Management board

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Springer Nature

Daniel Ropers joined Springer Nature in October 2017, following 17 years as CEO at online retailer bol.com. Under his leadership bol.com grew from a start-up to one of Europe's leading online retailers.

Prior to joining bol.com, Daniel had an early career in management consulting, at McKinsey & Co, working for international clients and developing expertise in e-commerce. Daniel holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, having studied Global Economics and Business Studies at Erasmus University (Rotterdam, NL) and ESSEC (Cergy-Pontoise, France).

Chief Publishing Officer (CPO), Springer Nature

Steven Inchcoombe read Physics at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC. From 1990 to 2000, Steven was at Interactive Data Corporation, where he ultimately became responsible for strategy, M&A and the EMEA region, and during this period the business became listed on NASDAQ. He then moved on to Board positions with the Financial Times Group, including UK Publisher of the Financial Times and Managing Director of ft.com.

Steven joined the Macmillan Board in 2006. From 2007 to 2013, he led the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), and in 2013 became CEO of Macmillan’s Science and Scholarly division, comprising NPG, Scientific American and Palgrave Macmillan. Following the creation of Springer Nature in May 2015 he was appointed Managing Director of its Nature Research Group and most recently promoted to Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in March 2016.

Group General Counsel (GGC), Springer Nature

Rachel Jacobs holds postgraduate diplomas in Law and Legal Practice from the College of Law, as well as a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Leeds. As an experienced corporate lawyer, she has held roles at CMS Cameron McKenna and various senior positions in the legal team at the FTSE listed media business, Informa plc.

Rachel joined Macmillan Science and Education as Global General Counsel in 2011, before taking up her role as Group General Counsel for Springer Nature in May 2015.

Chief Operating Officer (COO), Springer Nature

Martin Mos received a Masters degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Groningen, and began his career as a member of the auditing department at Ernst & Young. He moved on to several positions at Elsevier, including positions in internal auditing for Elsevier International, management roles at Elsevier Business Information and Chief Financial Officer for Elsevier Science.

Martin served as Springer’s Chief Operating Officer from 2004 before moving into the same position for Springer Nature in May 2015.

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Springer Nature

Frank Vrancken Peeters has spent more than twenty years in academic, educational and professional publishing in a range of senior commercial roles. Before joining Springer Nature as Chief Commercial Officer, Frank worked at Wolters Kluwer, where he was Regional Managing Director (RMD), Legal & Regulatory, Western Europe. He also lead the global Sales & Marketing centre at the company. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Frank was Chief Operating Officer at Infinitas Learning and spent almost ten years with Elsevier Science, where he served as MD Government and Academic Markets, MD Science Direct and MD Global Sales, amongst other roles. Frank entered academic publishing following an early career in management consulting, working with global media clients at Booz Allen Hamilton.