HarperCollins Christian Publishing has announced several key leadership changes and promotions as Bob Edington, SVP of content operations and supply chain, will retire September 4 after nearly two decades with the company.
HCCP President and CEO Mark Schoenwald praised Edington as "instrumental in applying technology to content in innovative ways, enabling reuse across multiple formats, and collaborating with divisional partners to implement our content workflow system."
Edington's roles encompass book and Bible design, art direction, production for physical and digital formats, inventory management, and customer service. Many of his responsibilities are being shifted July 1 as HCCP promoted several people to new leadership roles.
Randy Bishop will be VP for production, continuing to oversee the HCCP Bible and Book print production team as well as key areas such as cost management and supplier development and diversification. He will report to Charlotte Veaney, group production and global sourcing director at HarperCollins Publishers.
Veaney, who also leads HarperCollins's global contract renewal program and local print negotiations for outside the U.S., will join the HCCP executive leadership team, which reports to Schoenwald.
Shannon Droge, VP for publishing operations, also will join the executive leadership team. Her responsibilities include title information management, digital assets, prepress, creative direction for book and Bible products, and driving "strategic initiatives such as editorial AI adoption and organizational transformation," according to the announcement.
