Erin Simpson has been named director of the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau. She was formerly agent director at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau and earlier worked at the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau and the Business Journals division of Advance Publications.
With the appointment and effective April 1, Simon & Schuster is making its speakers bureau, founded in 2008, into an in-house venture, serving all of the company's adult and children's publishing groups and imprints. The speakers bureau has been managed by Greater Talent Network.
Jonathan Karp, president of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, said, "We thank Don Epstein and his outstanding team at Greater Talent for their work on behalf of our author speakers and in establishing the bureau as an ongoing service. With Erin Simpson's appointment, we look forward to providing in-house support for our roster of popular speakers."