At Arcadia Publishing, after two years serving as both CFO and COO, Charles Gallagher is leaving the company and returning to his home in New York, effective June 4. CEO Brittain Phillips called Gallagher "a central figure in Arcadia's growth and transformation, including outsourcing our warehouse and fulfillment operations, major upgrades to our IT infrastructure, new systems and processes to enable rapid growth with new customers, and the acquisitions of Wildsam and Pelican Publishing. The leadership Charles brought to these and other projects was a key factor in what we've achieved in these past few years."
With Gallagher's departure, the company is separating the roles of CFO and COO. It has started a search to find a new CFO.
 |
|
| Matthew Gildea | |
As for the COO, effective June 7, Matthew Gildea is being promoted to the position. Gildea joined Arcadia Publishing in 2019 as business development manager and has an extensive bookselling background: he had been book team business director at Joseph-Beth Booksellers and earlier held executive positions at Hastings Entertainment, Borders Group, and several independent bookstores, including Chapter Two, which was in Charleston, S.C., home of Arcadia. He is also president of the board of directors of the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.
Phillips said that in his time at Arcadia, Gildea "has played an integral role in driving growth through the development of significant new customer relationships, working hands on with those customers to deliver results."