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Effective December 12, Evan Schnittman, executive v-p, chief marketing and sales officer at Hachette Book Group in 2012, is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities, Hachette said. With his departure, the position of chief marketing and sales officer is being eliminated.
At the same time, Chris Murphy is being promoted to senior v-p, group sales director, and will oversee all of Hachette's sales groups, including physical, digital, CBA, James Patterson publishing, international, clients, children's books, special markets and strategy and operations. He has been with the company for 15 years, most recently as senior v-p, retail sales.
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch said that Murphy has been "instrumental in the steady growth in HBG's sales, and in the management and organization of our sales team. He has provided invaluable experience and leadership across broad swaths of our business, and worked closely with our major authors and publishing divisions. Chris will join HBG's Executive Management Board, and will report to me."
Pietsch called Schnittman "a powerful agent of change [who] has improved HBG's sales processes and organization greatly. Evan brought the sales group into closer collaboration with our publishing groups than ever before. He combined digital and physical book sales, created the Sales Strategy and Operations group, and modernized our approach to sales conferences, coop, and catalogs. He worked with HBG's publishers to remake our approach to advertising, and partnered with Hachette UK on a combined and expanded international sales team. In a time of rapid technological change, he has kept Hachette's sales group in the vanguard. I want to thank Evan for his many significant contributions to Hachette. We will be sorry to see him go."