About Adrian Zackheim

Adrian Zackheim, President and Publisher of Portfolio, began his career in publishing at G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the School and Library Publicity and Promotion Department in 1975. Since then he has held editorial positions at St. Martin’s Press, Doubleday, William Morrow and Company, and most recently was Publisher of HarperBusiness. He came to Penguin Group in 2001 to found Portfolio.

Some of the books he is most proud of from earlier in his career include The Year of Living Dangerously by C.J. Koch, Magician by Raymond Feist, The Mick by Mickey Mantle, Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay, Head to Head by Lester Thurow, Generations by Bill Strauss and Neil Howe, Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt, The Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook by Scott Adams, The HP Way by David Packard, Die Broke by Stephen Pollan and Mark Levine, Built to Last by Jim Collins and Larry Porras, and Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Since coming to Penguin, some of his more notable books include The Smartest Guys in the Room by Peter Elkind and Bethany McLean, The Rise of the Vulcans by Jim Mann, Purple Cow, The Dip, and Tribes by Seth Godin, Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch by David Cay Johnston, Perfect Enough by George Anders, Tough Choices by Carly Fiorina, The Ten Commandments of Business Failure by Don Keough, Why Smart Executives Fail by Sidney Finkelstein, Small Giants by Bo Burlingham, and Trading Up by Michael Silverstein and Neil Fiske.