Colin Shields has joined Lonely Planet as senior director of sales & marketing, North America, a newly created position. Shields was most recently v-p and executive director of global digital & international sales at Simon & Schuster, where he worked for more than 20 years.
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Sam Kusek has joined Oni Press as director of business development. He most recently was senior outreach lead for Kickstarter and earlier was special projects manager at BOOM! Studios and operations manager for Tiny Onion. He also owns and operates Cave of Monsters Games, a tabletop roleplaying game publisher in Portland, Ore.