--- title: Mark Hester joins Kudos as Head of Business Development description: Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Hester as Head of Business Developme image: https://blog.growkudos.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/6lzkp94d_400x400.png --- [![logo-with-wordmark-black-transparent](https://blog.growkudos.com/hubfs/logo-with-wordmark-black-transparent.svg)](https://www.growkudos.com/)   - Share research ⌄ - [For researchers](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/researchers-2023) - [For publishers](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/publishers) - [For universities](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/universities-2023) - [For pharma](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/medical-pharmaceutical-research-layered-publications-article-extenders) - [SDG Knowledge Cooperative](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/sdg-knowledge-cooperative) - Read research ⌄ - [Kudos Research Showcase](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/) - [Arts & Humanities](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-arts-and-humanities-research) - [Business & Management](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-business-and-management-research) - [Climate Change](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/climate-change) - [COVID and Beyond](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/coronavirus) - [Environmental Sciences](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-environmental-research) - [Life Sciences](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-life-science-research) - [Medical Sciences](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-medical-research) - [Physical Sciences](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-physical-science-research) - [Social Sciences](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-social-science-research) - [Technology & Engineering](https://www.growkudos.com/showcase/collections/summaries-of-technology-and-engineering-research) - Resources ⌄ - [How to guides: getting started with Kudos](https://info.growkudos.com/content-and-resources#how-to) - [News](https://blog.growkudos.com/news) - [Researcher case studies](https://info.growkudos.com/content-and-resources#case_studies) - [Educational webinars](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/kudos-webinars) - [Training materials](https://info.growkudos.com/content-and-resources#training_materials) - [Research projects](https://info.growkudos.com/content-and-resources#kudos_research) - [Publisher case studies](https://info.growkudos.com/content-and-resources#publisher-case-studies) - [About](https://info.growkudos.com/landing/about) - [Log in](https://www.growkudos.com/hub) [![Join Kudos](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/5642616/f2a2023e-e6e6-4d0b-bec9-cb73d1281c15.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/5642616/f2a2023e-e6e6-4d0b-bec9-cb73d1281c15) [Kudos News](https://blog.growkudos.com/news) # Mark Hester joins Kudos as Head of Business Development May 30 2018 / By **Lauren McNeill** For immediate release, May 30th, 2018 –– Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Hester as Head of Business Development. Mark is no stranger to the scholarly information sector, most recently managing international sales and client services at Ingenta, Aries and Atypon. ![6LzKp94d_400x400](https://blog.growkudos.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/6lzkp94d_400x400.png?width=150&name=6lzkp94d_400x400.png) At Kudos, Mark will take responsibility for the company’s continued growth from its current base of more than one hundred publisher, society, institutional and corporate clients. “We’re excited to have Mark join our team,” said Melinda Kenneway, Executive Director of Kudos. “Mark is widely known and respected in the industry. I’ve personally known him for many years and I know he’ll be a great asset to us and our customers.” “I am delighted to join the Kudos team with its fantastic profile in the academic community, and exciting vision for boosting the performance of research,” adds Mark Hester.“I’m thrilled to be joining them and helping to augment the whole scholarly communications experience, from researcher to reader” Mark will be speaking at the upcoming EASE conference in June. Mark can be contacted at [mark@growkudos.com](mailto:mark@growkudos.com) -- ENDS -- Contact: Charlie Rapple [charlie.a.rapple@growkudos.com](mailto:charlie.a.rapple@growkudos.com) +44 1865 872527 **About Kudos** 225,000 researchers have signed up to use Kudos’ free platform for managing communications around their publications – across multiple publishers and tools. 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