PEOPLE David Wan will retire as CEO of Harvard Business Publishing this June, having led the publisher since 2002. SVP and Chief Product Innovation Officer Josh Macht will take over as Acting CEO until a permanent successor is found. Effective March 8, Mary Marotta will join Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as SVP, Group Sales Director….Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Grand Central, Colin Dickerman will join as VP, Editorial Director, Nonfiction on January 19. Most recently he was Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. As part of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s restructuring, the New York office will close at the end of 2020. As a result, VP, English-Language Markets Thomas Minkus will…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Nan A. Talese will retire from her position as President, Publisher, and Editorial Director of her own imprint at Doubleday at the end of the year. She joined Random House in 1959 as a copywriter and went on to found the Nan. A Talese imprint in 1990. Elsewhere at PRH, Comedian Phoebe Robinson is…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Lisa Lucas will become the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation in Mid-March, taking over for Harold Augenbraum. She is the Publisher of Guernica magazine and a nonfiction co-chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival. Mary Ann Naples will become VP, Publisher at Disney Book Group in Mid-March. She was previously SVP, Publisher at…Continue Reading
