Maverick Announces new sales representation agreements, personnel and consultancy partnerships

Dorset, UK, 6th October 2011  – Maverick Outsource Services, the specialist consultancy and outsource company for the publishing industry, today announced extended sales representation agreements for two publisher clients, as well as new service partnerships in recruitment and technical consultancy. 

Mariam Hasan has joined Maverick as Sales and Publishing Associate and will be responsible for a new sales representation agreement for Woodhead Publishing’s ebook platform, Woodhead Publishing Online (www.woodheadpublishingonline.com), in North America. This agreement includes representing Woodhead Publishing at both consortia and individual institution level and further extends the work of Maverick’s European sales team, who have been supporting Woodhead Publishing Online sales in the UK and Europe since June, 2011.

Mariam has over 12 years senior international publishing experience and brings valuable knowledge of the region to support Maverick’s expanding operations in the North America region. Her expertise includes past positions in global product development at ProQuest Information and Learning for the ABI/INFORM suite of databases as well as sales management and content development for 30 peer-reviewed journals at Palgrave Macmillan. Most recently, Mariam worked for Emerald as Vice President, Canada where she significantly increased Emerald's local market presence and built a strong market for their e-books. Mariam currently provides local market strategy formulation and sales management support for Maverick's clients and their e-book products and services.

At the same time, Maverick is also pleased to announce that Mark Furneaux, previously Managing Director, European Operations at CSA, has joined Maverick as a Senior Associate for Sales and Business Development in EMEA and International. Mark has a wealth of electronic publishing experience, from both a strategic and day to day, operational perspective and headed CSA’s European activities with responsibility for all regional sales, marketing, editorial and G&A operations. He later joined ProQuest as part of the CSA/ProQuest merger before leaving in 2007 to join Wize Nordic as Business Development Director. Mark will provide publisher sales and marketing support in European markets as well as assisting Maverick’s own business development initiatives in International regions.

In related news, Maverick are delighted to announce that they are now representing The Charleston Advisor on a global level, with responsibility for both national consortia as well as individual institution sales. The agreement covers all territories (excluding the US) and also includes supporting renewal acquisition and sales related marketing as well as generating new sales for this specialist and high profile industry publication.

And finally, in the UK, Maverick has established partnership affiliations with two publishing industry service providers, Morgan Healey Recruitment and i-Publishing Consultants, to further extend its range of solutions for publisher clients.

In the agreement with Morgan Healey, Maverick will provide recruitment support in two distinct areas.  In the first instance, Maverick will use it global network of contacts and associates to assist Morgan Healey in identifying suitable candidates for permanent positions they may be asked to fill. In the second instance, Maverick will also provide interim management and fixed term project based support for Morgan Healey clients whilst they are engaged in the permanent recruitment process.

Also, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Maverick and i-Publishing Consultants will embark on a new reciprocal arrangement whereby both parties will mutually support each other's technical consultancy capabilities. As well as Maverick personnel being in attendance on i-Publishing’s stand to join discussions concerning the content delivery and community based platforms i-Publishing represents, the two companies will also use the show as a starting point to explore how they can best use their combined expertise to help publishers in all aspects of technology and platform development, content production and conversion as well as designing, managing and implementing custom built eContent solutions.

About Woodhead Publishing Limited
Woodhead Publishing Limited is an independent international publishing company publishing in the areas of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Materials and Engineering, Welding and Metallurgy, Textile Technology, Energy & Environmental Technology and Finance, Commodities and Business Studies and Mathematics. For further information, please visit www.woodheadpublishing.com or www.woodheadpublishingonline.com.

About The Charleston Advisor
The Charleston Advisor publishes critical reviews of online resources for libraries. To maintain a high level of accuracy and integrity, all reviews are peer-reviewed by experienced librarians. Reviewers come from all areas of librarianship and from all types of libraries, ensuring that products are reviewed by people who actually use them. For further information, please visit http://www.charlestonco.com.

About i-Publishing Consultants Ltd
i-Publishing Consultants helps organisations create new value by enabling them to take control of their content and engage more effectively with their customers and other ‘communities of interest’. To achieve this we provide strategic and project based digital marketing and technology consultancy and also design and deliver interactive solutions that meet next generation needs. For further information, please visit www.i-publishingconsultants.com.

About Morgan Healey
Morgan Healey is a leading international executive search & recruitment business that operates within STM publishing (Science, Technology, Medical) academic & digital information. With over 25 years industry experience, we work with the most prestigious publishing companies across the world. For further information, please visit http://www.morganhealey.com.