At the Hachette Book Group mass merchandise division:
Jerry Jensen has rejoined the company as the executive director of mass merchandise. He was most recently at Simon & Schuster, responsible for sales of adult titles into all club accounts. Before S&S, he was an important part of the HBG mass merch team.
Dan Kosack has been named director, mass merchandise, effective August 19. He joins HBG from Ingram Content Group, where he worked as a senior national account manager. Before that, he spent many years as national accounts manager for Walmart at Penguin Random House.
Avi Molder has been named national account manager, airports, effective August 19. He has been a member of the digital team.
Molly McLaughlin has been promoted to associate national accounts manager. In addition to sales responsibility for the warehouse clubs, she will be a key point of contact for the Readerlink account.
Tishana Knight, senior national accounts manager, will now serve as the inventory and operational point person for the mass merch channel while keeping her sales responsibilities for grocery/drug and specialty accounts.