Andrew Phillips will be the new CEO of Author Solutions, the self-publishing company Penguin Group acquired last year. Phillips has worked for Penguin for more than a decade, most recently as president of Penguin International, based in Delhi, India. The Bookseller reported that he will succeed current CEO Kevin Weiss, who "is to take up a new position to be announced separately next week."
Penguin Group chairman and CEO John Makinson noted that Phillips's "impressive range of talents and experience equip him perfectly to extend the international development of Author Solutions, to build on our network of publishing partnerships, and to strengthen the ties with Penguin companies around the world."
Phillips described self-publishing as "the fastest-growing and most dynamic area of the publishing economy. The launch of Partridge, the first Penguin Author Solutions partnership in India, gave me firsthand experience of the huge opportunities that exist both in developed and emerging markets."
