Barnes & Noble Education Appoints Jonathan Shar as Senior Vice President, Revenue & Product Development
25 Juli 2018 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED), a
leading provider of educational products and services solutions for
higher education and K-12, today announced that Jonathan Shar has
been appointed to the newly-created leadership position of Senior
Vice President, Revenue & Product Development, effective July
25, 2018. Mr. Shar will report to Barnes & Noble Education’s
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Huseby.
Mr. Shar has more than twenty years of experience in digital
consumer marketing, new product development, revenue enhancement
and successful commercialization. In his new role, Mr. Shar will be
responsible for identifying and developing products and services to
deliver innovation, growth and increased profitability across
Barnes & Noble Education’s business segments and offerings,
including the Company’s new reporting segment, Digital Student
Solutions (DSS), Barnes & Noble College’s (BNC) First Day™
inclusive access solution, LoudCloud’s Courseware, Analytics and
LMS offerings, and BNC’s and MBS’ services to publishers.
“We are pleased to welcome Jonathan to the Barnes & Noble
Education team,” said Michael P. Huseby, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Barnes & Noble Education. “BNED has a proven
history of delivering outstanding services to our educational
partners. As we transform our company to add more integrated
digital offerings to our ecosystem, both for the institutional and
direct-to-student markets, Jon’s expertise and leadership will be
essential in helping us to accelerate that transformation.”
“I have actively followed Barnes & Noble Education’s growth
and success over the last three years, and I am excited to join the
Company as it continues its transformation towards digital,” said
Mr. Shar. “I look forward to leveraging my deep experience in
consumer marketing, e-commerce, digital product development and
higher education to enhance the Company’s existing services and
solutions, and develop new assets that will bring the Company to
new levels of innovation, growth and profitability.”
About Jonathan Shar
Jonathan Shar is a senior marketing and general management
executive with a proven track record in consumer marketing, digital
media, e-commerce, B2B lead generation, sales and revenue growth,
and new product development. He most recently served as Chief
Marketing Officer at Akademos, Inc., a disruptive and growing
e-commerce and digital marketing company that provides online
bookstore services, digital learning materials and real-time
analytics to colleges and universities. He previously was the
General Manager of NOOK Digital Content at Barnes & Noble, Inc.
where he oversaw business development, product development and
marketing for the Global NOOK Newsstand, NOOK Video and NOOK Apps
digital businesses. Prior to his nearly five years with NOOK, he
served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at CNNMoney,
responsible for the CNNMoney website and mobile franchise. Prior to
that, he was Vice President of Consumer Marketing at Sports
Illustrated Group and Director of Consumer Marketing for FORTUNE
Magazine Group. Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Tufts University and has an MBA from the University of
Michigan.
ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION, INC.
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED) is a
leading provider of higher education and K-12 educational products
and solutions. Through its Barnes & Noble College and MBS
Textbook Exchange segments, Barnes & Noble Education operates
1,444 physical and virtual bookstores across the U.S., serving more
than 6 million students and faculty. Through its Digital Student
Solutions segment, the Company offers a suite of digital software,
content and services including direct-to-student study tools,
serving approximately 100,000 subscribers in more than 15 different
countries and receiving more than 20 million unique monthly
visitors to its sites. The Company also operates one of the largest
textbook wholesale distribution channels in the United States. For
more information please visit www.bned.com.
BNED companies include: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers,
LLC, MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC, BNED LoudCloud, LLC, Student
Brands, LLC, and Promoversity, LLC. General information on Barnes
& Noble Education may be obtained by visiting the Company's
corporate website: www.bned.com.
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