COO Robert (Bob) Marsh has been promoted to president of the Globe Pequot Publishing Group. He succeeds Jed Lyons, who remains chairman and CEO. Judith Schnell continues in her role as publisher of Globe Pequot.
Marsh's 25-year book publishing career includes senior positions at Morehouse Publishing, Continuum, Bloomsbury, and, for the last 12 years, as the COO of Rowman & Littlefield. (Rowman & Littlefield was sold last year to Bloomsbury, and the company is now focused on trade publishing at Globe Pequot.)
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Jacqueline Sells is joining Ingram Content Group as v-p of sales and business development, international, and will be commercial leader for Lightning Source UK and Lightning Source outside North America. Sells has served as sales director of DK UK and earlier held leadership positions at Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press, and Scholastic. Sells takes over her new role at Ingram in August from David Taylor who has held the position since 2003 and is retiring in June.
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Claire Gamble has joined Simon & Schuster as a national account manager selling to Amazon. She was previously part of the digital & online sales team at Hachette Book Group.
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Isabela Alvarez has joined Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree as sales assistant, Amazon. Alvarez previously worked as a freelance editor and beta reader.