People 8/19

VP, education sales and marketing Michael Gentile will leave the company on August 21.

Liz Dresner has been promoted to senior art director.

Katrina Damkoehler has been promoted to art director.

Jade Rector has been promoted to senior designer.

Megan Shortt has been promoted to designer.

Damon Reiss will return as svp, group publisher of Christian trade publishing, reporting to president and ceo Mark Schoenwald. He was previously chief publishing officer at Tyndale.

Stephen Twilliger has joined as chief financial officer. He was previously finance director at Hachette Book Group.

Hugo Villabona has joined as editorial director. He was previously chief content officer at Mango Publishing, and then helped to launch Key Lime Publishing.

Morgan Amer has joined as sales director. She was previously sales director at Hachette Book Group.

The publisher will close nonfiction and translation imprint Ithaka Press, the Bookseller reports, with the continued publication of forthcoming titles decided on a case-by-case basis. Publishing director and founder Sarah Braybrooke left the company in July, and editors Ellie Carr and Leonie Lock will leave at the end of November.

In addition, the Footnote Press imprint will only publish fiction going forward.

“The decision comes as a result of Bonnier Books UK’s move to focus on genres in which it is better established and can publish most successfully amid challenging market conditions within the wider non-fiction landscape,” Bonnier said in a statement to the Bookseller.