Executive Staff

David Brown General Manager Dialog DataStar

David Brown is general manager of the Dialog DataStar business unit of Dialog, which is responsible for all business for the Dialog® and Dialog DataStar® product platforms. Dialog DataStar is an aggregator of information, specializing in scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data, which it offers through the Dialog and Dialog DataStar brands.

With 17 years of experience in the industry and with Dialog, in recent roles David has served as senior vice president of the Dialog Strategic Accounts Group and senior vice president of content development, as well as in leadership positions in both marketing and sales capacities. His 1988 start in the Academic Programs Department led to various direct sales roles. Sales management posts followed with roles of increasing responsibility, including director of government services, director of the mid-Atlantic region and vice president of sales for professional services.

David holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina and two bachelor's degrees from the University of Notre Dame.

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Roger K. Summit Chairman Emeritus

Dr. Roger K. Summit is the founder and chairman emeritus of Dialog. An expert in information systems design, Roger conducted pioneering work beginning in 1962 while at the Lockheed Corporation that led to the creation of Dialog, the first-of-its-kind online information retrieval system. Under Roger’s direction, various versions of Dialog, called RECON, were installed in the 1960s for such government agencies as NASA, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the European Space Research Organization (now the European Space Agency). Dialog is associated with several "firsts" in information retrieval milestones:

• The first national network of terminals involving a large-scale database in 1967, via several NASA facilities accessing the NASA database of 400,000 aerospace citations.
  
  
• The first trans-European information retrieval network in 1969 operated by the European Space Research Organization.
  
  
• The first extensive nationwide application of a non-defense related online information retrieval service in 1969 offering the ERIC database (educational materials) to teachers and researchers via several centers around the country.

Following the commercial launch of Dialog in 1972, Roger held positions as manager, director, and president and chief executive officer of the business. He has also held respected positions on national and international advisory boards and in professional associations, and has received numerous awards. Roger has published over 100 papers and journal articles based on his knowledge of and experience with online information services.

In addition to his 40 years of involvement with Dialog, Roger has also served as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy (1952–1955), an associate professor in the Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University (1963–1965), a visiting professor at Chico State College in Chico, Calif. (1980, 1984), and as a lecturer at both Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif. (1984) and the University of Michigan (1990, 1991). He is widely published and spoken of in the field of information sciences, and has been a member of several national committees dealing with information policy.

Roger holds a doctorate in management science, a master’s in business administration and a bachelor’s in psychology, all from Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.

For a detailed biography, including samples of articles published by and about Dr. Summit, please view his professional biography.