WCET's 28th Annual Meeting
 


Title
Vice President of Product Strategy
Company
VitalSource
Bio
Rick Johnson is the vice president of product strategy, and one of the founders of Vital Source Technologies, Inc. Vital Source, a division of the Ingram Content Group, is the maker of Bookshelf®, the most widely used platform for delivery of electronic textbooks in the world. Johnson manages the strategic direction of the fast growing platform, guiding the architecture, and implementation of its clients and systems. Prior to Ingram and Vital Source, he spent more than 12 years with Apple Computer, Inc. As a senior national consulting engineer for them he was instrumental in the implementation of complex solutions for many higher education and corporate customers, and received numerous national and international awards. A graduate of the communication and business departments of Biola University in 1984, he has lived in the Phoenix area with his family since they moved from Southern California in 1991.