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TIM STOOKESBERRY APPOINTED VP/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AT JOHN WILEY & SONS

We are pleased to announce that Tim Stookesberry has been named VP/Editorial Director at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. In this role, he will be responsible for the overall direction and leadership of all higher education publishing programs, including the development and implementation of strategic and operating plans.

 

Tim arrives at Wiley from Pearson’s Higher Education division, where he held a number of increasingly responsible positions. He was most recently Vice President/Director of Marketing Strategy for the Arts & Sciences product lines. While in this role, he developed and executed marketing strategies that supported global divisional plans. He was previously Vice President/Director of Marketing for Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishers.

 

Prior to his time at Pearson, Tim served in various publisher, editorial, and marketing roles at McGraw-Hill. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri.

JOHN SEMEL APPOINTED SVP, PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT AT JOHN WILEY & SONS

We are pleased to announce that John Semel has joined John Wiley & Sons as SVP, Planning & Development. In this role, he will lead the company’s planning and business development activities on a global basis.

John arrives at Wiley from The Weinstein Company where, as EVP, Business Development, he was responsible for the identification, evaluation, and execution of all acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures with a focus on traditional and interactive media opportunities. Prior to Weinstein, John had extensive experience in strategic investment and business development activities at MTV Networks, Hearst Corporation, and Primedia. In addition to envisioning, structuring, and executing strategic growth opportunities, John has experience leading and managing operating activities of the projects he has undertaken.

John has an M.B.A. from Harvard and an undergraduate degree in Latin and Greek from Brown University.

JOHN WILEY & SONS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF STEVEN RAGO AS DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

We are pleased to announce that Steven J. Rago will be joining the Planning & Development team as Director of Corporate Development. In this position, Steve will be responsible for working with Higher Education and Wiley-Blackwell on:

  • Researching and initiating partnership and alliance opportunities for the individual businesses and the company as a whole.
  • Leading acquisition efforts of products lines and companies, including origination, valuation, negotiations, and due diligence.
  • Assisting in the development of new businesses by working on new market evaluation, customer and competitor analysis, and business plan and business model development.

Steve comes to Wiley from Thomson Learning where he was Senior Vice President of Development & Strategy and developed partnerships with organizations such as Microsoft, the University of Virginia, Capella University, and the CIC, a consortium of "Big 12" universities. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for Thomson Scientific, Reference & Health Care, and Vice President/General Manager of Venture Development at Thomson Financial.

Prior to his time at Thomson, Steve held key management positions at The New York Times including Marketing VP, New Media Director, and Head of Development for the Information Services Group, developing partnerships with CBS News and AOL, among others. He also served as a senior editor in the newsroom of The Times.

Steve was an award-winning reporter and editor for the Ottaway Newspapers, a Dow Jones unit. He graduated from SUNY, New Paltz.

KAREN MURPHY NAMED EDITOR AT JOSSEY-BASS

We are pleased to announce that Karen Murphy is joining the team at Jossey-Bass as an Editor. In her new position with the innovative entrepreneurial business publisher, Karen will manage a list of publications to ensure series growth and profitability. She will sign titles, develop and transmit projects to production, conduct market research, analyze sales progress, and will work with the series team and VP/Publisher on refining overall strategy.

Karen Murphy has more than 11 years’ experience in book publishing at houses as diverse as Penguin, Kaplan, and Oxford University Press. Most recently at Kaplan Publishing/Dearborn Trade Publishing, Karen was able to exceed acquisitions goals each year, and was quickly promoted from Development Editor to Acquisitions Editor. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in English and minored in French.

About Jossey-Bass:

Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, publishes books, periodicals, and other media to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations and their communities. Jossey-Bass’ publications feature the work of some of the world’s best-known authors in leadership, business, education, religion and spirituality, parenting, nonprofit, public health and health administration, conflict resolution and relationships. Publishing nearly 250 new titles each year, Jossey-Bass seeks to honor and affirm the values, purpose, and mission that inform our publishing decisions and our professional relationships. In addition to Jossey-Bass’ book and electronic offerings, there are 25 periodicals, journals, and newsletters published under the Jossey-Bass imprint, including the award-winning quarterly review Leader to Leader produced in collaboration with the Leader to Leader Institute. To learn more, please visit www.josseybass.com.

About John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. provides must-have content and services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific, technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at wiley.com.

RACHEL BURLEY NAMED ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER/ PUBLISHER FOR JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

As Associate Publisher/ Publisher, Rachel will be responsible for the profitable growth of the company’s science program, both in print and electronic delivery, and the formulation, development and implementation of strategic and operating plans. Furthermore, she will be managing a group of editors, all whom have Ph.D.’s in their fields of specialty.

Rachel is an experienced publishing professional with a career spanning 16 years in newspaper, clinical and international STM. Rachel worked for 8 years at Nature Publishing Group, serving as Publisher, Nature Methods, in Nature Methods Research as well as International Display Advertising Director and International Group Advertising Manager.

About John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:

Wiley is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and other educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as lifelong learners.

With about 3,500 employees worldwide, Wiley has operations in the United States, Europe (England, Germany and Russia), Canada, Asia, and Australia. The Company has U.S. publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in New Jersey, California, Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Wiley's worldwide headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the river from Manhattan.

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NAMES DON FOWLEY VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER, BUSINESS AND ENGINEERING

Don comes to Wiley with a rich set of experiences and successes in both higher education and professional publishing. He began his publishing career as a college sales representative, first for Prentice Hall, and then Addison-Wesley. For the next eight years Don progressed from editor to senior editor and then to executive editor of Engineering at Addison Wesley Higher Education, where he and his team published bestselling texts, such as Nilsson's Electric Circuits, Park's Contemporary Engineering Economics, Kalpakjian's Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Dorf's Modern Control Systems, and Franklin et al.'s Feedback Controls of Dynamic Systems.

After two years as executive editor in Engineering at Prentice Hall, Don spent the next five years as a Publisher/VP for Macmillan Computer Publishing, where he built and managed the team that established New Riders Publishing as a leading publisher for designers, founded the highly successful Cisco Press imprint, and published the first Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) training guides. For the past four and a half years, Don has been at Microsoft, where his team at MS Press launched the Microsoft Official Academic Learning textbook series and the Microsoft Electronic Learning Library.

About John Wiley & Sons, Inc:

Wiley is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and other educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as lifelong learners. With about 3,500 employees worldwide, Wiley has operations in the US, Europe, Canada, Asia and Australia.

M.J. O’LEARY NAMED VP, MARKETING AND SALES FOR JOHN WILEY & SONS

John Wiley & Sons’ Higher Education Division has brought on M.J. O’Leary as Vice President of Marketing and Sales, reporting into the President of the Division, Bonnie Lieberman. Prior to coming to Wiley, MJ was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for The Princeton Review’s K-12 online division. She began her career at Pearson Education for their Prentice Hall imprint as a sales representative, and moved rapidly up through the ranks as sales manager, director and then Vice President for Pearson Education’s school division before moving over to Princeton Review.

John Wiley & Sons is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and other educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as lifelong learners. With about 3,500 employees worldwide, Wiley has operations in the US, Europe, Canada, Asia and Australia.

 

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