Moseley Associates: Professional Biographies

Our capabilities, recent experience, and backgrounds


Peter W. Adams

Strategic planning
Acquisitions and divestitures
Operations assessment
Acquisition & merger
Publishing systems
Applications of technology

| (President): Recent Assignments:
  • Review of publishing operations (major learned society);
  • Overhaul of copy flow process (publisher of travel material);
  • Assessment of worldwide fulfillment (major STM publisher);
  • Redesign of technical support for editorial, production, and marketing functions (technical publisher).

  • Background:
    Future Communications Corporation: founding partner.
    Quantum Science Corporation: Program Director, Research Director.
    Harcourt Brace: Director of Information Systems Development (later in-house publishing systems).
    American Book Company: Textbook Editor and Promotion Manager.
    Edwin F. Beschler

    Scientific, technical, and medical
    publishing management

    | Background:
    Birkhäuser Boston, Springer-Verlag: Executive Vice President, Member, Management Committee.
    Harcourt Brace -- Academic Press: President.
    Harcourt Brace -- Grune and Stratton: President.
    Harcourt Brace -- Academic Press: VP, Sales and Marketing,
    (previously) Executive Editor, Acquisitions Editor, Mathematics.
    Edward M. Crane, Jr.

    Professional
    and scientific journal
    and book publishing

    | Background:
    Taylor & Francis (USA): Vice Chairman.
    Council for Financial Aid to Education: Vice President.
    Crane/Russak Co.: Chairman.
    Pitman Publishing Co. (USA): President.
    Litton International Publishing: President.
    Van Nostrand, Reinhold Co.: President.
    Donald F. Farnsworth

    HIgher education and
    Professional book publishing
    Strategic planning
    Acquisitions and divestitures

    | Recent Assignments:
  • Review of strategies and procedures (professional education publisher);
  • Divestitures of college and trade publishers, and lists;

  • Background:
    McGraw-Hill: Group Vice President; Vice President, College Division following assignments as Marketing Director, Senior Editor for engineering, and Publisher for business, economics and engineering.
    Peter C. Grenquist

    Scholarly and trade publishing
    Strategic planning
    Not-for-profit publishing

    | Background:
    Association of American University Presses: Executive Director.
    McGraw-Hill Book Company: General Manager, General Books Division.
    Arco Publishing, Inc.: President and CEO.
    Prentice-Hall, Inc. President, Trade Books Division.
    Carl L. Heimowitz

    Management systems
    In-house publishing
    Publishing and copying technologies
    and systems

    | Recent Assignments:
  • Development of publisher relations for national chain of copy centers; computer requirements (standardized test publisher);
  • Assessment of advanced production and inventory operations (scholarly publisher);
  • Evaluation of systems capabilities of acquired company including assimilation plans (professional publisher).

  • Background:
    Future Communications Corporation: founding partner.
    Harcourt Brace: Director, Management Systems.
    Arthur Young: Director, Tax Information Technology.
    Irving Trust Co.: Management Scientist.
    Mutual Benefit Life Insurance: Operations Analyst.
    Fred Kobrak

    International marketing
    Licensing and publishing of
    Trade and educational books

    | Background:
    Macmillan Publishing Co.: Vice President
    President of Collier Macmillan International.
    Collier Macmillan, Ltd.: Managing Director.
    Crowell Collier & Macmillan Publishers, Ltd.: Director, Intl. Sales and Publishing. .
    Lucien S. Marchand

    Scholarly and professional publishing
    Editorial development
    Marketing strategies

    | Recent Assignments:
  • Selection of publishing partner (learned society)

  • Background:
    Plenum Publishing Company: Director, book and journals programs in mathematics, computer science, business, engineering.
    Petrocelli/Charter: Editor-in-Chief; Sales and Marketing Manager.
    Van Nostrand: Senior Acquisitions Editor, Sales Manager, College.
    Cameron S. Moseley


    | (Founder and Chair Emeritus)
    Background:
    Moseley Associates, Inc.: Founder, President, Chair.
    Curriculum Information Center: Founder and Chairman.
    Xerox Education Group: Vice President, Business Development.
    Harcourt Brace: Senior Vice President and Director; Director of School Department.
    David P. Palmer

    Trade adult and juvenile publishing Electronic publishing

    | Background:
    IBM Electronic Media Management Group: Consultant.
    MesaView Publishing Services: Senior Vice President.
    Reader's Digest: Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, U.S. Books
    Reader's Digest: Senior Editor, U.S. Books.
    Bert C. Paolucci

    Production and distribution of periodicals and books
    Soliciting and evaluating printing bids
    Negotiating printing contracts
    Cost systems for production

    | Recent MAI Assignments:
  • Evaluation of in-house printing operation (major learned society);
  • Workflow study (multi-title book and magazine publisher);
  • Expert testimony (Internal Revenue Service);
  • Detailed analysis of production costs (educational publisher).

  • Background:
    B. Paolucci, Inc: Founder and President.
    Time, Inc.: Business Manager, Corporate Production Department.
    American Heritage: Assistant to the Treasurer. .
    Lloyd L. Rich

    Management, protection, and
    Exploitation of intellectual property

    | Background:
    Intellectual Property Management Ltd.: President.
    Simon & Schuster: Group Vice President.
    Prentice-Hall: Director of Corporate Development.
    Weston Woods: Managing Director.
    Reston Publishing: President.
    Prentice-Hall Media: President/Publisher.
    George Rosato

    Educational publishing
    Start-up enterprises
    Government funding opportunities

    | Background:
    McGraw-Hill School Publishers: General Manager and Publisher.
    Random House Electronic Publishing: CEO, Founder, and Publisher.
    Random House School Division: CEO and Publisher.
    Kenneth Zeigler

    Higher education publishing
    Development strategies
    Acquisition & merger

    | Background:
    West Publishing: Vice President, College.
    Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Executive Vice President, College and School.
    McGraw-Hill: Editor-in-Chief, College.

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