Our Team | Playaway Products

Senior Leadership

Gene Lamarca

Chief Executive Officer

Reading Recommendations:

Amos Decker series, Will Robie series, and Angels and Demons

Julie Karas

Chief Financial Officer

Reading Recommendations:

Carrie Soto is Back, The Nightingale and Daisy Jones and the Six

Torin Cone

Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Reading Recommendations:

Demon Copperhead
and Wild Robot

Dave Oster

Sr. Manager, Operations

Reading Recommendations:

Unbroken, and
‍The Informant

Stephanie Trivison

Sr. Product Manager

Reading Recommendations:

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and James

Management

Chris Goggins

Content Operations Manager

Reading Recommendations:

Hatchet, Think Again,
and Dune

Elisa Khanna

Talent Manager

Reading Recommendations:

The Light We Carry, Habits of Peacemaker,
and Change Sings

Cindy Klotzman

Accounting Manager

Reading Recommendations:

The Vanishing Half, Daisy Jones and The Six, and Someone Else's Shoes

Ronald Mason

Production Manager

Reading Recommendations:

Leadership Beyond Reason, Quiet Strength, Emotional Success

Craig Roman

IT Manager

Reading Recommendations:

Send Me
‍

Joyce Stone

Customer Experience Manager

Reading Recommendations:

The Silent Patient, Think Again, The Midnight Library

David Wendt

National Sales Manager, PreK-12

Reading Recommendations:

Hatchet and
‍Power Of One

Account Managers

Find Your Account Manager

Brian Balash

Account Manager, PreK-12

Reading Recommendations:

Very Impatient Caterpillar
‍

Donna Destefano

Sr. Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

Hello Beautiful

Sebastian Goodrich

Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

Love in the time of Cholera
and The Hate U Give

Rhiannon Hastings

Account Manager, PreK-12

Reading Recommendations:

The Fallen Architect and
A Christmas Carol

Lindsay Hooper

Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

Warrior Girl Unearthed and Transcendent Kingdom

Glenn Kasofsky

Sr. Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

Book and Dagger

Kristi Lawler

Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

First Lie Wins and Stephanie Plum series
‍

Bethany Moore

Inside Sales Representative

Reading Recommendations:

The Nightingale, There There,
and The Vanishing Half

Kimberly Moore

Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

The Husbands, The Lincoln Highway, and Daisy Jones & The Six

Margaret Sylvester

Account Manager, PreK-12

Reading Recommendations:

Odder, Just Because, and
‍The Book Thief

Kyle Wilson

Account Manager, PreK-12

Reading Recommendations:

Guns, Germs, and Steel, A G-Man's Life, The Art of War

Peter Wuerl

Sr. Account Manager, Library Channel

Reading Recommendations:

Unbroken, Killing Lincoln,
and Outliers

Content Acquisitions

Cassy Baskin

Wonderbook Content Strategist

Reading Recommendations:

The Fountains of Silence and
‍White Bird: A Wonder Story

Lauren Carden

Launchpad & WhaZoodle Content Strategist

Reading Recommendations:

Atomic Habits and
‍I Must Betray You

Michayla Wicker

Playaway Content Strategist

Reading Recommendations:

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, The Wrong Way Home, Gilead

Marketing & Media

Allison Cartellone

Marketing Operations Specialist

Reading Recommendations:

Anxious People and
‍Her Body and Other Parties

Lauren Kotmel

Marketing Strategist

Reading Recommendations:

Spare, Witches of Brooklyn, and The Kamogawa Food Detectives