David "Skip" Prichard, President and CEO of the recently formed Ingram Content Group Inc., has announced a new organisational structure designed to make it easier to do business with the new company.
Ingram Content Group was recently created to fully integrate Ingram's content companies, which include Ingram Book Group, Lightning Source Inc. and Ingram Digital. The group will now be organised as a market-focused organisation which is expected to better serve all of its retail customers, libraries, publishers and partners.
Services to publishers include Lightning Source print-on-demand, Ingram Digital's CoreSource, Ingram Marketing Group, Ingram Publisher Services and Ingram Book's buying department. This new publisher-focused organisation will be led by Chief Content Officer Phil Ollila. All of Ingram's customers in the library and retail channels will be served by one organisation, led by Chief Commercial Officer Shawn Everson.
The company also announced the appointment of key organisational leaders within the Content and Commercial organisations. In the Commercial organisation, Rich Rosy, former General Manager of NetLibrary, will head all of Ingram's library businesses including Ingram Library Services, MyiLibrary and Coutts. Dan Sheehan, currently Vice President of Sales for Ingram Book Field Sales, will also take on responsibility as General Manager of Ingram Periodicals.
In the Content organisation, David Taylor, President of Lightning Source, will be responsible for all publisher content acquisition activities. Mark Ouimet will become General Manager of Ingram Publisher Services.
The realignment is expected to make Ingram's 'integrated suite of services' even more accessible and functional for its channel partners, helping them sell more content to more customers.
