Ligature Partners • 401-521-3993

	Ligature Partners is a global retained executive search and consulting firm that specializes in publishing, education products and services, media and interactive media. The company brings the knowledge and expertise of industry executives to the consultative business of executive search and talent assessment. Its principals' prior career experience at leading publishing firms provides Ligature with a unique context for understanding clients' businesses, and with depth and breadth of access to an exceptionally qualified group of sources and candidates.
	Ligature Partners' mission is to provide best-practice executive recruitment, consulting and coaching to our clients and candidates in order to enhance their business performance and support their professional aspirations. We would welcome the opportunity to tell you more about our work and our credentials. WILLA PERLMAN is Managing Partner and founder of Ligature Partners, Inc. She moved into executive search in 2001 after more than 20 years of senior level executive management experience in publishing, intellectual property development and general operating roles. Her prior executive credentials include: President of Hasbro Properties Group, at Hasbro, Inc; President of Golden Books Publishing Group; President & Publisher of Simon & Schuster Children's Books Division; and Vice President, Editorial Director of "Willa Perlman Books," an imprint of the HarperCollins Children's Division. Willa started her publishing career at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich where she held senior level positions in trade book marketing, publicity and advertising and launched the children's trade imprint, "Gulliver Books." She was ultimately named Director of Harcourt's Children's Trade Division and worked collaboratively with Harcourt Education on the development of the highly acclaimed "Treasury of Reading" basal textbook program. Willa@LigaturePartners.com PATTY SULLIVAN joined Ligature Partners in August of 2007 as a Partner. Executive search is a natural extension of the work she has done over the past nine years as founder of p.s. ink., a consulting boutique providing publishing solutions to the book industry; her client base included Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Disney Children's Publishing and the American Academy of Pediatrics. p.s. ink. also provided publishing representation to the entertainment industry. Patty spent close to 20 years in executive positions at three of the world's largest trade publishers: Executive Vice President, Publisher, Golden Books; Senior Vice President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Children's Books Division; and Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, Sales and Marketing at Random House Children's Book Division. Patty began her career at Random House in the special markets division. She then became one of the founding members of a newly-formed children's book and non-book division where she was instrumental in its double-digit growth over more than ten years. In addition, Patty was instrumental in launching Random House Audiobooks as well as the video and software divisions. She has worked with all of the major children's licensors as well as bestselling authors and illustrators. Patty@LigaturePartners.com JUDY DETUNCQ joined the firm in 2007 as a Partner. For more than 30 years she has directed measurable sales and marketing improvements at America's leading educational publishers, most recently as a Senior Vice President at Scholastic, Inc., where she supervised a professional staff of specialists in editorial, sales, marketing, art/design and operations. Her experience covers direct marketing and sales campaigns reaching multiple educational channels: direct to schools through mail, telesales and sales representatives; parent-teacher stores; and trade/mass markets and online. Judy has demonstrated her abilities to identify opportunities and to diagnose problems, organize to confront them and introduce strategies that lead to growth in sales and improvement in marketing techniques. In addition, she has taken the lead in strategic planning, resulting in improved financial results and entry into new businesses - decoratives, workbooks, small instructional programs and trade book libraries. Judy@LigaturePartners.com ANTHONY LUCCI joined Ligature Partners in September of 2006 as Chief Operating Officer, bringing to the firm a strong background in strategic planning, financial management, and business development across a variety of consumer products and entertainment categories. Anthony was a founding member of the Hasbro Properties Group (HPG), a division within Hasbro, Inc. which is responsible for the development of entertainment and licensing programs around Hasbro's brands. While initially serving as HPG Divisional CFO, Anthony was involved in all major license negotiations across all licensing categories. Anthony then assumed worldwide responsibility for all licensing and business development activities for the HPG gaming businesses, where he developed and maintained business relationships with industry leaders across all forms of gaming. Prior to Hasbro, Anthony held various positions of increasing responsibility in financial and strategic management at Allied Signal and The Stanley Works. Anthony@LigaturePartners.com ELIZABETH GARZARELLI is a Principal with Ligature Partners. She joined the firm in 2005 and has six years of experience in executive recruiting and executive recruiting research, spanning the fields of publishing, commercial finance and pharmaceuticals. Her particular expertise is within the educational publishing field. A former licensed professional counselor and executive coach, Elizabeth calls upon those same skills in identifying and interviewing top talent in executives. Additionally, Elizabeth is an internationally-certified Global Career Development Facilitator. Elizabeth@LigaturePartners.com JAMIE CAVANAGH recently joined Ligature Partners as a Senior Researcher. She has over 8 years of experience as a Senior Recruiter at K2 Partnering Solutions and Randstad NA. Her experience has been focused on information technology, biotechnology, financial services and business operations and administration. Jamie has a proven track record of identifying hard-to-find skill sets and a keen interest in child development and education. Jamie@LigaturePartners.com SCOUT IOZZIA is an Executive Assistant with Ligature Partners. She has a background in recruiting as well as nine years of publishing experience as an Editorial Assistant, Executive Assistant and Advertising Account Representative. She has worked for Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education, CFO Magazine and European Voice, Economist Group publications, and the Hartford Courant. Scout@LigaturePartners.com	Our Clients - We have been privileged to work with some of the best companies in the marketplace, a sampling of which include: Pearson Curriculum Group Pearson Assessment and Information Educate Inc. SRA/The Wright Group, McGraw-Hill Kaplan K12 Learning Scholastic Education Candlewick Press Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Carson-Dellosa Cambium Learning Fodor's Publishing Primedia Business Solutions Achieve3000 National Geographic School Publishing Harcourt Achieve Harvard Business Press Teachscape Voyager Expanded Learning The College Board Yale University Press Adams Media Andrews McMeel Publishing Heinemann Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pearson Assessment & Information Dorling Kindersley National Evaluation Systems Questar Assessment Educational Testing Service Riverside Publishing The Princeton Review Disney/Hyperion F+W Publications Monotype Wolters Kluwer Primedia The Dial Corporation Association of American Publishers Millmark Education Measured Progress The John Hopkins University Press Course Smart Chicago University Press HIT Entertainment woa.tv.com Smarterville The American Academy of Arts & Sciences Conferences & Memberships - All of our consultants attend major industry conferences, and we hold memberships with the key trade associations. This ensures a depth and breadth of knowledge within our practice areas that provides the context for best practice candidate assessment and identification. Ligature Partners attends many if not all of the following conferences: FETC AAP School Division Annual Meeting CoSyn K-12 Networking Conference NSTA NCTE NCTM SllA Ed Tech Summit Book Expo America CCSSO NECC SHOPA AEP Summit EdNet Books & Trade Publications - Our consultants regularly read trade publications and stay abreast of new thought leadership in books about management and executive leadership. Recently we have read the following books that we found enlightening: *Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die* by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Reed Business Information) *Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies* by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff (Harvard Business Press)