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Madeline McIntosh is to return to Random House Inc in the newly created position of president, sales, operations, and digital, reporting to chief executive Markus Dohle. McIntosh left Random House last year to become Amazon's director of Kindle content acquisition for Europe. She will now relocate back to New York to take up the position on 1st December.
McIntosh will also join the Random House International Executive Board, where she will help future global development, including its worldwide digital strategy. In the US, she will be tasked with unifying the group's physical and digital sales efforts for its adult, children’s, and international titles, distribution, publishing operations and IT.
Her direct reports include Andrew Weber, senior vice president, operations & technology; Jaci Updike, senior vice president, director, Random House adult sales; Joan DeMayo, senior vice president, director, children’s sales, director, special markets sales; and Bonnie Ammer, executive vice president, international sales. Before leaving for Amazon last year, she was publisher of Random House's audio division, after 14 years with the company.
In a letter to staff, Dohle said: "These busy days we all have many workplace priorities, but for our company none is more imperative than the challenge to respond even more rapidly, creatively, and collaboratively to daily and long-range publishing and technology opportunities, as well as to marketplace change."