As the vice president of product management for Gale’s academic segment, Phil Faust leads Gale’s higher education product management and publishing teams to create solutions that address the needs of students, faculty, and librarians. In close partnership with customers and users, these teams develop innovative resources and intuitive software applications that maximize discovery, analysis and application of Gale’s content to support academic success at all stages of research and instruction. Prior to his 11 years with Gale, Phil held roles in higher ed custom course material publishing and at ProQuest.