work in peer review. I fell into it by accident if you like.