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Mark A. GompertzAn Illustrated Work Biography

A Distinguished Publishing Career: bringing great content to consumers

Creative Director Content ExtensionsHearst Magazines• Developing and executing compelling and substantive content for the company’s print and digital

brands, creating a string of bestsellers .

Using archival and new material and leveraging marketing assets to create new revenue streams

Hyperion Books Executive Producer Enhanced eBook

Apple hailed it as the #1 enhanced eBook of 2011

Executive Vice President Digital Publishing at Simon & Schuster (CBS Corporation)

• Newly created position, reporting to the CEO• Responsible for the strategies, processes and implementation of adult

and children eBooks.• Brought an editorial perspective to its imprints, authors, agents, sales

and marketing departments

Original and bestselling books as publisher of Touchstone/Fireside (Simon & Schuster) including:

The novels of Philippa Gregory with over 9 million copies sold in the US alone

This New York Times bestseller spawned Three best-selling sequels.

Even as a publisher, always an editor

An Oprah Book Club pick, this book hit bestseller lists all over the Country and sold over 1 million copies.

Eclectic Taste…Consistent Results

As trade paperback publisher at Touchstone/Fireside, many award-winning and bestselling titles.

Publisher of Avon Trade Paperbacks

I was one of “Fortune’s Favorites” having the opportunity to edit the great Colleen McCullough

Multiple bestsellers including:

As a senior editor at Crown, I acquired and edited many books including:35 Weeks on the NY

Times bestseller

list

Began my career at The Overlook Press where many of the books I worked on are still in print

SKILL SETS• Innovator with extensive knowledge of end-to-end book publishing• Digital expertise that has kept me current• Three years of magazine and consumer behavior experience• Collaborative relationship builder (internal and external)• Content creation and editing skills• Copy writing• Communications• Management• Constant revenue producer