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Evan Schnittman is leaving Oxford University Press after eight years, to become managing director for group sales and marketing at Bloomsbury. Schnittman, who is currently vice president of global corporate & business development, with particular focus on digital partnerships, at OUP, begins in the newly-created role on 2nd August.
He will lead Bloomsbury’s sales and marketing in the UK, US, and Germany across all divisions of the group.
Schnittman has more than 24 years of publishing-related business experience including executive vice president at The Princeton Review, senior editor at Little, Brown, and editorial and sales positions at FA Davis. He started his publishing career at Barnes & Noble’s main store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan.
Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury, said: "I am delighted to welcome Evan to Bloomsbury. The creation of the role of a worldwide head of sales and marketing and the appointment of a highly experienced American with considerable digital experience reflects our view of the future of the publishing market place."
Schnittman said: "This job is the best of all possible worlds. Bloomsbury is an incredible publishing house, with an incredible history - it is both entrepreneurial and established, trade and academic - so it's really exciting to be joining.
"I will be able to really start looking at the digital future, and how it affects wider publishing – trade books in particular have a real digital life these days, so I'm getting to do all the things I love."