Lerner Gives New Roles to Top Execs
By Claire Kirch -- Publishers Weekly, 1/6/2009 3:54:00 PM
Undeterred by its having to recently pull its fall release, Angel Girl, from bookstore and library shelves, Lerner Publishing Group is moving forward into 2009 with a major hire, as well as job moves for key company personnel.
Terri Reden has been named v-p, marketing, effective January 6, while current director of marketing Lois Wallentine will take on the title of director of product development and marketing research. Sales director David Wexler, a 12-year Lerner employee, has been promoted to executive v-p, sales; Margaret Wunderlich has been promoted to executive v-p, CFO, and Joni Sussman, director of Kar-Ben, Lerner’s imprint specializing in Jewish-interest books for the past four years, has been named that imprint’s publisher.
Reden, who has 15 years of marketing and public relations expertise in the classroom market, comes to Lerner from PLATO Learning, an educational technology company, where she served as v-p, marketing. She has also held leadership positions at Net Perceptions, TEKsystems, and Johns Hopkins University. Reden, together with Wexler and Wunderlich, will report to Adam Lerner, Lerner Publishing Group publisher and president, while Sussman and Wallentine will report to Wexler.
