Molecular Connections announced the appointment of Dr John Regazzi as Advisor to Board of Directors. In this new role, Dr Regazzi would assist the company to develop its access, content and information business.

Currently, he serves as a full professor and past dean in the College of Information and Computer Science, at Long Island University. Recently, he was also appointed as president and CEO at Elsevier Inc and plays the role of managing director in market development.

According to Jignesh Bhate, CEO Molecular Connections, "Dr Regazzi brings with him significant experience in the publishing world and our company would benefit from his in-depth knowledge and vast network in the industry."

Molecular Connections provides new solutions to information providers looking to add increasing value to their content and access services, said Dr Regazzi.

Since 2001, Molecular Connections has been serving the life-sciences and the STM publishing industry with various products and services like customized database development, indexing, ontology development, developing search interfaces . It bagged the eighth fastest growing company award (Deloitte and Touché) and the CNBC- ICICI 'Most Promising Enterprise' and the 'Best Enterprise in its Category' award in 2008.