Belinda Ioni Rasmussen joins Walker Books in the new position of president and publisher “after the summer,” based in London, with responsibility across Trustbridge Global Media‘s publishing portfolio. She has been managing director of Macmillan UK Children’s Books for the past 12 years. The company says the board created the new executive role due to their “rapid expansion.”
Macmillan
Chris Scheina has been promoted to director of subrights. Flora Esterly has been promoted to senior manager of subrights and Emily Miiller has been promoted to associate.
On the sales team, Jennifer Golding has been promoted to senior manager, national accounts. Abigail Burrus has been promoted to manager, data science. Nikita Chatoredussy has been promoted to senior analyst, sales planning. Jennifer Macancela and Reagan Reynolds have been promoted to associate. Madeline Winter joined as business development specialist. In diversified sales, Jessica Sorentino joined as senior manager, marketing. Kristin Boran has been promoted to manager on the international sales team.
On the library marketing team, Amanda Crimarco has been promoted to associate director and Emily Day has been promoted to manager.
On the production team, Celeste Cass and Amanda Gutierrez have been promoted to senior manager and Emily Kleinburg has been promoted to associate. Christopher Gonzalez has been promoted to senior manager on the digital production team.
On the platform development team, Vasudevareddy Cheluri has been promoted to lead developer, Cognos BI. Veena Vittal has been promoted to lead data analyst. Karen Rucker has been promoted to lead business analyst.
In finance, Rosana Zagaceta has been promoted to senior analyst. Lea Kim has been promoted to director on the tax team. Amy Fodera has been promoted to manager on the financial operations team. Michelle Suter has been promoted to senior analyst on the treasury & insurance team. Becca Ramsey recently joined as cost accountant.
Daniela Plunkett has been promoted to senior manager on the business systems team.
Caitlyn Rush has been promoted to associate manager on the digital operations team.
Alison Tromp has been promoted to senior director on the inventory management team.
Christopher Urban has been promoted to manager on the metadata team.
Nora Afghani has been promoted to associate on the author events team.
At the Macmillan Speakers Bureau, Sophie Giroir has been promoted to associate, events & sales.
Chronicle
Executive director of global sales Lisa Bach will leave the company on May 3 after 23 years. She will consult and pursue her own creative projects.
