John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, will be featured at this year’s Frankfurt CEO Talk on October 10, 2018, from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm in the Frankfurt Pavilion. The CEO Talk will be presented by Livres Hebdo (France), with Bookdao (China), buchreport (Germany), PublishNews (Brazil), Publishers Weekly (USA), and the Frankfurter Buchmesse Business Club, featuring ‘Global 50 - the Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2018.’
John Sargent will be interviewed for 60 minutes by the editors of the trade publications on changing consumer habits and new international media competition around storytelling. The event will be opened by Katja Böhne, Vice President Marketing & Communications of Frankfurter Buchmesse, and chaired by Rüdiger Wischenbart.
A cooperation of five leading trade media outlets, the Frankfurt CEO Talk traditionally features the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, which has been updated every year since 2007 and currently represents 53 companies that each report revenues from publishing of over 150 million euros. At Frankfurter Buchmesse, the CEO Talk is a long-established tradition, and since 2014 it is part of the Frankfurter Buchmesse Business Club programme.
John Sargent is the Executive Vice President of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and CEO of Macmillan. He is responsible for Macmillan higher education business as well as for managing the global trade business. Formerly, Sargent ran the US operations of Holtzbrinck, including all the US trade companies, the Macmillan Higher Education group, St. Martin’s Scholarly and Reference, Hanley & Belfus Medical Publishers and Scientific American. He started at Holtzbrinck as CEO of St. Martin’s Press. Sargent has also served as CEO of Dorling Kindersley, Inc. and as the President of the Children’s Book Division of Simon & Schuster. He serves on the executive board of the Association of American Publishers. He has been on the executive committee of Graham Windham, a New York foster care agency, for over 25 years including four years as its Chairman. Sargent received a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University.
All book fair visitors with a ticket valid on October 10 are invited to attend the CEO Talk in the Frankfurt Pavilion.
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