Cengage Has Appoints Rebecca McNamara as Chief Integration Officer
May 07, 2019
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Cengage has announced the appointment of Rebecca McNamara as Chief Integration Officer. McNamara will lead all integration initiatives for the company's planned merger with McGraw-Hill, which is expected to close in early 2020. As Chief Integration Officer, she will oversee strategic planning and the post-merger implementation, including leadership of the cross-functional team responsible for ensuring both cultural and organizational alignment across companies and the plan to achieve cost synergies.
Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc. is a global education technology company. The Company is organized into three core business units: Cengage Academic business, Cengage Work business, and Cengage Select. In the Cengage Academic business unit, the Company integrates U.S. Higher Education, International Higher Education and Secondary Education in order to leverage synergies across these businesses that share content, technology platforms and support services. The Cengage Work business unit services the workforce skills market and includes the Companyâs ed2go and Infosec businesses that leverage all the Companyâs relationships, content, and data to drive growth. The Companyâs third core business unit, Cengage Select, consists of four businesses, English language teaching (ELT), Research and Other (Australia K-12 and Milady), each serving select markets and customers. The Company serves the higher education, secondary education, workforce skills, ELT, and research markets around the world.