Authors Equity CEO Madeline McIntosh: Rebuilding publishing from a blank page | Rapid Response

About Madeline

• CEO of Penguin Random House U.S. from 2018 to 2023
  
• Directed Kindle's international content rollout at Amazon
  
• Established Bertelsmann's first Amazon account early in her career
  
• Co-founded Authors Equity in 2024, rethinking publisher-author economics
  
• Independent director at Simon & Schuster; board president of Poets & Writers