The senior team |
Bloomsbury Adult (MD: Richard Charkin) |
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Alexandra Pringle - Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Adult Books. She began her career in publishing at Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the famous Virago Modern Classics series. In 1984 she was made Editorial Director, later becoming part of the management team to steer Virago through their management buy-out from Cape, Chatto & Bodley Head. In 1990 she joined Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent with Toby Eady Associates. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Donna Tartt, Barbara Trapido, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, William Boyd, Ronan Bennett and Susanna Clarke. She is a Director of the Management Board, Bloomsbury Book Publishing Company Limited which also includes the Plc Directors. |
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Janet Murphy - Editorial
Director joined A&C Black in 1990 when the Adlard
Coles list was acquired and combined with Nautical Books.
She had been Adlard Coles Editor at Harper Collins since
1986 and before that was with Pitman Publishing and Granada
Publishing. She was appointed to the board of A&C Black
Publishing Ltd in 1992. |
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Bloomsbury Childrens & Educational (MD: Emma Hopkin) |
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Emma Hopkin is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Children's and Educational Publishing. Previously she was Managing Director of Macmillan Children's Books where she led the acquisition of the non-fiction children's publisher Kingfisher. Prior to being Managing Director she was Sales and Marketing Director. Previously she worked in marketing roles at Routledge, where she began her publishing career and Houghton Mifflin. |
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Bloomsbury Academic & Professional (MD: Jonathan Glasspool) |
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Jonathan Glasspool is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic and Professional and Deputy Managing Director of A & C Black Ltd. He was formerly Product Director in Bloomsbury's Electronic Media Division. Previous jobs include Publisher with Reed Elsevier in Singapore, Melbourne and Oxford. Jonathan was also Head of Publishing at the Institute of Management, where he worked with Hodder Headline, Pearson and Butterworth-Heinemann. He started his career at Cambridge University Press. |
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Martin Casimir is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Professional and has worked in professional publishing since the early-nineties, and joined Tolley Publishing in 1995 as Head of Marketing. Tolley was acquired by Lexis in 1996, and Martin worked there until 2006 in a number of roles, latterly as Marketing Director. In 2006 Martin joined CCH as Managing Director and stayed there until 2010 when he joined Bloomsbury Professional initially as Publishing Director. |
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Kathryn Earle is Managing Director, Berg and Visual Arts, and New Business Director, Academic & Professional Division. Kathryn has run Berg since 1997, and led its management buy-out in 2002. She built the business from a turnover of £350'k to nearly £2'm before it was bought by Bloomsbury in 2008. She has particular expertise with digital products, having conceived of and launched the award-winning Berg Fashion Library. She is also responsible for the development of the fashion list at Berg, and the launch of Berg's journals programme, including its flagship publication, Fashion Theory. As Patron and former Vice-Chair of the Independent Publishers Guild, she currently serves on their Board, as well as the Board of the publishing programme at Oxford Brookes University. Kathryn began her career at the Modern Language Association of America in New York. |
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Bloomsbury Information (MD: Kathy Rooney) |
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Kathy Rooney is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Information which has strategic responsibility for Bloomsbury's work in Qatar in particular with the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (www.qfinance.com) and Qatar Foundation, including publishing books in Arabic and English through Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (www.bqfp.com.qa) and digital, open-access, peer-reviewed research journals (www.qscience.com). In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Kim Scott-Walwyn Prize which recognizes the 'professional achievements of women in Publishing'. From 2005-2008 she was joint Managing Director of Bloomsbury's German company, Berlin Verlag. Kathy has been Publishing Director of Bloomsbury since January 1987 when she joined the company to start Bloomsbury's Reference Division, and continues to be Editor-in-Chief of the Bloomsbury English Dictionary. She previously worked for Collins and Longman, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick. |
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Group service functions - Sales, Marketing & Production |
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Evan Schnittman is Managing Director Group Sales and Marketing, Print and Digital. Evan splits his time equally between Bloomsbury's London and New York offices and is in charge of all sales, marketing, publicity, rights and technology departments across Bloomsbury's group companies. Evan has over 25 years of publishing related business experience having held positions as vice president of corporate & business development at Oxford University Press, Executive Vice President at The Princeton Review, Senior Editor at Little, Brown, and editorial and sales positions at FA Davis. Evan started his publishing career at Barnes & Noble's main store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Evan is widely known in the industry as a thought leader - and is widely sought out to speak and write on the key issues facing content companies in a digital world. His blog, BlackPlasticGlasses, has become required reading for anyone wishing to understand book publishing in the digital age. |
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Katie Bond - Publicity Director joined Bloomsbury in
April 1999 as Publicity Director. She began her publishing career at
Sinclair-Stevenson in 1992 and moved to Hodder Headline in 1995 where she was
Publicity Manager for their literary imprint Sceptre. At Bloomsbury she has
led major media campaigns in 2000 for new titles by Joanna Trollope, Michael
Ondaatje, Will Self and Margaret Atwood. |
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Stephanie Duncan - Digital Media Director joined Bloomsbury in September 1996 as assistant to Nigel Newton, having worked previously at Sheil Land Associates. She became a special projects manager in 1999 and was actively involved in the completion of the Encarta World English Dictionary among other projects. In 2001, she became responsible for Bloomsbury.com which has grown to include the development of websites, bibliographic databases, and the content digitisation and archival programme for all parts of the Group. |
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Penny Edwards - Production Director joined Bloomsbury in
1987 as Production Assistant, having worked previously at A Zwemmer Ltd, Fine Art
Booksellers. In 1994 she became Production Director. She is responsible for all
aspects of the printing and production of Bloomsbury books. |
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Ruth Logan - Director of Contracts and Domestic Rights joined Bloomsbury in December 1987 as Rights Manager. Her publishing career began in 1982 at Jonathan Cape where she sold American and paperback rights in authors such as Martin Amis, Isabel Allende, Julian Barnes, Roald Dahl and Gabriel García Márquez. She then worked briefly at the Deborah Rogers Literary Agency, after which she moved back into publishing at Heinemann and then Bloomsbury, where she is now Rights Director. |
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Joanna Everard - International Rights Director, responsible for rights sales for Bloomsbury US and UK titles across all the divisions. She has 25 years experience of selling rights, working for various publishers from large multinationals like Reed and De Agostini to independents like Ryland Peters & Small and A & C Black, covering fiction and non-fiction, adult and children's book and every type of rights. |
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Kevin Perry - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Bloomsbury. He joined Bloomsbury in 2001 as website operations manager, having previously worked for lastminute.com, before and after its IPO, and prior to this as an IT project manager in the civil service. He subsequently developed internal bibliographic systems for Bloomsbury, before becoming Chief Technology Officer in 2010. |
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David Ward has worked in publishing since 1982, joining Bloomsbury in 1987. He
started his career as a sales representative for Alan
Sutton Publishing, moving to Penguin Books in 1985. In
1987 he was approached to join the founding team at Bloomsbury
as Sales Representative for the North of England and
Scotland. He became the company's Key Accounts Manager
in 1993 and was promoted to National Accounts Manager
two years later. In March 1998 David Ward was appointed
as Sales Director, overseeing a team of twelve people.
He is responsible for sales across Bloomsbury's growing
portfolio, including both adult, children's fiction and
the reference division. He is also a director of the
management Board, Bloomsbury Book publishing Company
Limited which also includes the Plc Directors. |
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Bloomsbury overseas offices |
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Kathleen Farrar - Marketing Director joined Bloomsbury in December 1998 as International Sales Manager, having previously worked for Allen & Unwin Australia. She began her publishing career working in the leading independent bookstores in Sydney, Australia before moving to Allen & Unwin as Sales & Promotions Manager. She became International Sales Director in early 2000 responsible for all International Sales as well as Bookclub and Special sales in the UK. As of September 2007 she has taken overall charge of all sales, marketing, publicity and website activity for Bloomsbury UK. |
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Philip Roeder joined Bloomsbury as Managing Director of former Berlin Verlag, now Bloomsbury Verlag, Berlin in July 2010. He started his career in 1995 as Assistant to the Managing Director at Suhrkamp/Insel Verlag, Frankfurt, and became their Managing Director in 1999. In 2008 he moved to HörVerlag, Munich, Germany's major audio book publisher, and in 2010 he was appointed Interim Director Finance & Controlling at Klopotek AG. He is member of the advisory board of the collecting society VG Wort. |
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