Job Moves: November 9, 2010

Lisa Faith Phillips has been named director of digital strategy and development at Hachette Book Group. Phillips will help evaluate potential partnerships, foster communication internally and externally about HBG strategy, and address the rapidly changing needs of the digital publishing businesses. Phillips was most recently a digital marketing consultant with Flip Global Marketing and, before that, v-p and general manager at Random House Direct.

Ashmead Memorial Today

Larry Ashmead's memorial service will be held today, November 9, from 4 to 5:30 at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, 325 Park Ave., with a reception to follow. The longtime HarperCollins editor died September 3.

Job Moves: November 8, 2010

Oxford University Press has made a series of senior appointments designed to boost the organization's digital development. Pam Sutherland has been named group chief information officer, a newly-created role with responsibility for the Press's group-wide digital and IT infrastructure. Casper Grathwohl was named online and reference publisher in the Global Academic Business, and Ernst Kallus has been named digital media director for English Language Teaching.

Job Moves: November 5, 2010

Jonathan Stolper has been named v-p, general manager of Nielsen BookScan. He was most recently publisher of Octopus Books USA. He succeeds Jim King, who left the company in August.

Weber Stepping Down from Senior Role at RH

Andrew Weber, senior v-p, operations and technology at Random House, will step down from that position at the end of the year. The announcement was made early Thursday afternoon by Madeline McIntosh, president, sales, operations and digital, and who will now take over Weber's oversight responsibilities.

Job Moves: November 4, 2010

Piccadilly Journals, Gifts & Stationery has named Annette Sobel national sales manager. Sobel was most recently national accounts manager to the warehouse club customers and their distributors at National Book Network. Prior to NBN, she was a member of Baker & Taylor Marketing (formerly Advanced Marketing Services).

Job Moves: November 3, 2010

Lindsay Sagnette has been named senior editor at Crown Publishers, reporting to Molly Stern. Sagnette, who was most recently a senior editor at St. Martin's Press, will start at Crown on November 15. At SMP she acquired and edited literary fiction and nonfiction, such as William Ryan’s thriller trilogy, starting with The Holy Thief. Sagnette began her editorial career at Riverhead in 2000, later moving to Grove/Atlantic and Bloomsbury.

Job Moves: November 2, 2010

Glen Tomaszewski has been named v-p, chief accounting officer and controller at Borders Group. Tomaszewski has been with Borders for 12 years and was most recently interim CFO. Tomaszewsk's salary will be $250,000 and he will receive a special bonus of $100,000, payable on February 18, 2011.

Job Moves: October 28, 2010

Alena Graedon has been named manager of membership and literary awards the Pen American Center. Graedon was most recently an editorial assistant at Knopf, and was also an executive assistant to PEN’s previous executive director, Michael Roberts.

Job Moves: October 26, 2010

Michael Szczerban has been promoted to associate editor at Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint. Szczerban started at Simon & Schuster in 2007 and became the imprint’s assistant managing editor before joining its editorial department in 2009. He began his publishing career at Carnegie Mellon University Press, and also worked as a software architect, web designer, and research programmer.

Schneider to Retire from Random House

Carol Schneider, who has served in a range of publicity and public relations roles for Random House over the last 32 years, will retire from the company at the end of November. The announcement was made early Monday afternoon by Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group, the last in a string of RH executives who worked with Schneider.

People: Week of 10/25/10

Job Moves: October 21, 2010

Nicole Dewey is joining Little, Brown as executive director of publicity on November 15. Dewey was most recently executive director at Henry Holt, where she managed a department and worked with authors including Hilary Mantel, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Atul Gawande.

Meacham Named Executive Editor at Random House

Pulitzer-winning author and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has been named executive v-p and executive editor of Random House Publishing Group. Meacham, a longtime RH author who won the Pulitzer for American Lion, will report to RHPG president and publisher Gina Centrello.

Job Moves: October 20, 2010

Merriam-Webster has appointed Caryl Schivley to the position of v-p and chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. She will be responsible for all financial aspects of the company and will provide leadership and coordination in the business planning and budgeting activities of the company.

Comings and Goings: October 20, 2010

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Susan Knopf, formerly senior v-p of marketing and new business at Parachute Publishing, has started a soon-to-be officially announced new business in which she will be working with authors, publishers and brands as an editor, packager, marketer, and consultant. At Parachute Knopf created the award-winning John Deere for Kids publishing and merchandise program, and also oversaw bestselling author R.L. Stine's publicity. She can now be reached at susanknopf04@yahoo.com.

Job Moves: October 19, 2010

Erika Greber has been named assistant marketing manager in the Random House Publishing Group, working for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. Greber was marketing associate at the Random House Audio group.

Chris Boot Named Executive Director at Aperture

Chris Boot, a former editorial director of Phaidon Press and a former director of the New York and London offices of Magnum, the international photo cooperative, has been named executive director of the Aperture Foundation, the Manhattan-based photographic resource center and publishing house. Boot's appointment will become effective in January 2011 and he succeeds Juan Garcia de Oteyza, who has been executive director of Aperture for the last two years.

Job Moves: October 19, 2010

Ryan Doherty has joined Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor reporting to svp, publisher Jane von Mehren. Doherty has been at Ballantine for four years, working on, among other things, Web site- and blog-inspired books including F My Life, FU Penguin, and the forthcoming Whiter Shades of Pale.

Henry Named CFO at Borders

After some speculation over who would fill the job of chief financial officer, Borders has named an executive with experience in the Las Vegas gaming industry, Scott Henry, to the post. Borders has been without a permanent CFO since Mark Bierly left this summer.