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Will Ethridge

Will Ethridge

Will Ethridge

President, Higher Education, International, and Professional

Will Ethridge is president of Pearson Education's Higher Education, International, and Professional, a division of Pearson plc, a position he has held since March 2003.

In this role, he is responsible for Pearson's global leadership in Higher Education, English Language Training, and Professional Publishing, with such recognized imprints as Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Addison Wesley, Pearson Allyn & Bacon, Pearson Longman, Pearson Benjamin Cummings, Pearson Custom Publishing, Peachpit Press, Que and Sams.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Ethridge was president of Pearson's U.S. Higher Education and Professional Publishing Group. Prior to joining Pearson in November 1998, Mr. Ethridge held several executive positions at Prentice Hall, including heading the editorial and marketing operations for the college division and president of Prentice Hall's sciences and technical publishing operations.

Mr. Ethridge graduated in 1974 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a degree in American Studies. He started his career in publishing in 1975 as a Sales Representative with Little, Brown & Company, and later went on to building industry-leading programs in economics as an editor and editor-in-chief for Little, Brown and later Addison Wesley.

Mr. Ethridge has served on the Board of Directors for Interactive Data Corporation since October 2001.

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