Ken Brooks
Macmillan Learning
COO
Mr. Brooks is Chief Operating Officer of Macmillan Learning where his responsibilities include the development, production and manufacturing of textbooks and learning solutions in print and digital formats. Prior to Macmillan he was senior vice president, global supply chain management at McGraw-Hill Education where he managed inventory management, manufacturing, customer service, distribution, transportation and prepress vendor management internationally. Before that, Ken was senior vice president, global production and manufacturing services at Cengage Learning. Over the course of his career, Ken has founded digital services companies both in the US and abroad; a public domain publishing imprint; and a distribution-center based print-on-demand operation and has worked in trade, professional, higher education and K-12 publishing sectors. He has held several senior management positions in publishing, including vice president of digital content at Barnes & Noble, vice president of operations, production, and strategic planning at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and vice president of customer operations at Simon & Schuster. Prior to his entry into publishing, Ken was a senior manager in Andersen Consulting's logistics strategy practice.