Senior Vice President – Publishing and Global Content Alliances

Rod Gauvin is Senior Vice President of K-12, News, Microfilm and Genealogy Publishing, and Global Content Alliances for ProQuest. This includes the groundbreaking Historical Newspapers’ Program. He joined the company in March 2001. Mr. Gauvin brings more than 30 years of information industry experience in reference, professional, trade, and educational publishing to his role at ProQuest.

Prior to his appointment at ProQuest, he worked for the Thomson Corporation as President and CEO of South-Western Educational Publishing, and as Managing Director of Thomas Nelson & Sons in the United Kingdom. Mr. Gauvin started his career with Thomson at Gale Research (now Gale Cengage). A long time supporter of libraries, he was the architect of the Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year Award.

Mr. Gauvin is Vice President (President-Elect for term 2010) of the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations, a newly formed division of ALA. He is a board member (2009-2011) of the United Way of Washtenaw County.

Mr. Gauvin received his BA degree, cum laude, from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.