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HENRY REATH: Director

Henry Reath served as President and Publisher of the Doubleday Publishing Company where he worked with such bestselling authors as Stephen King, Gay Talese, and Bill Cosby until its sale to Bertelsmann in 1986. During his ten year career at Doubleday he also served as VP Marketing Director of the $200MM Book Club division.

Early career assignments at HarperCollins and WNET/Ch13, led to a position as the Marketing Manager for Doubleday's struggling Doubleday Book Club. Henry’s gift for marketing transformed the struggling club from a breakeven operation to the most powerful, profitable marketer of women's fiction in the country, consistently delivering EBIT in the $10-15MM range.

In 1987 he founded Collectors Reprints, a publisher of direct-marketed book programs concentrating on facsimiles of rare and out of print literary works. He has worked over the past two years with Tucker Capital’s strategic advisory group on a variety of assignments where his focus has been the analysis of marketing and performance data of direct mail companies. From 1996 to 2000 he served as strategic advisor to the Knowledge Environment Collaborative, an Internet joint venture of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Island Press, and the Stanford University Libraries, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

A graduate of Princeton University (BA, Philosophy), Henry is the chair of the board of Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, a non-profit, environmental publisher in Washington, DC, and served as President of The Academy of American Poets in New York City, the largest literary arts organization in the country.

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