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Westminister, MD-based Penguin Random House has Promoted Robin Sutton as Vice President 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
Robin Sutton is the Vice President of Human Resources at Penguin Random House. Previously, Robin was the Vice President of Human Resources at Bertelsmann. Prior to that, Robin had also worked at Navy Resale System and NAVRESSO. Robin earned her BS degree in Personnel and Industrial Relations from State University of New York College at Brockport in 1982 and MS in Labor Studies with Labour Relations as specialization from University of the District of Columbia in 1985.
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