Todd Toler is the inaugural practice lead for AI in scholarly communication at Ithaka S+R, where he advises publishers, libraries, platforms, and funders on AI strategy and product architecture and works to develop shared approaches to the infrastructure challenges of the agent era—from provenance and rights signaling to common standards for evaluating whether AI tools meet scholarly integrity requirements. His work draws on Ithaka S+R’s distinctive ability to convene every side of the conversation around shared empirical research, the rare neutral ground that publishers and libraries both trust.

Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, Todd spent nearly two decades at Wiley, most recently as vice president of product and market strategy. There he led the development of rights-aware content infrastructure for AI applications, originated the Research Exchange journal platform now used by more than 1,300 journals, and co-founded GetFTR, the publishing industry’s shared entitlement signaling system. He has served on the boards of Crossref and CLOCKSS. Earlier in his career, he worked as a qualitative researcher leading usability and ethnographic studies, a research orientation he returns to in this role.

Todd earned a bachelor’s degree in Japan studies from the University of Washington and holds a master’s in educational communication and technology from New York University.