President

Kevin M. Guthrie is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in high technology and not-for-profit management.  As founding president of Ithaka, Kevin has overseen the development of an organization that incubates three major initiatives, provides research and strategic services to the higher education community, and provides administrative services to four organizations.  Ithaka was launched in January 2004 and has offices in New York, NY, Princeton, NJ, and Ann Arbor, MI.

Prior to starting Ithaka, Kevin was president of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to preserve and provide access to a trusted archive of the backfiles of important scholarly journals.  Kevin was JSTOR’s first employee, and oversaw its growth from start-up to an organization that, by mid-2003, employed 70 staff and generated annual revenues of approximately $20 million.  He continues to be involved in JSTOR, where he chairs the Board of Trustees.  JSTOR now serves over 3,000 participating libraries in more than 110 countries around the world.

Previously Kevin started his own software development company and served as a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New-York Historical Society:  Lessons from One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival (Jossey Bass).  His diverse background also includes experience in professional sports, broadcasting and the film industry.   Kevin serves on the board of ARTstor and Ithaka, in addition to that of JSTOR, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars addressing the impact of advances in information technology on higher education.

Kevin holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University.