Publishers Australia CEO Alan Sarkissian stands down

Tim Burrowes

September 13, 2010 11:22

Publishers Australia CEO Alan Sarkissian has stepped down for personal reasons, the industry trade body has announced.

Sarkissian was CEO of the organisation – made up of about 120 B2B, custom, consumer and digital publishers – for about two and a half years.

Geoff Hird, chairman of Publishers Australia and associate publisher at Westwick-Farrow, told Mumbrella that the body would begin the hunt for a new CEO shortly and that a decision had not yet been about whether it would be a full time role.

Recent weeks have seen the organisation launch a new website and formalise new staff roles of an event and admin manager and a marketing and communications officer.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

Alf Santomingo 13 Sep 10

Alan Sarkissian (CEO) and Chris Tchakalian (previous ED) have done an amazing job at shaping and growing Publishers Australia as well as helping specialist publishers over the years. Best of Luck Alan.

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Tony Teys 14 Sep 10

Alan Sarkissian fiiled huge shoes when Chris left with his passion to look after small publishers Australia wide and along with his larger than life personality ….. will be sorely missed. He will be successful with whatever he does next,but good luck to his successor I say.

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