Rachel Kessler is a product manager at ProQuest, where she determines the strategic direction of ProQuest’s social science aggregation portfolio. Prior to being employed by ProQuest, she worked for Ex Libris on their discovery services and link resolvers. She co-chairs the NISO Open Discovery Initiative and serves as a Review Editor for the journal, Learned Publishing. She has a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.