Russell Evans Named Director of Business Development for Hachette UK Distribution and Hachette Book Group US Distribution 

James Linney Named CFO of Distribution at Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group 

NEW YORK (November 20, 2024) — Russell Evans has been named Director of Business Development for Hachette UK Distribution and Hachette Book Group US Distribution (HBGUS Distribution), it was announced today by Matt Wright, CEO of Hachette UK Distribution and HBGUS Distribution. Evans will be responsible for developing client services at Hachette UK and HBGUS Distribution and attracting new client publishers for both territories. James Linney will take on the new role of CFO of Distribution for Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group. 

Evans previously served as Business Development Director of Hachette UK Distribution and Linney as its Finance Director. Evans and Linney have been instrumental in the success of Hachette UK Distribution over the last three years, and both will report into Wright. Together with Wright, Evans and Linney will collaborate with local management teams in both countries to improve service and grow the business internationally. 

Todd McGarity, VP, Corporate Business Development & Strategy, will continue to support and develop US client business and work closely with Evans, while continuing to report to Richard Kitson, Deputy CEO for Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK. 

HBGUS Distribution draws together all order management, fulfilment, and cash collection activities in the US for Hachette Book Group and its third-party client publishers, which represent 50 percent of the business. Services for client publishers are performed by the warehouse operations based in Indiana, the Fulfilment team based in both Indiana and Boston and supported by the Credit Control and Client Accounting teams based in Boston. 

Hachette UK Distribution is a division of Hachette UK and provides leading-edge fulfilment and warehousing services to over twenty publishers, specializing in a wide variety of sectors including trade, illustrated, educational, academic, professional, schools and children’s books. With over 65 million units dispatched annually, it delivers books and other media worldwide to customers from its state-of-the-art facility at the Hely Hutchinson Centre (HHC). 

About Hachette Book Group 

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, and Workman Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to other publishing companies. Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize and other major honors. We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher. Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com, and YouTube. 

About Hachette UK 

Our mission at Hachette UK is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. 

We are one of the UK’s largest publishing groups, with 12 autonomous divisions and over 50 imprints with a rich and diverse history. We are the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business. Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Little, Brown, Orion, John Murray Press, Dialogue Books, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Quercus, Bookouture and Octopus. Hachette Children’s Group publishes a diverse range of books for children of all ages and Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools. In 2022, we welcomed Paperblanks, the second-largest premium stationery brand in the world, to our group. 

We have offices around the UK, including our headquarters in London and the Hely Hutchinson Centre (HHC) for distribution in Didcot. We have subsidiaries in several other regions, including Australia, India, Ireland, Jamaica and New Zealand. 

US Press Contact: Gabrielle Gambrell Gabrielle.Gambrell@hbgusa.com 

UK Press Contact: Chloë Johnson-Hill Chloe.Johnson-Hill@hachette.co.uk