Ananth Padmanabhan has been named the CEO of HarperCollins India. Prior to this development, he served as the senior vice president of sales at Penguin Random House.
Padmanabhan will report to the CEO of HarperCollins UK, Charlie Redmayne. His start date has been set for October 2015.
Padmanabhan gave this statement in the press release: “It is a great privilege to have been offered this opportunity, at a time of such rapid change in the Indian publishing industry. HarperCollins is a company I have long admired; for the breadth of its publishing and, in Collins, its fast growing education business. HarperCollins has one of the most experienced and dynamic teams in publishing and I am greatly looking forward to working with them.”