Because of the addition of Perseus Book Group's publishing operations and "recent major changes in the retail/wholesale landscape," Hachette Book Group has reorganized its sales organization. These changes, the publisher said, "will allow us to sell HBG's wide range of excellent books in the most effective ways, across the entire range of formats, retail accounts, wholesalers, libraries, and jobbers."
The reorganization includes the addition of four Perseus Sales people:
Adam Schnitzer, executive director, online and digital sales and publisher liaison for all Perseus imprints, will oversee sales of all Perseus titles, physical and digital, to Amazon.
Marty Gosser, national account manager, will sell all Perseus titles to Barnes & Noble and B&N College.
Laura Shepherd, national account manager, will sell Perseus titles to Ingram, Baker & Taylor and Brodart.
Andrea Gochnauer, assistant national account manager, will sell to Amazon and assist Adam Schnitzer.
Several people are leaving the company:
Mike Heuer's position as executive director of field sales is being eliminated, and he will leave the company, effective August 1. He has been a part of the sales team for 20 years.
Maha Khalil, v-p, national accounts, and James Chan, national account manager, will leave the company at the end of the year.
Other promotions and hires as a result of the reorganization:
Digital and Online Sales: Ali Coughlin is promoted to director of online sales and will continue to handle physical and digital sales to Amazon.
Field/Independent Bookstore Sales: Elizabeth Guess is promoted to East Coast sales rep, and Lily Goldman is promoted to telephone sales rep/account marketing manager.
Client Services: the team has added Laura Fernandez as coordinator working on Hachette UK titles.
Special Markets: Sharon Huerta, formerly director of Canadian sales, is promoted to executive director of special sales, and Teuta Bakalli, who will be promoted to special sales coordinator.
Hachette plans to hire an international sales director; a sales manager in the Canadian office to replace Sharon Huerta; and a sales analyst.
