Phil McHale has over 45 years’ experience working with R&D cheminformatics systems, both as a user in the pharmaceutical industry and as a producer with software and content companies. His career includes editorial work at the Chemical Society in London; managing chemical information services at Wellcome; and online project manager for Pergamon Infoline. He joined MDL in California in 1988 and directed product management for MDL’s content, application and technology products. In 1994 he moved to Derwent Information and rejoined MDL in 1996, where he held senior positions in product marketing management until Symyx acquired MDL in 2007. He moved to CambridgeSoft Corporation (later acquired by PerkinElmer) where he was product manager for chemistry informatics products including ChemDraw. He retired from PerkinElmer in 2015 and is now consulting, offering content creation services. Phil has M.A. and D. Phil degrees in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a trustee with the Chemical Association Trust.