Eileen Fenton oversees ITHAKA’s technology services and content management units and is also Managing Director of Portico. She has led Portico since its founding as a new initiative in 2002. Since that time, thousands of e-journals and e-books have been preserved, and 657 libraries and more than 90 publishers representing over 2,800 scholarly associations have committed to supporting their long-term preservation.

Previously Eileen was Director of Production for JSTOR, another service of ITHAKA, where she oversaw the addition of more than thirteen million pages to the archival collections. She has also worked in various positions at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries. Eileen is a librarian and earned her Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.

Eileen is a member of the Society of American Archivists and American Library Association, and served on the advisory board for the LIFE Project. She regularly speaks at industry events and has authored numerous articles and presentations on digital preservation.