TIME Names New Sales, Marketing Leads | People on the Move

[caption id="attachment_170617" align="alignright" width="150"] Viktoria Degtar[/caption] Five weeks into Keith Grossman's tenure as president of Time magazine, the list of new additions to its executive ranks is getting longer. Following last month’s appointment of chief legal officer Dana Rosen, Grossman notified staffers Tuesday that Viktoria Degtar is joining the company as chief revenue officer, overseeing all sales teams starting next week. Degtar previously worked with Grossman at Bloomberg, where she spent four years, most recently based out of London as the head of sales and marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to that, Degtar was the VP of sales at HuffPost. She'll remain based in London through July 2020, Grossman said, "to help build 'local' infrastructures internationally." Additionally, three new execs have been promoted or hired to lead Time's marketing team:  [caption id="attachment_170619" align="alignright" width="150"] Susanna Schorbsdorff[/caption] Chief partnerships officer Susanna Schrobsdorff is now taking on two roles: SVP of partnerships and executive editor of the magazine. Schrobsdorff has nearly 17 years of experience at Time, primarily on the editorial side and split across two different tenures. She spent eight years in the 1990s as newsdesk editor, primarily based in Europe, then rejoined as assistant managing editor in 2010 after intermittent stops at Newsweek and NBC Universal.  "In her new role, [Schrobsdorff] will... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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