Our people

Sara Miller McCune

Founder

Sara Miller McCune is the founder of Sage, with subsidiary companies and sales offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, India, East Asia, Melbourne, and Latin America. In 2021, McCune signed over her voting shares and control of the company to the independent Sage-SMM Trust. This marked an irrevocable step towards her long-standing estate plan goal of ensuring Sage remains an independent company focused on its mission to build bridges to knowledge through educational and research publishing.

McCune is also co-founder and president of the McCune Foundation, based in Ventura, California, which supports productive change through building social capital in two counties on California’s Central Coast. Previously, she was a long-serving member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council, the American Academy of Political Science, and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

McCune is a graduate of Queens College and the recipient of honorary doctorates from Queens College (CUNY), University of Sussex, University of Bath, and California State University Channel Islands. She has also been recognized as an honorary alumna of the University of California, Santa Barbara; an honorary Fellow at Cardiff University and Pembroke College, Oxford; and is a recipient of the prestigious London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. McCune is a member of the American Philosophical Society (founded by Benjamin Franklin). In May 2021 McCune was honored at the 30th Annual One To World Fulbright Awards Dinner.

Shareholders

Sara Miller McCune
Majority shareholder; Founder, Sage (1965)

David McCune
Shareholder; Deputy Chairperson; former CEO of Sage (1989-1999); Co-Founder, Corwin Press (1990)

Doug McCune
Shareholder; former Chief Product Officer, Spatial Key; Author, Adobe Flex for Dummies (Wiley)

Board of Directors*

Blaise R. Simqu
Chief Executive Officer (2004 - Present)

Scott Henderson
CEO, Co-Founder, Traxxall Technologies; Former COO and CFO, The Financial Times

Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir
President, Spencer Foundation; Former Professor of Education and Vice-Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Renu Khator
Chancellor, University of Houston System, President, University of Houston

Tracia Luh
CFO & Lead for Business Development & Licensing (BD&L), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Timo Hannay
Founder, SchoolDash; Former Managing Director, Digital Science, a Springer Nature Company

David J. Walsh
Chairperson of the Sage-SMM Trust; Managing Partner, Growth Equity, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP

Elaine L. Westbrooks
Carl A. Koch University Librarian, Cornell University

Blaise R. Simqu
Chief Executive Officer

Tracey Ozmina
President, Global Chief Operating Officer

Ziyad Marar
President, Global Publishing

Karen Phillips
Executive Vice President, Learning & UK Executive Lead

Kiren Shoman
Executive Vice President, Editorial & Global Executive Lead, DEI

Albert Sciamanna
Global Vice President, Customer Service & Fulfillment

Jennifer Kemp
Chief Operating Officer, AM

Steve Eden
Global Vice President, Legal & General Counsel

Tony Histed
Vice President, Sales, Sage International

Roberta Isaeff
Vice President, Human Resources & Facilities

Charisse Kiino
Vice President, College Product & Market Development

Chris Miles
Vice President & Controller, U.S.

Miranda Nunhofer
Vice President, Research

Sugata Ghosh
Vice President, Publishing, Sage India

David Barnard
Associate Vice President, Technology

Lisa Kostecki
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Business Analytics

Melanie van Roijen
Vice President, Global Total Rewards & HR Operations

Caroline Porter
Associate Vice President, Research

Liz Thornton
Associate Vice President, Sales Enablement, U.S. College

Reid Hester
Associate Vice President, U.S. College Editorial

Matt Hayes
Vice President, Technology from Sage

Michele Sordi
Executive Vice President & Head of U.S. College

Steven Martin
Global Vice President, Production

Rosalia da Garcia
Managing Director, Sage Asia-Pacific

Martha Fogg
Managing Director, AM

Martha Sedgwick
Vice President, Innovation, Research & Learning

Katie Metzler
Vice President, Social Science Innovation

Diane Nabrzeski
Senior Vice President, U.S. College Sales

Sheenagh McCarthy
Vice President, Global Marketing

Elena Nikitina
Vice President, Marketing & Operations, Corwin

Gautam Mehta
Vice President, Technology & Global Services, Sage India

Holly Ahern
Vice President, Global Production

Mark Achenbach
Vice President, Digital Learning Solutions, U.S. College

Mike Duffy
Vice President, Library Sales (North America)

Sarah Smith
Associate Vice President, UK Finance

Louise Coady
Associate Vice President, Global Corporate Communications

Sonja Hollins Alexander
Associate Vice President, Professional Learning Design Strategy, Corwin

Graeme Doswell
Associate Vice President, Global Circulation & Customer Service & Fulfilment

Phil Denvir
Executive Vice President & Global Chief Information Officer

Bob Howard
Executive Vice President, Research

Jane Makoff
Global Vice President, Marketing

Chris Devling
Vice President of Sales & Learning, Corwin

Khal Rudin
Executive Chair, AM

Todd Baldwin
Vice President, Library Editorial & DC Executive Lead

Eric Moran
Vice President, Research

Mark Walford
Vice President, Rights & Business Development

John Shaw
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Sonia Kumar
Executive Lead & Finance Director, Sage India

Monica Eckman
Vice President, Content & Product, Corwin

Kim St. Pierre
Associate Vice President, HR & OD

Rachel Hunter
Associate Vice President, Research

James Waller
Associate Vice President, Sales (EMEA)

Camille Gamboa
Associate Vice President, Global Corporate Communications

Tracey Ryan
Associate Vice President, Technology

Kevin Muha
Vice President, Software Engineering

Andrew McGregor
Associate Vice President, Product Management & UX