IDW Publishing Announces Six New Hires

IDW Publishing continues to hire new staff, and has announced the addition six new hires.

The new additions include Alex Hargett—who previously worked at Coty as well as DC Comics, Public Affairs Books, and Penguin Press—who has been hired as book trade and mass market sales director; Pat O’Connell, who has worked for Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics, was tapped as IDW direct market sales manager; Julia Borden, who previously managed foreign rights and sales at No Starch Press, has been named IDW foreign licensing sales manager; Lauren LePera, formerly managing editor and production editor at Insight Editions, has been named the new managing editor; and Topher Alford, previously marketing strategy manager at DC Entertainment, joins IDW as senior digital marketing manager.

IDW also announced that they have appointed Alison Quin as the company-wide senior director of IT/IS. Before joining IDW, she was senior implementation project manager at Xenial, Inc.

IDW publisher Nachie Marsham said: “We’re elated to be welcoming such a robustly experienced group of individuals to IDW. IDW has an exciting year ahead, and both the publishing and entertainment segments have been building an amazing 2021 project slate. Having team members who are experts in giving our titles the visibility that they deserve, and making them available to our distributors and readers is crucial.”