Leaders

The Executive Management Team of HBGUSA is comprised of the following leaders:

• David Young, Chairman & CEO
• Beth Ford, COO
• Chris Barba, EVP, Sales & Marketing
• Sophie Cottrell, VP, Communications Director
• Tom Maciag, EVP & CFO
• Michael Pietsch, EVP HBGUSA & Publisher Little, Brown and Company
• Jamie Raab, EVP HBGUSA & Publisher, Grand Central Publishing
• Carol Ross, EVP & General Counsel
• Maja Thomas, SVP HBGUSA Digital & Audio Publishing
• Megan Tingley, SVP HBGUSA & Publisher, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Andrea Weinzimer, VP, Human Resources
• Rolf Zettersten, SVP HBGUSA & Publisher FaithWords and Center Street

David Young

David Young was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company in January 2006, having been Chief Executive of our former sister company, Time Warner Book Group UK since 2000. He joined the company as Managing Director of Little, Brown & Company UK (as it was then called) in 1996.

David began his career in publishing when he joined Thorsons, the Mind, Body and Spirit publisher, as Production Manager in 1970 and was named Managing Director in 1980. When HarperCollins acquired Thorsons in 1989, he was appointed to their board, and was named Divisional Managing Director of HarperCollins Trade division in 1993.

He was presented with the Gerry Davies Award for outstanding contribution to the book trade by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland in 2005,was Chairman of the Book Marketing Council from 1986-88, served on the Council of the Publishers Association (PA), was chair of the PA’s Trade Publishers Council and co-chair of the Publishers Association/Booksellers Association Liaison Group, was a board member of Book Industry Communications (BIC), was Chairman of BIC Supply Chain group from 2000-03, was Chairman of World Book Day 2004, and was on the Book Trade Lives Advisory Committee of the British Library’s National Life Story Collection. He is a member of the International Board of Hachette Livre and is a board member of the Association of American Publishers

David was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Sandy Lodge, Hertfordshire and at the Watford College of Technology (Printing Management). He is married to the novelist Elizabeth Noble and has three children.

Beth Ford

Beth Ford is the Chief Operating Officer for Hachette Book Group, USA. She is responsible for all company operating and information technology functions as well as for the administrative, human resources, and strategy departments.

Before joining Hachette in September of 2007, Ms. Ford worked at Scholastic, Inc. for seven years as the Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Information Technology.  Over the past 20 years, she has held numerous IT, supply chain and line operating roles in the consumer packaged goods industry (Pepsi), the quick serve restaurant industry (McDonald’s restaurants network) and the oil industry (Mobil Oil Corporation)

A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Ms. Ford graduated from Iowa State University with a BBA in Management and later received an MBA from Columbia University Business School with an emphasis in Finance.. She is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the School of Business at Iowa State University as well as the National Board of Trustees of the March of Dimes where she sits on the finance and pension committees. She was named by Crain’s New York Business as one of their “40 under 40” Rising Stars in 2003 and was awarded the Citation of Achievement by Iowa State University’s School of Business in 2004.

Publishers' Bios

Publishers' bios and much more information about each of our publishing divisions can be found on the Publishing Groups page.