Gender Male
Tim Collins is the Founder and CEO of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), which is the largest division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. EBSCO Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in the United States. As its largest division, EBSCO Information Services has more than 3,250 employees and annual sales of more than two billion dollars.
In 1983, Mr. Collins co-founded a company specializing in indexing and abstracting of periodical information, which was subsequently purchased by EBSCO Industries, Inc. He has overseen the explosive growth that has taken EBSCO from a niche provider of print indexes in the 1980s to what it is today — one of the world’s most important for-fee Internet research services. He has guided the company to very strong organic growth, combined with a steady stream of more than 60 strategic acquisitions. EBSCO Information Services is now the leading online research service for educational institutions and public libraries, offering the most-used databases in the world. Over the last several years, EBSCO has expanded its product offerings and is now a leading e-book aggregator, a discovery service provider, a point-of-care content provider to medical institutions, and the largest provider of collection development and purchasing services for books for academic libraries.
