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THOMPSON PUBLISHING GROUP NAMES GREGG MAURO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE

We are pleased to announce that Thompson Publishing Group has appointed Gregg Mauro as Executive Director of The Performance Institute. In this role, Mauro will oversee the Institute’s mission of providing high-quality management training conferences to government and industry professionals on a wide variety of issues. He will also oversee the Institute’s consulting, product development, sales, marketing, and conference areas.

Mauro has been in the executive education/training/conference business for over 15 years. Until recently, he was Founder and Executive Director of Government Executives Network, a training company serving the development and learning needs of public sector executives and managers. Government Executives Network is now part of The Performance Institute.

Prior to founding Government Executives Network, Mauro served as Associate Director of the Conference Division for the Conference Board. He also held management positions at the American Conference Institute, Executive Enterprises Inc., and the Institute for International Research.

Mauro has a bachelor's degree from Bernard Baruch College/City University of New York, and a master's degree in business administration from Fordham University.

About Thompson Publishing Group:

Thompson Publishing Group, a member of the Avista Capital Partners portfolio, is a leading professional publisher of information on complex laws and regulations via subscription-based handbooks, newsletters, reference services, single-issue publications, and the Internet. With more than 300 publications and approximately 110,000 subscribers, Thompson serves professionals in the human resources, education, government grants, and banking fields.

JOHN TAGLER TO HEAD AAP PROFESSIONAL & SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING DIVISION

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has named John Tagler as Vice President and Executive Director of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP). Tagler will be headquartered in the AAP New York office. He succeeds Barbara Meredith who retired last year.

Tagler comes to his AAP post after a 30-year career at Elsevier. Starting as a Library Sales Representative, he moved up the corporate ladder through journals marketing, sales, and marketing services, serving a 10-year stint as Director of Corporate Communications before becoming Vice President, Customer Marketing, Academic and Government Libraries.

Tagler, who holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and a Master’s in Library Science from Pratt Institute, is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, the Medical Library Association, and the American Library Association. He served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and spent five years as a member of the Executive Board of the North American Serials Interest Group.

AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder said: “We’re delighted that the search has ended so well. John Tagler brings a unique perspective to his new responsibilities, and has the background and experience to strengthen communication between the publishing and library communities in the face of a host of challenges. We are looking forward to welcoming him to AAP.”

The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses, and scholarly societies. AAP members publish hardcover and paperback books in every field, educational materials for the elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and professional markets, scholarly journals, computer software, and electronic products and services. The protection of intellectual property rights in all media, the defense of the freedom to read, the freedom to publish at home and abroad, and the promotion of reading and literacy are among the Association’s highest priorities.

Members of the AAP Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division publish the vast majority of materials used in the U.S. by scholars and professionals in science, medicine, technology, business, law, reference, social science, and the humanities, and are worldwide disseminators, archivists, and shapers of scientific research via print and electronic means. The Division's 100+ professional societies, commercial publishers, and university presses produce books, journals, computer software, databases, and electronic products.

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