Most recently, John Sargent (he/him) served as the CEO of Macmillan Publishers, the global trade division with major trade publishing operations in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Germany with smaller operations in South Africa, India and China. In addition, he was the CEO of Macmillan Learning and on the executive board of Holtzbrinck. Previously, John headed U.S. operations of Holtzbrinck, including all of their trade companies: the Macmillan Higher Education group, St. Martin’s Scholarly and Reference, Hanley & Belfus medical publishers, and Scientific American. He started at Holtzbrinck as CEO of St. Martin’s Press. Prior to that, John was CEO of Dorling Kindersley, Inc. and president of the Children’s Book Division of Simon & Schuster. He served on the Executive Board of the Association of American Publishers for 25 years and on the Executive Committee of Graham Windham, a New York foster care agency, for more than 30 years. John received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.