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David Kornacker, Senior Vice President, joined Bert Davis Executive Search in 1998. At Bert Davis he has worked with senior executives and publishing professionals in areas ranging from product development, marketing and sales to finance, operations and technology. Companies he has worked with have included established industry leaders such as Thomson, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, John Wiley & Sons, and Wolters Kluwer as well as new media start-ups, outsourcing firms and information technology companies.
Prior to joining Bert Davis, David was President of The French Publishers' Agency, a New York based literary agency that represents most of France's major publishers in the U.S. market. While leading the agency, he developed relationships with major players in many areas of the American publishing world and sold over 100 French titles into the U.S. market for publication in English translation.
David is a graduate of Columbia College and holds an M.F.A. in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.
Sally Dougan, Executive Vice President, joined the Bert Davis group its early days and has been instrumental in expanding the reach, growing the company and establishing it as a premier search service and consulting group in the publishing/communications industry.
She and her colleagues are professionals with backgrounds in publishing, marketing, sales, product and business development and editorial who handle placements in those areas in print, multimedia and web based formats.
Sally and her team work with and develop a broad range of potential candidates and have placed key executives at the General Manager, V.P. and Director levels in many of the largest consumer and professional publishing firms as well as in smaller and more specialized companies.
Prior to joining Bert Davis, Sally was General Manager of the New York office of a Midwestern general publisher, and before that she had been Assistant Director of Marketing of Cambridge University Press, where she developed a proactive 20-person department.
As part of her continuing professional education, she earned the Certificate in Adult Career and Life Planning from New York University and is a graduate of Coach University. Sally has also been quite active in the Association of Career Professionals International where she served for two terms as the NY Chapter President.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Sally focused on European History and Russian language. Among her outside interests are photography/scanned flora, gardening, reading, home renovation, and lifelong learning.
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