Tessa Shanks is the Finance Director of Sales at the Hachette Book Group, where she oversees budgeting, forecasting, and financial and sales analysis for the department. Previously she has held finance and operations roles at Abrams, W.W. Norton, and at Perseus Books. Prior to her career in corporate finance, Tessa spent nine years working in publicity at Knopf and PublicAffairs, where she rose to the rank of Assistant Director of Publicity, working with authors such as former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm, and journalists Gay Talese and Joan Didion. A graduate of Oberlin College, Tessa lives in Brooklyn, three blocks away from her favorite bookstore.