John Regazzi

From Metro Collaborate

John J. Regazzi, one of the electronic publishing industry’s most prominent executives, was appointed dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, on July 1, 2005. Regazzi is the retired CEO of Elsevier Inc., the U.S. division of Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific, technical and health information.

At Elsevier Inc., Dr. Regazzi developed the Engineering Village, the first online community for engineers; Scirus, the first search engine for science and scientific inquiry; and Science Direct, the largest and most used full-text article database for scientists and researchers in all fields.

From 1988 to 1999, Dr. Regazzi was president and CEO of Engineering Information Inc. in New Jersey. That company merged with Elsevier in 1999 and Dr. Regazzi joined the management of Elsevier at that time. From 1995 through 1997, Dr. Regazzi also served as chairman of Article Express International, a joint venture of Engineering Information Inc. and Dialog, the online-based information service company.

Dr. Regazzi has also held positions with H.H. Wilson Co. of New York; the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey; The Foundation Center of New York; Northern Illinois University and the University at Albany. He is the author of numerous articles and papers. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including: the Ei Foundation, the Elsevier Foundation, Centre of Applied Biology International (UK), St. John's Home for Boys in Far Rockaway and the Digital Advisory Board of the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

Dr. Regazzi holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from St. John's University; a master of arts in religion from the University of Iowa; a master of science in library and information science from Columbia University, and a doctorate in information science from Rutgers University.