Tag Archives: Aladdin

People Round-Up, Mid-November 2020

PEOPLE Molly Stern, formerly Publisher of Crown, is starting a new publishing company, Zando, and will serve as Chief Executive. The venture’s first books will be published in Fall 2021. Alexander Czik, has been named Director of Operations and Strategy.  He was most recently Associate, Group Strategy and M&A at Macmillan. Penguin Random House is…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-June 2020

PEOPLE Jonathan Karp has been named President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, succeeding Carolyn Reidy, who died suddenly on May 12. Karp had been President and Publisher, Adult Publishing. As the result of reorganization at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Mara Anastas, VP and Publisher of Aladdin and Simon Pulse, will depart after over…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-January 2020

PEOPLE At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Millicent Bennett joins as Editorial Director. She had been Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. Sarah Pelz joins as Executive Editor, having previously held that title at Atria. George Coe, former CEO and President of Baker & Taylor, will return to Brodart Co. as President and CEO. At Crown, Libby…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early November 2019

PEOPLE Anne Messitte, EVP at Knopf Doubleday and Vintage/Anchor, will depart the company in December “amid a company restructuring,” reports the AP. Suzanne Herz, EVP, Executive Director of Publishing at Doubleday, will expand her role to succeed Messitte as Publisher of Vintage/Anchor. At Penguin Books, Kathryn Court, who has served as President and Publisher since…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early March 2019

PEOPLE Effective March 25, Wibke Grütjen, formerly VP, Digital Marketing at Macmillan, joins Hachette Book Group as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer. In other company news, Samantha Gentry, previously Associate Editor at Crown Books for Young Readers, has joined as Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Editor. Following the restructuring of Macmillan’s sales team, Jeff…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-December 2018

PEOPLE As a consequence of October’s merger of Crown Publishing Group and Random House, Molly Stern, SVP and Publisher, is departing her position. EVP and Deputy Publisher David Drake will replace her. Gillian Blake, previously Editor-in-Chief at Henry Holt, will join as SVP and Editor-in-Chief of Crown Trade. Elsewhere in the company…Katie Ziga will move…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-May 2018

PEOPLE Kristin Cochrane will take over as CEO of Random House Canada following the retirement of Brad Martin on June 30. Martin has been CEO since 2007. At Lonely Planet, CEO Daniel Houghton has stepped down. He will become CEO of marketing agency Pyxl. Brant Rumble has joined Hachette Books as Executive Editor. He was…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early May 2018

PEOPLE Jennifer Levesque joins Disney Book Group as Editorial Director on May 7. Most recently she was VP, Editorial Director at Rodale Books. Jhanteigh Kupihea will join Quirk Books as Editorial Director on May 21. She was most recently Senior Editor at Atria Books. At IDW Publishing, Anita Frazier joins as SVP, Sales & Marketing….Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early April 2018

PEOPLE Judith Curr has joined HarperCollins in the newly-created role of President and Publisher of HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo. She was, until January, the President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Atria Publishing Group. Aimee Bell will join Gallery Books as VP, Editorial Director on April 17; she had been the longtime Deputy Editor at…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-November 2017

PEOPLE John Kulka has been named Editorial Director at Library of America, replacing the retiring Geoffrey O’Brien. Kulka was most recently Executive Editor at Basic Books. In addition, Leslie Schwartz is now Publicity Manager, having worked previously as Associate Director of Marketing for New American Library. Radhika Jones has been selected as the next Editor-in-Chief…Continue Reading