A legal publisher, Shane Marmion is president of William S. Hein & Co., the world’s largest legal periodical distributor, providing tools for research in law, political science, and international relations. At Hein, Shane has led engineering efforts to modernize the HeinOnline platform. Shane was influential in organizing more than 8,000 profiles for professors to connect legal authors with articles and to allow researchers to find similar authors. Shane served the company as Vice President of Product Development beginning in 1996. He has worked to bring co-authors together through ranking metrics, and has had a hand in producing many new features for the company’s database, which is used in law libraries and academic institutions worldwide.