Alison Goff, Group CEO of the Quarto Group, is stepping down at the end of the year for personal reasons, the company announced. She will remain as an advisor to the board. CK Lau, president of the Quarto Group and executive director of Lion Rock Group and OPUS Group will become interim CEO, effective November 1.
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Goff commented, "I've very much enjoyed my three years at Quarto, and I hope I have been a catalyst for change."
Lau said, "I've enjoyed working with Alison; her dedication to her work and care for staff were greatly valued."
Quarto Group said that during Goff's tenure, "she led a full corporate rebrand project with award winning design group Pentagram, and introduced several new imprints to the group, including Carnival, a cooking and wellness imprint. Under Alison's leadership, both the U.K. and the U.S. saw several New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellers--including Little People BIG DREAMS: Taylor Swift and The Ultimate Air Fryer Cookbook. Additional achievements include the perennial bestselling Beautiful Boards series from Meagan Brown and the category bestseller How to Draw Super Cute Things with Bobbie Goods. Quarto's custom division also saw continued growth under Alison's tenure. In addition, during her time as Group CEO, Quarto successfully implemented an in-house enterprise relationship program, Quest, making it one of the few indie publishers to create a fully independent in-house publishing workflow solution."