Kate Wilson Named as Headline CEO

By Julia Eccleshare -- Publishers Weekly, 3/12/2009 7:35:00 AM

Kate Wilson.

Kate Wilson, who last week announced her departure as group managing director of Scholastic, will join Hachette in the newly created role of CEO of Headline. She will start work on May 5. Wilson said, “The opportunity to work with bestselling and building Headline authors is an incredible privilege. I have long admired the Headline list—and, more generally, Hachette—from the outside, so the prospect of being inside is a great source of pleasure and excitement.”

Martin Neild, managing director of Headline and CEO of Hodder & Stoughton and John Murray, will quit full-time work in publishing in early 2010, “in accordance with a long-held personal plan.” He will continue to work as a consultant for Hachette, “until at least the middle of 2011 and probably beyond.”

Meanwhile, Neild will be part of a strategic development group for Headline with Wilson and with Tim Hely Hutchinson (Hachette CEO), Kerr MacRae (deputy managing director and COO), and Jane Morpeth (deputy managing director and publisher). Headline lost market share in 2008 as it sought to replace the revenue generated by thriller writer James Patterson, who moved to Random House.

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