Two industry leaders and former Borders employees with years of retail, sales, and marketing experience in the book industry have joined the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation board of directors.

Meghan Holmes is a marketing executive with over 16 years of leadership experience in the retail and marketing agency sectors. Meghan started her career working at Borders’ headquarters in various marketing and operational roles. She has been involved with Binc since 2003 and served as vice president of the board from 2010-2013. 

Susan Yeager was a bookseller at Borders and served over 17 years as trainer, buyer, category manager, and inventory director. She joined HarperCollins in 2007 where she is currently sr. director of sales. Susan has volunteered for Adult Literacy, New York Road Runners, and served three years on the steering committee of Greene Hill Food Co-op.  

Steven Malk, literary agent with Writers House, completed his service to Binc.

In addition, the board’s executive committee was reelected: Morrow, former owner of Northshire Bookstore, president; Michael Jacobs, former president and CEO of Abrams Books, vice president; Jonathan Putnam, historical fiction author, treasurer; and Emma Kaas, co-owner of Norwich Bookstore, secretary.