Wibke Grutjen
Senior Vice President, Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Simon & Schuster
Wibke Grutjen joined Simon & Schuster in 2024 as Senior Vice President, Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer.
Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Ms. Grutjen served as Chief Marketing Officer at Hachette Book Group from 2019 to 2024. Ms. Grutjen started her career in the United Kingdom as an Editor of ARTbibliographies Modern in Oxford, England. After moving to the United States in 2003, she worked in television production, developing documentaries and news for networks including WETA, ABC News, and The History Channel. In 2007, she joined Penguin UK as Head of Business Information, and in 2010, after a return to the US, joined Macmillan Publishers. At Macmillan, she was initially responsible for marketing analytics, quickly rising to take on the leadership of the central digital marketing team.
Ms. Grutjen holds Masters degrees from Oxford University and the Free University of Berlin. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.