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, Managing Partner and Founder of Ligature Partners, Inc., 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 ARDITH MYERS joined Ligature Partners in January of 2012 as a partner. She has been in executive search since 1999 and previously worked for Boston Search Group – an executive search firm focused on education and technology – where she developed a specialization in K-12 and post-secondary education. Before that, Ardith was a partner at Whitehead Mann Group, working on technology and healthcare searches and handling their executive assessment practice in the US. Prior to executive search, Ardith managed her own consulting business for ten years, working with clients in Boston, New York and London. Her consulting assignments involved recruitment strategies, organizational and executive development, as well as team dynamics. Early in her career, she worked at Pepsi in strategic planning and for Genex Corporation, a pioneer biotechnology start-up, in marketing communications and public affairs. Ardith has a M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary. Ardith@ligaturepartners.com AMIR COHEN joined Ligature Partners in 2010 as CFO. He is a seasoned publishing executive with a career that started more that 20 years ago at the Schocken Group in Israel. Since 1991 when he joined the Forward as business manager, Amir has been practicing his trade in the US. He led the New Jersey Jewish News from years of deficits into seven straight years of growing profitability while expanding its brand throughout the state. Amir owned and operated Mediabuy LLC, an advertising agency and consulting firm. Before joining Ligature Partners, he served as CEO at JFL Media, a Massachusetts based non-profit. Amir has an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Amir@ligaturepartners.com. ELIZABETH GARZARELLI joined the firm in 2005 and is a principal with Ligature Partners. A former licensed professional counselor and executive coach, Elizabeth has seven years of experience in executive recruiting. Focusing on mid-level to senior management positions, she specializes in the broad range of the publishing field, including books, magazines, online media and journals. She has a particular expertise in educational publishing, educational assessment and educational technology for both K-12 and higher education. Elizabeth partners with clients and candidates to guide successful placements, aligning business strategies, cultural fit and long-term business requirements. She builds deep, "trusted advisor" relationships with a keen appreciation for the unique requirements of each individual search. Elizabeth is an internationally-certified Global Career Development Facilitator. Elizabeth@LigaturePartners.com SCOUT IOZZIA has been an executive assistant with Ligature Partners since 2007. 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 previously worked for Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education, CFO Magazine and European Voice, Economist Group publications, and the Hartford Courant. Scout@LigaturePartners.com CLAIRE COOK has been a research & administrative assistant with Ligature Partners since September 2011. She joined the world of executive search with a background in academic research, having studied cognitive science as a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, specializing in children's cognition. Claire worked as a researcher and an affiliate of developmental psychology labs at Brown University and the University of British Columbia- Vancouver prior to her work at MIT. Her interest in the science of children's and adults' learning – as well as a lifelong love of reading – brought her to Ligature Partners with a natural curiosity about the publishing, educational technology and interactive media industries. Claire@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 Educate Inc. SRA/The Wright Group, McGraw-Hill Kaplan K12 Learning Staff Development for Educators (SDE) 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 Pearson Higher Education F+W Publications Monotype Wolters Kluwer Primedia The Dial Corporation Association of American Publishers Millmark Education Measured Progress The John Hopkins University Press CourseSmart Chicago University Press HIT Entertainment woa.tv.com Smarterville The American Academy of Arts & Sciences ASCD Corwin Highlights for Children, Inc. Pearson Education North America Time To Know Educate Online Common Sense Media Chronicle Books Little Kids Rock Primrose Schools Pearson Higher Education Pearson ELL Business Unit 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)