Barbara Briel has been named to the newly created position of president at Sourcebooks. Briel, who served as the publisher’s senior v-p and chief operating officer for the past 10 years, started her career with Sourcebooks as director of administration and finance in 2004.
“Barb has been a leader in building Sourcebooks into a leading and energetically entrepreneurial publisher,” said Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks’s publisher and CEO. “Mission-driven, analytical, and entrepreneurial, this promotion to president is our way of recognizing the significant impact Barb has already had on the business and the leadership she will continue to have into this next phase of our company’s growth.”
Sourcebooks is the largest woman-owned book publisher in North America, and a majority of management and executive management roles at the publisher are held by women, as are four of its five board seats.
