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Mendeley Tried to Reinvent Research. Its Best Trick Was Fixing the Bibliography.
The London startup wanted to map the world’s scientific reading. Nineteen years, one controversial sale and several retired products later, Mendeley has learned that researchers mostly want their PDFs tidy and their citations correct.
Fernando Bleichmar
Fernando Bleichmar is the CEO of Risepoint, the online program management company formerly known as Academic Partnerships, which helps regional universities build and grow online degree programs for working adults. He joined in 2022 after running the U.S. higher education business at Cengage, serving on the leadership team at Elsevier Health Sciences, and spending his first decade in strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group. The son of educators who founded a school in Mexico City, he frames the company's work around closing the access and affordability gap in American higher education.