Leigh Marchant Joins HBG as Chief Marketing Officer
Leigh Marchant will join Hachette Book Group as SVP and chief marketing officer, effecitve September 23. She will report to deputy CEO Richard Kitson and succeeds Wibke Grutjen, who departed HBG this month to join Simon & Schuster.
Most recently, Marchant served as SVP and director of marketing, strategy, and engagement at the Random House Group, where she oversaw marketing and branding strategies for fiction and nonfiction titles across all categories, including campaigns for such authors as Peter Attia, Brené Brown, Lee Child, Emma Cline, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Glennon Doyle, Lena Dunham, Prince Harry, George Saunders, Nicholas Sparks, and Elizabeth Strout.
Prior to Random House, where she spent 14 years, Marchant served as an account manager at Barnes & Noble, advertising and promotions manager at Oxford University Press, and publicist at Perseus Books Group.
Marchant will lead HBG’s marketing strategy team, which works across 40 imprints, and work with HBG's sales team, publishing groups, international marketing teams across Hachette Livre.
