Jamie Raab has been promoted to president and publisher of Grand Central Publishing, where she has been senior v-p and publisher. CEO David Young commented: "In Jamie's two and a half decades with the company, she and her team have created a diverse publishing program that spans just about every genre--commercial fiction and literary novels, celebrity bios and serious politics, business, romance, humor, and lifestyle--putting real muscle behind the campaigns and making GCP a fixture on bestseller lists.... Jamie is a brave and brilliant publisher, a trusted leader in the company, and an impassioned champion of authors. Here superb instincts and her tenacity are widely known in our industry, and she is a true force in the world of publishing.
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Andrea Cascardi has joined Egmont USA as managing director and publisher. She was formerly an agent at the Transatlantic Literary Agency and earlier was associate publishing director at Random House Children's Books for the Knopf and Crown imprints.