Chief Inclusion Officer

Lindsey Cotter, Chief Inclusion Officer, has 36 years of human resources experience cultivating workplaces where employees are challenged to reach their potential and recognized for their contributions. She has been with Scholastic for 22 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Employee Services.  Lindsey’s appointment to Chief Inclusion Officer allows her to devote her full attention and focus to developing and implementing Scholastic’s five part Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) strategy, which is a core priority for the company. She also heads up talent acquisition and HRIS functions. Earlier in her career, Lindsey served as Regional Director of Human Resources for Stern’s Department Store (a Division of Federated Stores), where she managed employee relations, recruiting, succession planning, compensation and executive development.

Chief Information Officer

As Chief Information Officer, Raghu leads Scholastic Technology Services, driving the vision, execution and support of the enterprise technology platforms across all divisions. Raghu also serves as Scholastic’s Chief Information Security Officer and is responsible for the global information security of the company. Driven by a passion for leveraging technology to drive better business outcomes, Raghu takes pride in conceptualizing, building and executing future ready, cost-effective technology transformations delivered at scale. Prior to joining Scholastic in 2015, Raghu 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.

Executive Vice President and President, Trade Publishing

Ellie oversees the award-winning Trade Publishing division at Scholastic. She helped guide the complex production and manufacturing of every one of the Harry Potter books, including the seventh book in the series that broke all publishing sales records when it launched in 2007. She is a true expert on kids and reading and the world of children's publishing.

Executive Vice President and President, Book Clubs

Judy oversees Scholastic Book Clubs, the company's unique school-based book distribution channel that has been a treasured tradition for teachers and students since 1948, as well as the company's robust e-commerce platforms on Scholastic.com. Scholastic Book Clubs reaches nearly 1 million teachers and 26 million children in classrooms nationwide every year. In 1999, Judy created Scholastic Book Clubs’ ClassroomsCare initiative, which teaches children the value of reading and giving. Scholastic donated up to 1 million books to children in need when students in each participating classroom around the country read 100 books. She also oversaw the development of Clubs Ordering On-Line (COOL), a service that allows teachers to submit Book Clubs orders via the Internet, and Parent COOL, which enables families to submit orders to their teachers online with their children and order books together. Judy served for eight years as Chairman of the Board of Reach Out and Read and currently advises this national literacy organization. She is also a Board Advisor to Book Trust.

President, Education Solutions

Rose leads the education business comprising all Scholastic’s resources in support of children’s social-emotional wellbeing and reading development. With a focus on meeting the needs of teachers and students, Education Solutions offers unparalleled literacy content, instruction and curricula across print and digital formats. The Company’s innovative, equitable, and effective materials, which support children to learn to read and love to read serve over 90% of prek-12 institutions in U.S. First joining Scholastic in 2000, Rose was Senior Vice President, Product Development for the EdTech business, which was sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in 2015, where she was later appointed Chief Learning Officer. She also served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Chairs the Industry Council of the EdTech Evidence Exchange. Rose began her career in education as a classroom teacher in Sydney, Australia.  

President of International and Executive Vice President, Special Projects 

Beth leads Scholastic International business operations in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Export, and Asia. Since joining the Company in 1985, Beth has held leadership roles spanning across key Education business areas giving her keen insights into how to best serve schools with high-quality content combined with digital solutions. Most recently, she oversaw the award-winning Scholastic Classroom Magazines, Digital Subscriptions, and Teaching Resources businesses. During her tenure, Beth has been integral to the growth of Scholastic, having led strategic initiatives including the development of Scholastic Education technology products, such as Scholastic Literacy Pro™ and Scholastic W.O.R.D., along with bringing the digital foundational reading skills program Ooka Island® to the US market. 

Executive Vice President and President, Scholastic Book Fairs

Sasha leads the Company’s Book Fair division, which hosts in-school events that spotlight the importance of independent reading and give students access to affordable, popular books that inspire them to keep reading long after they leave the classroom. These annual events put more than 100 million books in the hands of more than 25 million students and families, helping foster a lifelong love of reading. Sasha began her career in product development with Books are Fun in 2002 and in the ensuing 18 years has developed a reputation as a publishing industry thought leader. She spent nine years at ReaderLink Distribution Services, where she held leadership roles in product development, sales and marketing, culminating in her role as SVP, Marketing and Procurement in which she oversaw all marketing functions for the nation's leading trade book distributor. Prior to Scholastic, she served as VP and GMM, Bookstore, at Barnes and Noble, Inc., the largest retail bookseller in the U.S.

Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations

Jeffrey Mathews, who led corporate strategy, business development, and investor relations at Scholastic from 2008 to 2012 after four years as head of investor relations, rejoined the company in 2022. In this new role for the Company, Jeff identifies and evaluates investment and partnership opportunities to accelerate Scholastic’s growth across its leading businesses. He is the key point of contact with the investment community, working directly with leadership to strengthen the organization’s shareholder engagement and long-term value creation strategy.

Previously, Jeff served as Managing Partner at Gagnier Communications, a strategic financial communications and investor relations agency with clients across North America, Asia, and Europe. During his career, Jeff also co-founded and led two technology startups and served as Principal at Sard Verbinnen & Co. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Princeton University, and a D.Phil. in Zoology from Oxford University.