Susan Livingston joined the Crown Publishing Group as Senior Vice President, Finance and Strategy, in 2023.  In this role, she leads a team of three, and together the team is responsible for modeling and analyzing the division’s various growth strategy investments, handling special projects, supporting the title acquisition process, developing divisional budgets and forecasts, and providing regular reporting and analysis of the division’s financial results.  Prior to her role at Crown, Susan served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Planning, leading the finance team for the PRH Audio Publishing Group as well as for several corporate departments, including Consumer Marketing.  In this role, she also worked on multiple high-profile corporate strategic projects and led the finance team supporting Out of Print and the PRH Speakers Bureau. A native of Virginia, Susan spent ten years with Random House, and Penguin Random House, in New York, but since 2015, she has lived and worked remotely from the U.K.  She holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In her free time, Susan enjoys travel with friends and family, live music, hiking, cooking, documentaries of all types (sports, true crime/con artist, music/bands, other bio/memoir, etc.!), black Labradors, and, of course, reading.