Art Lizza, Operations Manager

Art Lizza studied philosophy at St. Bonaventure University and later at New York University. After a short stint at Prentice-Hall, he began his 27-year career at Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, an important mid-sized academic and scholarly publishing house specializing in psychology and the behavioral sciences, education and curriculum studies, and communication.

At Erlbaum, Art rose to the position of Senior Vice President of Production. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing production of 200 books a year, in addition to 100 academic journals and as many as 300 reprint titles. Many of the journals were published on behalf of scholarly membership societies. Art supervised 45 employees and managed end-to-end production, including art, outsourcing contracts, marketing and promotions, digital reproduction, and the titles database. He also contributed to IT direction, annual budgetary forecasting, marketing strategy, and negotiating overseas contracts.