John K. Dragoon has been appointed executive v-p and chief marketing officer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with a focus on education marketing. Dragoon has spent seven of the last 10 years as chief marketing officer and channel chief of software provider Novell.
Ryan Chapman will join Penguin Press as marketing director, effective April 23. He comes from Farrar, Straus and Giroux where he was online marketing manager since 2010.
Michael Magoulias will join University of Chicago Press as director of the journals division. He was most recently publishing director for The Lancet journal portfolio.
Allison McGeehon has been promoted to director of publicity and marketing at Artisan. She joined the company a year ago from Hyperion.
Ryan Payne has been appointed v-p, marketing for Source Interlink Media. Payne was most recently account director at Team One Advertising.
