Ben is a product development manager in the Web Publishing team at Nature Publishing Group, which is resonsible for creating new web-based services. He managed the Connotea project from its inception, runs the site day-to-day, and oversees its continued development. Ben recently won the 2005 International Information Industry Young Acheiver Award, and Connotea itself won the 2005 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation. Prior to this, Ben worked on RSS and semantic web projects in NPG's New Technology team.