1. Mark A. Gompertz
An Illustrated Work Biography

2. A Distinguished Publishing Career: bringing great content to consumers

3. Creative Director Content Extensions
Hearst Magazines
• Developing and executing compelling and substantive content for the company’s print and digital
brands, creating a string of bestsellers .

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

5. Hyperion Books
Executive Producer
Enhanced eBook
Apple hailed it as the #1 enhanced eBook of 2011

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Eclectic Taste…Consistent Results

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

11. Publisher of Avon Trade Paperbacks
I was one of “Fortune’s Favorites” having the opportunity
to edit the great Colleen McCullough

12. Multiple bestsellers including:

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

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

15. 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