BISG Board of Directors

BISG's Board of Directors is comprised of a cross-section of senior executives from across the book industry.

OFFICERS

Chair

*Kenneth Michaels
President & COO
Hachette Book Group

Vice-Chair

*Tara Catogge
SVP, Inbound Supply Chain
ReaderLink Distribution Services, LLC

Secretary

*Judith Appelbaum
Managing Director
Sensible Solutions

Treasurer

*George Tattersfield
VP, Merchandising
Ingram Content Group

DIRECTORS

Heloise Ardley
Digital Operations Manager
Pearson Technology

Mark Bide
Executive Director
EDItEUR

John Bohman
VP, Sales and Customer Operations
Random House

*Ken Brooks
SVP, Global Production and Manufacturing Services
Cengage Learning

Gary W. Brusseau
VP of Sales, Books
Quad/Graphics

Kyusik Chung
Vice President of Business Development
Goodreads

Dan Cullen
Content Officer
American Booksellers Association

*Sally Dedecker
President
Sally Dedecker Enterprises

Terry Downes
VP, Publishing Operations
Disney Publishing Worldwide

Noah Genner
President & CEO
BookNet Canada

Lyle Girandola
VP, Publishing Finance
The McGraw-Hill Companies

Peter Givler
Executive Director
Association of American University Presses (AAUP)

*Joseph Gonnella
VP, Adult Trade Merchandising
Barnes & Noble

Helene Green
VP, Business Information & Data Operations
Simon & Schuster

Ted Hill
President
THA Consulting

Dan Johnson
SVP, IS Development
Baker & Taylor

Tina Jordan
Vice President
Association of American Publishers (AAP)

Florrie Binford Kichler
President
IBPA, the Independent Book Publishers Association

Mark Kuyper
President & CEO
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA)

James Lichtenberg
President
Lightspeed, LLC

George Lossius
Group CEO
Publishing Technology

Sharon Lubrano
Vice President and General Manager
Bowker

David McCree
SVP Sales, Book & Directory Group
RR Donnelley

Maureen McMahon
President & Publisher
Kaplan Publishing

Jonathan Nowell
President
Nielsen Book

*Dominique Raccah
Publisher & CEO
Sourcebooks

John Rubin
President & Founder
Above the Treeline

*Andrew Savikas
CEO
Safari Books Online

Katherine Schowalter
SVP, Professional & Consumer Publishing
John Wiley & Sons

Michael Tamblyn
EVP, Content, Sales and Merchandising
Kobo

Fran Toolan
Founder & "Chief Igniter"
Firebrand Technologies

Tom Turvey
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Google

Rob Weisstuch
VP, Business Analysis
HarperCollins Publishers

John Wicker
Digital Publishing Solutions Head, Media & Information Services
Tata Consultancy Services

*Also members of the Executive Committee