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| Anke Steinecke | |
Effective June 30, Kathy Trager is retiring as executive v-p, general counsel, Penguin Random House to divide her time between Washington, D.C., where her husband teaches as a professor part time, and New York, where she will resume teaching a publishing course this fall at New York University. She's also awaiting the arrival of two grandchilden.
She originally joined the Bantam Doubleday Dell legal department from Macmillan in 1987. CEO Markus Dohle called her "one of the most accomplished General Counsels in publishing ever" and "a deeply valued and admired member of our North America board." He added, "With her formidable experience and great insightfulness, she defines excellence in so many ways."
Effective July 1, Anke Steinecke, senior v-p, associate general counsel, is being promoted to executive v-p, general counsel, Penguin Random House U.S. and will become a member of the North America board and secretary of the Penguin Random House board of directors.
She joined Random House in 2000 from the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, is an expert in intellectual property and First Amendment law and has served as primary counsel for the Knopf Doubleday Group for more than 10 years. She has also been PRH's lead in-house attorney and advisor on mergers and acquisitions, such as Golden Books, Ten Speed Press, the trade publishing business of Santillana and the merger of Penguin Random House.