NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic
(NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education, and
media company, today announced the appointment of two leaders for
the Company's technology and operational teams. Raghushri Sankaran
serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
leading Scholastic Technology Solutions, and Kevin Conklin as Senior Vice President of
Corporate Operations. Mr. Sankaran and Mr. Conklin both join
the Scholastic Management Executive Committee and report directly
to Richard Robinson, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Scholastic. Their roles are responsible
for the direction and implementation of the future vision of
technology and operations for the Company.
"Technology systems and operations excellence are essential to
ensuring we are able to bring print and digital resources directly
to our customers, in a customized way. Raghushri Sankaran and
Kevin Conklin are the ideal leaders
we need in roles integral to building effective systems and
delivering world class fulfillment service that enable Scholastic
to continue expanding access to reading and learning for young
people everywhere," said Richard
Robinson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Scholastic.
Raghushri Sankaran, Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer
With 6 years of experience at
Scholastic, and more than 20 years of experience in the field, Mr.
Sankaran has shown a passion and deep understanding for
conceptualizing and building future-ready, cost-effective
technology transformations delivered at scale. He has led several
digital, security, and infrastructure transformation efforts at
Scholastic and more recently was instrumental in leading the
Company's recent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. In his
new role as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
leading Scholastic Technology Solutions, Mr. Sankaran drives
the vision, execution, and support of enterprise technology
platforms across all divisions at Scholastic globally. In this
expanded role, Mr. Sankaran will also continue to serve as
Chief Information Security Officer, managing global information
security of the Company.
Before coming to Scholastic in 2015, Mr. Sankaran led the
Healthcare Enterprise Platform team at Siemens Healthcare, served
as the Director of Technology at Sapient, and led Intuit's
Enterprise Commerce Platform and Enterprise Order System Middleware
groups.
Kevin Conklin, Senior Vice
President, Corporate Operations
With more than 25 years of operations and distribution logistics
experience, Mr. Conklin joins Scholastic to lead end-to-end, global
supply chain activities, including procurement, planning,
manufacturing, inventory, logistics, order processing,
distribution, and customer service. In this role, he leads a
centralized vision for operations and state-of-the-art solutions to
deliver quality customer service consistent with the Company's
mission to promote literacy and a love of reading for children
around the world.
Prior to joining Scholastic, Mr. Conklin held roles as Vice
President, Operations Americas for Pandora Jewelry, Director of
Distribution and Logistics for the Clorox Company, overseeing the
Burt's Bees Division, as well as Senior Director of the
Ohio and Mid-Atlantic Region and
Corporate Operations for Office Depot. He currently serves on the
Board of Directors for the Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Foundation, Inc. He is also an Advisory Board Member of
Transportation Impact, LLC, and a former Advisory Board Member for
the Make-A-Wish foundation, having served as Governing Board Member
& Governance Committee Co-Chair.
About Scholastic
For 100 years, Scholastic Corporation
(NASDAQ: SCHL) has been encouraging the personal and intellectual
growth of all children, beginning with literacy. Having earned a
reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families,
Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of
children's books, a leading provider of literacy curriculum,
professional services, and classroom magazines, and a producer of
educational and entertaining children's media. The Company creates
and distributes bestselling books and e-books, print and
technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, and other
products and services that support children's learning and
literacy, both in school and at home. With 15 international
operations and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality,
affordable books available to all children around the world through
school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school
and public libraries, retail, and online. Learn more
at www.scholastic.com.
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