People Round-Up, Mid-December 2015

PEOPLE

Ellen Archer was named President of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Publishing, taking over for Gary Gentel, who is retiring in 2016. Archer was most recently President and Publisher at Hyperion.

Ben Greenberg will join Random House as Executive Editor in 2016. He was Executive Editor at Grand Central.

William Wood joined Barnes & Noble as CIO. He was CIO of EZCORP previously.

Matt Baldacci joined Shelf Awareness as Director of Business Development. He was most recently VP, Trade Marketing at Scholastic.

Jamie Levine will become Publisher at Diversion Books in 2016. She was formerly Executive Editor at Grand Central and Thomas Dunne Books.

Founder and CEO of Chicago Review Press Curt Matthews will retire at the end of the year. Independent Publishers Group COO Joe Matthews will take over as CEO. Matthews will stay on as Board Chairman.

Paul Taylor is now VP, Sales at Verso. He was previously VP, Educational Services and Sales at Shmoop.

Elizabeth Schaefer joined Del Rey as Senior Editor. She was previously Editor at Scholastic.

At Bloomsbury USA, Allison Hollett is now Senior Director, Marketing and Sales, Special Interest and Osprey. She was VP, Sales and Marketing for North America at Osprey Publishing. Additionally, Rachel Ewen joined as Special Interest Marketing Manager. She was Senior Media Associate at Cambridge University Press. Margaret Michniewicz joined Bloomsbury Academic as Acquisitions Editor. She was Commissioning Editor at Ashgate.

Lindsay Walter-Greaney joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Associate Managing Editor. She was most recently Senior Production Editor at Scholastic.

Katie Benezra joined Abrams as Associate Art Director. She was previously Senior Designer at Klutz.

Jackie Burke joined Algonquin Books as Senior Publicist.

At Sourcebooks, Christina Rapacchietta joined as Ecommerce Marketing Coordinator, Molly Fletcher as Ecommerce Marketing Coordinator, and Janna Barrett as Graphic Designer for the Casablanca imprint.

Nell Casey joined Catapult as Books Editor-at-Large. She is a Founder of Stories at the Moth.

Kent Hendricks joined Zondervan Academics as Marketing Director, Online Learning. He was most recently Product Promotion Lead at Faithlife.

Kristin Kulsavage joined Glitterati Incorporated as Editor. She was previously Editor at Skyhorse Publishing.

PROMOTIONS

Jocelyn Schmidt was promoted to VP, Associate Publisher of Penguin Children’s, reporting to Jen Loja, newly appointed President of the group.

HarperCollins US SVP, International Sales David Wolfson will assume the additional role of Open Market Leader for HarperCollins US and HarperCollins UK.

Flatiron Books promoted Whitney Frick to Executive Editor, taking on the responsibility of liaison for the new Oprah Winfrey imprint.

Algonquin promoted Brooke Csuka to Publicist, Lauren Moseley to Marketing Manager, and Krestyna Lypen to Editor of Algonquin Young Readers.

Insight Editions promoted Lauren Kretzschmar to Publicist.

Thompson Literary Agency promoted Cindy Uh to Senior Agent.