Penguin Random House announced the senior management appointments of its now-unified publishing operations group, which will be headed by Sue Malone-Barber as senior v-p, director, publishing operations, PRH.
“Since starting her publishing career almost 40 years ago, [Malone-Barber's] deep knowledge of the publishing process, and systems that support it combined with her open and constant collaboration and communications with the publishing divisions, have been a huge asset to the company,” said Nihar Malaviya, executive v-p, COO, Penguin Random House U.S. “Pre- and post-merger, Sue has brought her skills and expertise to focus on the Penguin Random House Systems integration, as she and her team coordinate the migration of data, pricing, and inventory for more than 400,000 titles, and the systems training of nearly 1,000 Penguin colleagues across the U.S. and Canada.”
In addition to Malone-Barber's appointment, PRH has named Kirk Bleemer v-p, director, production strategy, operations, and vendor management. Patty King is now v-p, director, production, Berkley Publishing Group, and v-p, director, strategic production spend management, PRH.
Sue Driskill has been named v-p, director, inventory management, PRH; and Chelsea Vaughn has been named v-p, director, publishing operations business process and support, PRH.
