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Seale Ballenger has been named Publicity Director for Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW); he will be working out of New York and begins July 8. He was most recently Director of Marketing and Publicity at Zola Books.
Meanwhile, Russell Hampton, President of DPW until May 2012, has joined NBC Universal in the new position of EVP of Franchise Management and Global Consumer Products for the Media Innovation and Cross Company Initiatives Group.
Nicole Russo has been hired as Director, Children’s Marketing and Publicity for Abrams Children’s, Amulet, and Appleseed. Previously she was Deputy Director of Publicity at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Also at Abrams, Paul Colarusso has been named Marketing Manager for adult trade. Previously he was a Marketing Manager at the Aperture Foundation.
Bryan Christian has been named Brand Manager at Time Inc. He was most recently Senior Marketing Manager, Hyperion Books, Disney ABC-Television Group. (For other Hyperion news, see below.)
Oui Wong has been named the new Finance Director of Rodale Books. She was most recently Business Manager at Knopf.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Ira Silverberg, Director of Literature Programs, will leave the agency and return to New York City. His departure is effective July 11th with Amy Stolls, Literature Program Officer, becoming the acting Director of Literature until a new director is in place.
Cengage Learning announced the appointment of Sandi Kirshner as Chief Marketing Officer. She joined Cengage from Pearson, where she was most recently Executive Vice President for Higher Education Policy and a member of the Higher Education Executive Committee.
At Twelve, Paul Samuelson has been named Publicity Manager, having previously served as Senior Publicist at Random House Children’s Books.
Stephanie Kim, former Public Relations Coordinator at Hulu, has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Senior Publicist.
PROMOTIONS/DULY NOTED
July 1st heralded many changes for major publishers, including the sale of Hyperion to Hachette, the official merger of Random House and Penguin, and the first day of the split within HarperCollins between News Corp and 21st Century Fox.
In the sale of Hyperion to Hachette, PW reports that some Hyperion employees are expected to join HBG in such areas as editorial and publicity. Other Hyperion employees will be given the opportunity to interview for other positions at Disney. But Publishing Trends has learned that several employees will stay through the transition, which is expected to be completed in October.
With the merger between Random House and Penguin complete, CEO Markus Dohle has announced many new appointments within the company:
Coram Williams, previously CFO for the Penguin Group, also serves in a dual capacity as Chief Financial Officer for Penguin Random House, in the U.S. and worldwide. In the U.S., Coram will also oversee Random House Studio, corporate services, and Author Solutions.
David Shanks has stepped down as CEO, Penguin Group (USA), and is now Senior Executive Advisor to Marcus Dohle and the U.S. executive team. Madeline McIntosh, formerly Chief Operating Officer, Random House (USA), is now President and Chief Operating Officer of Penguin Random House in the U.S., overseeing sales, operations, fulfillment, IT, and digital company-wide.
Also in the U.S., Kathy Trager is named Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Penguin Random House.
A press release with additional appointments can be found here.
Brian Dauphin, Senior VP of Ingram Content Group, has been named the company’s Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Frank Kerrigan. Dauphin joined Ingram in 1999 as Controller for its Lightning Source division and is currently Senior VP for the unit. Read More »
