Jorge Cauz

Cauz, who led Britannica until 2017, has remained active with the company in the time since, serving as a member of the board of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and chairing the board of Britannica’s sister company, Britannica Knowledge Systems, while also pursuing other business ventures. He will again be the company’s most senior executive, and all of the company’s operations worldwide, including Merriam-Webster and Melingo, will report to him.

He previously directed Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s transformation into popular digital media destinations, expanded Britannica’s role as a provider of digital supplemental curriculum products, and presided over the sunsetting of the famous Encyclopaedia Britannica print set, which ceased publication in 2012, after 244 years.

Cauz plans to continue the company’s rapid growth in the vast and growing casual- learner and lifelong-learner consumer markets, and in the global PreK-12 education market.