Meet the Team
Sal De Spirito
Global Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Sal is a seasoned digital and consumer marketing executive with nearly 20 years of successfully managing and growing P&Ls in various industries and organizations.
At Britannica, Sal drives the marketing, audience growth, customer engagement, and monetization strategies for all the institutional and subscription products for Britannica and Merriam-Webster. He also works closely with product and editorial leaders, as well as external partners, to shape effective value creation strategies and build strong go-to-market capabilities that supplement and complement the sales force for value capture.
Prior to joining Britannica, Sal worked at Rodale, a global publishing leader in health and wellness known for its brands Men’s Health, Prevention, Runner’s World, and Women’s Health. He led the Online Book division and played an integral role in turning a $500k business into a $50M juggernaut, and achieved double-digit growth year-over-year through channel expansion, customer-focused product development, targeted list segmentation, and marketing automation. Sal holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from De Sales University.
Doug Eveleigh
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Doug Eveleigh oversees Britannica’s global legal and HR activities, including M&A, financing, litigation, compliance and regulatory affairs, employee engagement, intellectual property matters and brand protection. He also partners closely with the rest of the executive team and board of directors to help drive global business initiatives.
Prior to joining Britannica, Doug served as the Assistant General Counsel at Solo Cup Company, a publicly reporting, private-equity owned global entity, during which he assisted with the $1B sale of the company in 2012 and had responsibility for Solo’s global litigation, corporate transactions (including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures), compliance matters and corporate governance. Previously, Doug worked at the Chicago office of the international law firm Mayer, Brown, where he participated in a sophisticated IP, Litigation and M&A practice. In this capacity, he represented a host of publicly traded and privately held corporations. Doug holds a B.S. in engineering from Boston University College of Engineering and a law degree, summa cum laude, from John Marshall Law School, where he graduated first in his class and was a member of the Law Review. (Photo: Bill Guerriero)
Caroline Kennard
Managing Director of EMEA
The Managing Director for EMEA, Caroline Kennard has over 25 years’ of experience in Education and Strategic Business Leadership, with global experience, focused on Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
J.E. Luebering
Executive Director, Core Editorial Group
J.E. oversees the editors who create the content published at Britannica.com. Since he began at Britannica in 2004, J.E. has worked at all levels of the company’s editorial team, from copy editor and subject editor to several managerial positions.
J.E. is responsible for ensuring that his team achieves the high editorial standards Britannica is known for: clarity, accuracy, objectivity, and fairness.
His current role is focused on new initiatives and strategic editorial partnerships that seek to transform the ways in which Britannica creates and shares knowledge. He works closely with members of his team to identify and develop their best and most innovative ideas, and he collaborates with Britannica’s product, marketing, and sales teams to bring those ideas to life.
J.E. received a B.A. in English from Kenyon College and an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago.
Marsha Mackenzie
Executive Editor, Curriculum, Media and Production
Marsha Mackenzie currently oversees the editorial group tasked with creating authoritative, curriculum-aligned, and engaging content for Britannica’s institutional products at the Elementary and Middle School levels.
Marsha joined Britannica in 1982 as a project-hire proofreader and now collaborates with the global executive team to ensure that Britannica’s Curriculum and Media teams are aligned with company strategy and goals. From copy editing and fact-checking, she shifted to supervising print composition and typography. Later she joined the management team in the Art department overseeing permissions, budgets, and schedules. She then added editorial project management and media management responsibilities in successive positions. Marsha currently specializes in digital K–12 content development, both text and media, working with teams of editors, curriculum specialists, copy editors, illustrators, animators, photo editors, cartographers, and videographers to realize complex editorial initiatives and product development. She loves being surrounded by Britannica’s talented and dedicated content professionals who create exceptional and beautiful work every day.
Marsha majored in Latin at the University of Michigan, with a minor in Greek and Classical Studies.
Chris Mayland
Vice President, Consumer Markets
Chris is a veteran in the digital space, having spent his 20-year career immersed in advertising and marketing technologies for a number of publishers in Chicago.
His current role focuses on maximizing advertising and subscription revenue across Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s suite of digital properties by identifying the most impactful technology integrations, an analytics-focused approach to testing and optimization, and an ever-growing data strategy to fuel more intelligent targeting and product decisions.
Previous to working at Britannica, Chris ran the Ad Operations team at Zacks Investment Research, where he was integral in growing a small financial publisher into a network of financial sites. Before that, Chris was struck with the advertising bug at TMP Worldwide, where he worked with clients like Allied Van Lines and Culligan Water. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Vanderbilt University, and now lives outside of Chicago with his wife and three beautiful daughters. (Photo: Bill Guerriero
Theodore Pappas
Executive Editor, Chief Development Officer
Ted is a 20-year veteran of Britannica who cultivates brand and business opportunities and contributes to the company’s public relations activities.
Ted, a previous director of Britannica’s editorial department, has recently brokered partnerships with several national libraries around the world (including those of South Africa, Israel, and Qatar); edited the Encyclopaedia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence (1768-2018); and created Britannica’s Publishing Partner Program, which features thousands of contributions from independent scholars, leading universities, and videographers and photographers from every continent. He’s enjoyed working, most recently, with the comedian Ismo, who’s created a hilarious new series of videos on the English language especially for Britannica and Merriam-Webster.
Ted’s writings have appeared in a variety of American and British publications, including The American Scholar, The Spectator, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Wilson Quarterly, and the New York Post, among others. His work has been taught, anthologized, as well as discussed in publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. His broadcast experience includes the NBC Today Show, CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, Fox News radio and television, NPR’s All Things Considered, and BBC Radio. His latest book is True Grit: Classic Tales of Perseverance (2018).