Publishing Business Conference & Expo Announces Leading Industry Executives as Co-Chairs
Hetherington has more than 25 years of senior management experience with publishers including Simon & Schuster, Reader’s Digest and Wolters Kluwer Health. He most recently served as chief financial officer of Columbia University Press.
“Events like the Publishing Business Conference are always valuable,” Hetherington says, “but in these difficult times, new ideas and new ways of doing business are especially important.”
Sateja oversees all information products at Consumers Union, including Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org, the world’s largest publication-based subscription Web site, as well as several other Web sites, newsletters, books, special-interest publications, a syndicated television news service and a mobile-phone application. Consumer Reports has more than 7 million combined paid subscribers to its various information products. A former keynote of the show, Sateja brings strong business-management experience and a proven track record of building brands both in print and online.
“I am very honored and excited to be the conference chair for this year’s Publishing Business Conference,” Sateja says. “We are all experiencing historical and tremendous changes in the economy, the political environment and in our society. All of these changes directly affect our industry and our businesses. Now more than ever, we need to be experts at managing change. This year’s conference will focus on giving you the practical advice and tools that you need to navigate your business in these changing times so that you can experience growth, profits and success for your business.”
The conference program—featuring dozens of sessions and scores of expert speakers—will be announced in the coming weeks. Session topics will address challenges in business management, e-media, audience development, digital, production, manufacturing, workflow, editorial, design, marketing, distribution and more.
Publishing executives interested in speaking at the 2009 Publishing Business Conference & Expo should contact Matt Steinmetz, conference program editor, at MSteinmetz@NAPCO.com or (215) 238-5372.
