People Round-Up, Mid-March 2016

PEOPLE

Andrew Smith is now SVP, Children’s Publisher at Abrams. He was most recently SVP, Deputy Publisher at Hachette’s Children. Abrams Publisher Susan Van Metre will transition to VP, Editor-in-Chief, Children’s Books and Editorial Director of Amulet, reporting to Smith.

Annette Thomas will leave her position as Chief Science Officer and Board Member at Springer Nature (the name given to the merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Macmillan Science and Education). Managing Director of Nature Research Group Steven Inchcoombe will join the board in her place and assume a broader role at the company.

Joseph P. Abbott, Jr. became CFO at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Eric Shuman retired. Abbott was previously an Investment Banker with Morgan Stanley’s Global Media and Communications Group. Shuman will act as an advisor until July.

Andrew Savikas has left his position as CEO of Safari Books Online after 5 years. The role is being eliminated now that O’Reilly is fulling integrating Safari with its other operations.

Steve Rosato left his role as Event Director at Reed Exhibitions after 18 years. Director, Publisher & Studio Relations Brien McDonald will take over Rosato’s responsibilities.

Kathy Huck left her position as Senior Editor at North Star Way. She can be reached at khuck@nyc.rr.com.

Rhoda Belleza joined Macmillan as Editor. She was Editor at Paper Lantern Lit.

Renee Zuckerbrot will join Lippincott Massie McQuilkin at the end of April after running her own agency for more than 10 years.

Sarah Branham launched boutique editorial services company Sarah Branham Editorial. She was formerly Senior Editor at Atria Books.

Micah Kleit will become Director at Rutgers University Press at the beginning of May, succeeding Marlie Wasserman who is leaving the press after more than 20 years. Kleit was previously Editor-in-Chief at Temple University Press.

PROMOTIONS

Hachette Book Group announced a number of promotions. Tina McIntyre is now Senior Executive Director of Hachette’s content development team, moving over from Little, Brown Children’s. Additionally at Little, Brown, Elizabeth Garriga was promoted to Director of Publicity, Meghan Deans to Director of Social Media, Lisa Erickson to Associate Marketing Director, and Paul Brown to Associate Marketing Director at Little, Brown and Director of Publicity at Mulholland. Sabrina Callahan was promoted to Director of Publicity at Mulholland and Josh Kendall to VP, Editorial Director at Mulholland and Executive Editor at Little, Brown. At Grand Central Publishing, Nick Small is now Associate Director of Publicity for Life & Style, Libby Burton moved up to Editor at Twelve Books and Megha Parekh to Editor at Forever. Joseph Benincase was promoted to Digital Marketing Manager. Elizabeth Turner was promoted to Art Director and Lisa Honerkamp to Assistant Art Director/Senior Studio Manager.

Ecco promoted Ben Tomek to Associate Marketing Director. HarperOne promoted Hilary Lawson to Editor.

Electric Literature named Halimah Marcus its first Executive Director. She will continue as Editor-in-Chief of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading.

Michael Haggen was promoted to Chief Academic Officer at Scholastic Education.

Betina Cochran was promoted to Director, Licensing & Special Markets for the Retail Market at Highlights for Children.

PGW promoted Abbey Phalen to Marketing and Business Development Manager.