Forbes Named COO at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull
May 03, 2021
Alyson Forbes has been promoted to COO of Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press, effective immediately. Previously, she was associate publisher and head of sales for the publisher. Forbes will now oversee the publishers' business and operations teams, including finance, marketing, publicity, sales, and the writing program at Catapult.
Forbes is a veteran of Penguin, where she held a number of roles at Penguin, Putnam, Riverhead, and Viking; later, she was deputy director of creative services at Random House. Immediately prior to joining Catapult, she was v-p and executive director of marketing strategy at the Hachette Book Group.
