Dione Mentis is the COO and Senior Architect at Coko Foundation where she works with organisations to design and build open-source publishing platforms, and manages the business operations. Prior to joining Coko Dione worked as the publishing manager at Electric Book Works, a bespoke publishing studio, where she developed her expertise in digital-first, multi-format book production, working on large-scale book productions for clients global. She has extensive experience in the South African educational publishing industry having worked as an independent consultant to various publishers and in-house at Pearson as a content specialist and managing editor.