Management Team

Irina Golfman, President

Irina Golfman, President of Inera Incorporated, has 20 years of experience in the software industry. She has worked on structured document management projects since 1986. Ms. Golfman founded Inera in 1992. Under her guidance, Inera has successfully completed SGML- and XML-based projects for clients in the printing, publishing, manufacturing, computer, and financial services industries.

Before founding Inera, Ms. Golfman was Director of Commercial Product Development for Kurzweil Computer Products, a division of Xerox, where she managed the design and development of commercial OCR products for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix. Prior to this, Ms. Golfman held software development positions at Wang Laboratories, Linkware, Codex Corporation, and Prime Computer.

Bruce Rosenblum, CEO

Bruce Rosenblum, CEO of Inera Incorporated, has more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing electronic publishing solutions. During that time, he has developed a wide range of document processing systems. He heads up all software development activities at Inera, including the design and development of eXtyles. He also consults on the application of XML in publishing and the design of electronic production workflows. He co-authored the NLM journal and archive DTDs and developed the CrossRef Metadata Deposit Schema.

Prior to joining Inera in 1997, Mr. Rosenblum was Vice President of Software Development at Turning Point Software, where he led the design and development of commercial software products for companies such as Microsoft and Word Perfect. Before joining Turning Point in 1984, Mr. Rosenblum designed and developed word processing and typesetting systems for Chinese and the languages of South Asia.

Mr. Rosenblum has spoken at the Council of Science Editors, Society for Scholarly Publishing, NISO Metadata Workshop, Extreme Markup, and STM International. He also serves on the NISO Board of Directors.

Elizabeth Blake, Senior Product Manager

Elizabeth Blake joined Inera in 2002. Before joining Inera, Ms. Blake was a Manuscript Editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as a member of NEJM's Electronic Editing Task Force, which focused on the journal's transition from a paper to an electronic workflow. Prior to this, she was a Copyeditor and then the Managing Editor of Neuron, the neuroscience journal published by Cell Press. During her time at Cell, Ms. Blake was one of the original beta testers of eXtyles.

Ms. Blake has spoken at the Council of Science Editors annual meeting and has over 10 years of experience in journal publishing. With her extensive editorial and production expertise, she helps to ensure that eXtyles is customized and deployed to optimally meet each organization's requirements.