Nancy Roberts Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Created the sociology core textbook list and expanded the anthropology and women’s studies core textbook lists. Co-developed the Higher Education team, including expanding the pool of outside vendors, implementing the e-sampling program with VitalSource, and working with the digital production team to ensure textbook compliance. • Signed 56 titles/$3.2M projected revenue.• Published 43 textbooks in print and digital formats, including ancillaries where appropriate, which increased the visibility of the R&L textbook programs in competitive adoptions and at discipline-specific conferences. • Created training materials and conducted editorial training sessions for editors on how to sign/publish/manage textbooks so that the HE program could expand more quickly and establish best practices.• Key member of the evaluation teams reviewing potential digital textbook platforms and market research firms to bring new textbooks quickly and efficiently to market.

Upper Saddle River, Nj

Responsible for managing a $20M P&L, including publishing 120 texts and achieving signing goals every year. • Created interactive eBooks based on Pearson’s digital platform (MyLab), which made these titles more competitive in their markets.• Published the 2005 Softside Book of the Year, Stanford, et al, Biological Anthropology, which became the #2 text in its market in its publication year. • Served as the Arts & Sciences softside representative for the AAA Business Case Study committee to review current editorial practices for launching Pearson’s largest titles and recommend alternative practices to provide increased efficiencies. • Served as the Arts & Sciences softside acquisitions representative for company-wide Workflow Integration program to increase internal efficiencies. • Served as the Arts & Sciences softside acquisitions representative for company-wide Digital Document Routing committee to advise on the business process innovation for the digital transformation of metadata. • Served as the Arts & Sciences softside acquisitions representative for company-wide digital Publishing Process System upgrade strategy, including providing the IT team with business case scenarios for testing and reviewing/testing all stages of upgrade development.

Upper Saddle River, Nj

Publisher of the largest Sociology/Anthropology program in the industry ($25M annual revenue), including managerial and profit/loss responsibility for team performance.• Recruited and hired personnel, set team goals, and created yearly sales forecasts/budgets to ensure the team made its annual goals. • Created eTexts based on Pearson’s digital platforms (OneKey, Research Navigator) to maintain the competitiveness of the publishing program. • Served as the Company Trainer for new acquisitions editors for 10 years, including creating training documents, managing the logistics of an annual 3-day training program, including the coordination of presenters, and presiding over the program and presenting sessions to the editors.

Upper Saddle River, Nj

Responsible for a $50M P&L and a $1.5M budget for the Psychology, Political Science, Anthropology, and Sociology lists. Led 12 people, including acquisition editors, associate/assistant editors, and editorial assistants. • Achieved team sales goals in five out of six years, and posted double digit increases in three of those years.• Led the editorial team to publish between 80-95 titles each year, including 10-15 introductory market texts each year.• Managed and published the Humanities and Social Sciences Division’s internet guide program (12 discipline-specific guides that shipped over 400,000 units in both 1998 and 1999).

Englewood Cliffs, Nj

Sociology, anthropology, social work, and speech pathology

Salt Lake City And San Francisco

Salt Lake City: generalistSan Francisco: softside specialist

Huntsville, Tx And Corvallis, Or

American history, American government, Drill Team Director