Paxen Board of Directors
Mr. Geoffrey R. H. Burn
As Managing Director of Stanford University Press, Mr. Burn directs all aspects of editorial and production operations, marketing, and distribution. He directs the publishing program in scholarly books and develops key new lines of publication.
Mr. Burn previously served as President and CEO of the Brooks/Cole Group in Monterey, Calif., a division of Thomson that publishes print and electronic products for the college market in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics, science, engineering, and computer science. Prior to that, Mr. Burn served as CEO of Thomson Science & Professional, a group of companies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany that publishes journals, magazines, books, CDs and online products for researchers and practitioners in biomedicine, applied science, engineering, architecture and business technology.
Other prominent positions have included executive director of the BMJ Publishing Group, British Medical Association in London; managing director of Butterworth Scientific Limited in Guildford, England; president of Butterworth Law Publishers Canada in Toronto and Vancouver; and a series of positions with Methuen Publications in Canada.
Mr. Burn’s industry appointments have included director, University, College and Professional Publishers Group, the Publishers Association (UK); director, the Canadian Book Publishers' Council; and president, College Publishers' Group of the Canadian Book Publishers' Council.
Mr. Peter Hoenigsberg
Mr. Hoenigsberg, a leader in publishing industry for more than a quarter century, serves as CEO of Decision Resources, a Castanea Partners and Boston Ventures portfolio company. He previously held the position of President and CEO of Harcourt Inc.’s largest and most profitable division, The Worldwide Scientific, Technical and Medical Group.
Before joining Harcourt, Mr. Hoenigsberg directed the International and Media Group for ITP (now Thomson Learning). He also spent 13 years at Addison-Wesley (Pearson) in several senior-level capacities for the company’s Corporate and Professional Group, International Publishing Group, and its United Kingdom operation.
Educated in South Africa and Great Britain, Mr. Hoenigsberg has participated in a number of executive development programs, including INSEAD and The London Business School. Mr. Hoenigsberg served as a past member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, the Executive Committee of the International Division of the American Publishers Association (AAP), and the Executive Council of the British Publishers Association.
Mr. Chris H. Rudge
Chris H. Rudge serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the 2012 Grey Cup Festival, recently awarded to the city of Toronto and the Argonauts Football Club. From 2003 to 2010, Mr. Rudge held the position of CEO for the Canadian Olympic Committee, which hosted the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
Mr. Rudge previously served as a senior executive and member of the Office of the CEO of Quebecor World Inc., the world’s largest commercial printer, employing 43,000 people at 160 plants in 16 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In his 12 years with Quebecor World Inc., he held several executive positions including Executive Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and International Development as well as Chairman, CEO, and President of Que-Net Media. He also served as President of Quebecor Printing Canada, President of International Operations (Europe, Latin America, and India), and Special Assistant to the CEO at Quebecor Printing Inc.
Prior to joining Quebecor World Inc. in 1991, Mr. Rudge was President and part owner of Web Offset Publications in Pickering, Ontario. He also has served as General Manager, Sales and Marketing, at Maclean Hunter Printing and held various senior advertising sales positions at The Financial Post, including National Advertising Manager.
A member of the Province of Ontario’s Olympic Trust and Waterfront Development Board and Chairman of the Town of Vaughan’s Recreation and Sports Advisory Committee, Mr. Rudge has sat on a variety of boards, including Merrill Lynch Canada, the National Ballet of Canada, and the University of Toronto Department of Athletics Restricted Funds Committee. He holds a teaching certificate from Queen’s University and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Health from the University of Toronto.
Mr. David H. Simon
A financial professional with nearly 30 years of banking and investment industry experience, Mr. Simon serves as CEO and principal partner of CS Capital Strategies Financial Group in Orlando, Fla. Since acquiring controlling interest in CS Capital Strategies, Mr. Simon has grown the firm’s managed assets from $40 million to more than $175 million.
Prior to his acquisition of CS Capital Strategies Financial Group, Mr. Simon served as President and a principal of Capital Strategies Group, an investment banking and corporate finance company with a concentration in mergers and acquisitions, equity placements, private placements, venture funding, and corporate banking transactions for small and middle-market companies in the southeastern United States.
Mr. Simon, who possesses an extensive background in the commercial banking arena, has held various senior-level management positions for a variety of banking institutions in the Orlando area. He holds a degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and attended law school at the Akron School of Law in Akron, Ohio.
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