What Happened?
New York, NY-based Penguin Random House has Promoted Neil Morrison as Group Director of Human Resources
About the Company
Penguin Random House is the world`s largest trade book publisher. Worldwide, the company is comprised of the adult and children`s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and Penguin`s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial`s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world`s most widely read authors. Our mission at Penguin Random House is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere. We are committed to championing freedom of expression, and recognize the cultural responsibility we have to advance the reading experience for our society now and for future generations. Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 75% and 25%, respectively.
About the Person
After starting his working life as a lecturer in Psychology, Neil took his first role in HR management in 1996. For the next 12 years he worked in a variety of specialist and generalist HR roles in FTSE100 companies, including Rentokil Initial and GUS (which latterly became Home Retail Group). Neil joined the Random House Group in September 2008 taking responsibility for Human Resources, Learning and Development and Facilities. In November 2010 Neil was appointed to the main board. Neil is a regular commentator on Human Resources and workplace issues and has written for a number of trade and generalist publications and websites on a range of topics.
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