Suggests: Jane Friedman and Victoria Wilson: Against All Odds -- Forging a Path and Succeeding
Tue, Oct 27
|Haynes and Boone, LLP
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2026, 6:30 PM
Haynes and Boone, LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza 22nd floor, New York, NY 10112, USA
About the event
You're working on a project you're really excited about. And then the people you most respect are baffled, puzzled, at best tolerant. What now? Victoria Wilson and Jane Friedman will talk about the most difficult decisions that defined their careers.
Victoria Wilson and Jane Friedman are among the most admired and influential people in American publishing.
Jane Friedman became the first female global CEO of a major publisher when Rupert Murdoch named her President & CEO of HarperCollins Worldwide in 1997, and she remained in that role until 2008. In 2009, Friedman co-founded Open Road Integrated Media with Jeffrey Sharp. As CEO, she transformed digital media, creating ebooks from authors including William Styron, Alice Walker, and James Jones--and was named one of Fortune Magazine's most powerful women entrepreneurs. Before that, she was at Random House, where she was Executive Vice President. She has worked with John le Carré, Julia Ch…