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Carolyn Kroll Reidy Carolyn Reidy was named President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Inc. in January 2008. In this role she is responsible for all the publishing and operations of Simon & Schuster’s numerous divisions, including Adult Publishing, Children’s Publishing, Audio, Simon & Schuster Digital, and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
Under her leadership, Simon & Schuster has taken an industry leading position in bringing its works to consumers using new digital formats and distribution capabilities, including ebooks and enhanced ebooks. Reidy has also led the company’s entry into several groundbreaking digital ventures with external partners, including the launch in February 2013 of Bookish, an industry-wide book discovery and marketing site, and the 2012 launch of Archway Publishing, a self-publishing service provider.
Reidy has also led the company’s expansion into new territories, with the founding in 2011 of Simon & Schuster India, while making numerous strategic moves that have added to its portfolio and insure its presence in every segment of the publishing marketplace. These publishing initiatives include the launch of Threshold Editions, which publishes for a conservative readership; Strebor Books, focusing on the African American market; the acquisition Howard Books, a Christian publishing company, and Beyond Words, which publishes books in the mind/body/spirit realm
Reidy first joined Simon & Schuster in 1992 as President of the Trade Divison, before being named President of the Adult Publishing Group in 2001. During her time with the company Simon & Schuster has published many acclaimed works, including books by Pulitzer Prize winners Doris Kearns Goodwin, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, Siddhartha Mukherjee; notable books by world figures, celebrities, newsmakers, memoirists and journalists including Glenn Beck, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dick Cheney, Jaycee Dugard, Walter Isaacson, Jeannette Walls and Bob Woodward; bestselling novelists Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Brad Thor and Jennifer Weiner; works of practical advice from authorities including David B. Agus, MD., Rhonda Byrne Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, and Dr. Mike Moreno; and bestselling children’s and teen authors including Cassandra Clare, Ian Falconer, Ellen Hopkins, Brandon Mull and Rachel Renee Russell. Numerous books published under her direction, including Walter Isaacson’s STEVE JOBS, Stephen King’s 11/22/63 and Rhonda Byrne’s THE SECRET have gone on to become not just publishing phenomenon as multi-million copy bestsellers but also achieved status as thought-provoking, world-wide cultural events.
Prior to Simon & Schuster, Reidy was President and Publisher of Avon Books, after having worked at William Morrow and Random House, where she was publisher of Vintage Books and Associate Publisher of the Random House imprint.
Reidy is on the Boards of Directors of the Association of American Publishers and the National Book Foundation. In 2007 Reidy was named one of “The 50 Women to Watch,” by the Wall Street Journal, and is a recipient of the Matrix Award from the New York Women in Communications. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Indiana University, where in 2011 she was recipient of the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She resides in New York City with her husband.
Jon Anderson was named Executive Vice President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division in January 2009.
Louise Burke Louise Burke was named Executive Vice President and Publisher of Gallery Books in September 2009. In her position she has responsibility for a publishing unit that includes the hardcover and trade paperback lines of Gallery Books; Pocket Books, the mass market publishing arm of Simon & Schuster; and Threshold Editions, the company’s conservative publishing imprint; and the Downtown Press, MTV Books, Star Trek, and WWE lines.
Ian Stewart Chapman Ian Stewart Chapman was named Managing Director and Chief Executive of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., the United Kingdom subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, Inc. in December 1999. In this position, Mr. Chapman has total responsibility for the publishing, editorial, marketing and sales functions of Simon & Schuster UK, publishing a full range of adult, children’s and audio titles in both printed and digital formats. The company currently publishes about [450] titles per year, of which thirty percent originate from the parent company.
Carolyn Connolly Carolyn Connolly was named Vice President, Human Resources for Simon & Schuster, Inc. in December 2007. Ms. Connolly is responsible for the human resource policies, administration, and organizational design of Simon & Schuster. In addition, Ms. Connolly is responsible for the company’s facilities management.
Stacy Creamer Stacy Creamer joined Touchstone Fireside as Vice President and Publisher in May 2009.
Judith Curr Judith Curr is currently Executive Vice President, Publisher and founder of Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. She is responsible for all the editorial and publishing activities of the imprint, which includes Washington Square Press, Strebor Books, Atria/Beyond Words, and Atria Books Español
Dennis Eulau Dennis Eulau was promoted to Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Financial Officer in October 2009. In his position, Mr. Eulau is responsible for all of Simon & Schuster’s financial operations, both domestic and international, including budgeting, forecasting, accounting, royalties, and risk management, corporate strategy and policy. Mr. Eulau also has oversight for the company’s book production, distribution and supply chain, and information systems and technology.
Kevin Hanson Kevin Hanson was named President of Simon & Schuster Canada in July 2005. Mr. Hanson is responsible for all of the sales, marketing, financial, and operations activities of Simon & Schuster Canada, the exclusive distributor in Canada of the book and audio products of both Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster U.K., as well as for Simon & Schuster’s roster of U.S. distribution clients.
Elinor Hirschhorn
Elinor “Ellie” Hirschhorn joined Simon & Schuster as executive vice president, chief digital officer in February 2008. Ms. Hirschhorn is responsible for the full scope of the company’s activities in the digital realm, including consumer-focused digital marketing leveraging cross title platforms, the company websites including SimonandSchuster.com, SimonandSchuster.net and SimonandSchuster.biz and corresponding international sites as well, electronic publishing including new products such as enhanced ebooks and apps, all mobile initiatives and strategy & business development.
Managing Director
Simon & Schuster Australia
Lou Johnson was named Managing Director of Simon & Schuster Australia, the Australian subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, Inc. in January 2010. She is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of Simon & Schuster titles as well as Simon & Schuster Australia’s distribution clients in the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Ms Johnson first joined Simon & Schuster as Sales & Marketing Director in July 2008. During her time at Simon & Schuster the company has executed numerous high-profile international publishing campaigns for a variety of bestselling authors, including Philippa Gregory’s THE WHITE QUEEN, Patrick Swayze’s memoir THE TIME OF MY LIFE, Jackie Collins, Lynda LaPlante, Tom Rob Smith, and bestselling young adult author and first novelist Becca Fitzpatrick’s HUSH, HUSH
Ms Johnson began her publishing career in the sales department of Harper Collins in 1991. From there she moved to ABC Enterprises – the commercial arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - before returning to publishing as National Sales Manager at Random House Australia in 1995, and served on the transition team in the merger of Random House Australia and Transworld Australia following the Random House purchase by Bertelsmann. . Ms Johnson also served as Head of Sales, Head of Sales & Marketing for the Random House Division and Head of Marketing for the overall business.
In 2001 Ms. Johnson joined Allen & Unwin as Sales Director and was a part of the company during a period of major growth, which included the Australian launch of the final three “Harry Potter” titles.
Ms Johnson was born in Victoria, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Literature and Drama from Macquarie University. She lives on the North Shore of Sydney with her husband and two daughters.
Executive Vice President and Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Karp was named Executive Vice President and Publisher of Simon & Schusterin June 2010. He is responsible for the editorial and publishing activities of the imprint.
Mr. Karp was previously Publisher and Editor in Chief of Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, which he founded in 2005. At Twelve, Mr. Karp published numerous highly-acclaimed bestselling works, including TRUE COMPASS by the late Edward M. Kennedy, GOD IS NOT GREAT by Christopher Hitchens, SUPREME COURTSHIP and LOSING MUM AND PUP by Christopher Buckley, COLUMBINE by Dave Cullen, NURTURESHOCK by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman and WAR by Sebastian Junger.
Prior to founding Twelve, Mr. Karp was Editor in Chief of Random House, where he began his publishing career in 1989 as an editorial assistant and worked for sixteen years. At Random House, Mr. Karp acquired and edited an eclectic and diverse list of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles including SEABISCUIT by Laura Hillenbrand, SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson, WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? by Po Bronson, FAITH OF MY FATHERS by John McCain and Mark Salter, FRANKLIN AND WINSTON by Jon Meacham, THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean, THE LAST DON by Mario Puzo and THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl.
He has also edited fiction by award-winning writers Steven Bochco, Elizabeth Frank, Neil Gordon, Rupert Holmes, C.J. Hribal, David Ignatius, and David Liss; and acclaimed works of nonfiction by Henry Alford, Marcia Angell, Buzz Bissinger, Alex Berenson, Joel Glenn Brenner, Vicki Constantine Croke, Gregg Easterbrook, David Frum, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, John Harris, Miles Harvey, Constance Hays, Donald Katz, David Kushner, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Eric Liu, Jeffrey Rosen, David Plotz, Kenneth Pollack, Gary Rivlin, Jim Rogers, Ron Rosenbaum, Jonathan Schwartz, Mike Stanton, Kara Swisher, John Taylor, Andrew Tobias, Juan Williams, and Mitchell Zuckoff.
Mr. Karp is a graduate of Brown University, and lives in Manhattan.
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch was named executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio in October 2003. In this position, Mr. Lynch has overall responsibility for acquisition, production, marketing and licensing activities on behalf of the division’s many titles and product lines, including the company’s fast growing Pimsleur Language Program.
Jonathan Merkh, Under Mr. Merkh’s direction, the imprint has published numerous bestsellers including the #1 New York Times bestseller ENTRELEADERSHIP by Dave Ramsey, BLIND ALLEGIANCE TO SARAH PALIN by Frank Bailey, AN INVISIBLE THREAD by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski, and acquired numerous high-profile and bestselling authors including Karen Kingsbury, Debbie Macomber, Frank Peretti and Brad Paisley. Mr. Merkh also supervised the relocation of Howard Books to Nashville. He previously served as the Senior Vice President and Publisher of the Nelson Books division at Thomas Nelson Publishers, during which time he also launched the Nelson Business imprint. Under his leadership, the Nelson Books division published more than twenty New York Times bestsellers, including Robin McGraw’s Inside My Heart, Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover, and Dr. John C. Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Mr. Merkh has also held positions in editorial, ministry, agenting and sales in leading companies including the William Morris Agency, and Guideposts. Mr. Merkh received a Bachelor of Arts from Free Will Baptist College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Susan Moldow Susan Moldow, Executive Vice President and Publisher of Scribner, has been the imprint’s publisher since May 1994.
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Liz Perl joined Simon & Schuster in 2008 as Senior Vice President, Marketing. Her responsibilities encompass traditional and digital marketing, advertising, promotion, library and educational marketing on behalf of all of Simon & Schuster’s adult and children’s imprints.
Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Ms. Perl served as Vice President and Publisher of Rodale Books and Rodale International, and as Director of Rodale DVD. During her time at Rodale, Ms. Perl published more than 20 New York Times bestsellers, including, The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim, LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout and An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. She also created branded book programs for successful franchises such as The Biggest Loser, The Abs Diet and Eat This, Not That.
Ms. Perl worked at Penguin Group (USA), from 1994 through 2005. She began her career with Penguin as Executive Director of Publicity for a number of imprints, and then served as Vice President, Director of Marketing for a broad variety of trade paper imprints and Associate Publisher for Riverhead, Perigee, and HP Books. There she worked with bestselling authors including Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby and Nora Roberts. Prior to Penguin, Ms. Perl was Director of Publicity for Avon Books and Publicity Manager at HarperCollins.
Ms. Perl received a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984. She divides her time between New York City and Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.
Michael Selleck
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Michael Selleck was named Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Simon & Schuster, Inc. in September 2007. Mr. Selleck is responsible for the overall operations for the Simon & Schuster Sales and Distribution division, including its international companies in Canada and Australia, and acts as chief marketing strategist providing direction and guidance to all domestic Simon & Schuster divisions. Mr. Selleck first joined Simon & Schuster in 1984, and held positions in sales and operations before becoming Vice President, Director of Operations. In 1992, he joined the company’s Trade Sales Division as Vice President, Director of National Accounts. Mr. Selleck became Vice President, Director of Marketing in 1994, Vice President, Executive Director of Marketing in 1999, and in 2005 was named Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Marketing for Simon & Schuster’s Adult Publishing Division. Prior to joining S&S, Mr. Selleck held positions at Waldenbooks as a bookseller, buyer and merchandise manager. Mr. Selleck is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University. He lives in New York City.
David Hillman was named Executive Vice President and General Counsel in April 2012. In his position he has responsibility for all legal affairs for Simon & Schuster and its worldwide companies, including contracts, intellectual property management, litigation, trade issues, compliance and corporate governance, and legal strategies for the transition to digital publishing. Prior to joining S&S, Mr. Hillman was the Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Business Affairs for Dial Global (formerly known as Westwood One), a leading national radio network. He joined Westwood One in 2000, was promoted to Senior Vice President & General Counsel in 2004, and in a succession of legal and management positions of increasing responsibility played a key role in the Company’s strategic and operational initiatives (including mergers and acquisitions), programming and content partnerships and labor relations. He also served as Corporate Secretary to the Board of Directors of the publicly-traded company. Prior to joining Westwood One, Mr. Hillman held positions with the law firms of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and Epstein Becker & Green. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and of Fordham University School of Law. He lives in New York City.
Adam Rothberg was named Vice President, Director of Corporate Communications in January 1999. He is responsible for managing both internal communications and external media relations for the entire range of Simon & Schuster’s world wide operations.
He is a 1981 graduate of Columbia College in New York City. He has served as a on the publishing committee of the Goddard-Riverside New York Book Fair and is formerly a member of board of directors of the Publishers Publicity Association, and is currently a Trustee of the Croton Free Library.
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