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| Heather Fain | |
After 20 years at Hachette Book Group, currently as senior v-p, director of marketing strategy, Heather Fain is leaving to become chief marketing officer at Pushkin Industries, the podcast company recently launched by Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell. The move is effective November 30.
Her first job out of college was in the Warner Books publicity department, in 1996. Five years later, she joined Little, Brown's publicity department, then rose to director of publicity, marketing director, and deputy publisher. She assumed her present job in 2015.
In a memo to staff, Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch wrote in part that throughout her career, Fain "has demonstrated a remarkable set of skills. She is determined and focused. She plans well, communicates clearly, and follows through. She is unafraid to have difficult conversations forthrightly. And she is delightful to work with. She brings joy to her work and celebrates accomplishments large and small. Her daughter Merrill is a larger-than-life presence to many of us thanks to Heather's unabashed pride in her family. She has been a great colleague, a mentor, and a leader, and we are going to miss her very much. Fortunately she leaves us with a strong D2C marketing foundation and a highly skilled and forward-thinking team of marketing Fain specialists."