About Pressbooks

We are a small team building software to support new models for book publishing. Pressbooks got its start in Montreal, but our team today is fully remote, working across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Since our founding by Hugh McGuire in 2011, our software has been used to publish thousands of free and openly licensed educational books.

We are passionate about open source, open content, open knowledge, open education, and the intersection of books and the web. We would be honoured to be your partner in open publishing.

Pressbooks Team
The Pressbooks team is dedicated to empowering educators and institutions with digital publishing tools

Our Mission

At Pressbooks, our mission is to provide powerful, easy-to-use tools that anyone can use to create and share accessible, interactive digital books and resources optimized for effective learning.

Today, we partner with thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions around the world to advance this mission. We support our partners as they work to get accessible, free or low-cost educational content into the hands of students. As longtime participants in “open” movements, we will remain good listeners and good actors. We will keep developing products and services that do good in the world.

The People Behind the Mission

Pressbooks Team

At Pressbooks, our team brings creativity, curiosity, and a sense of storytelling to everything we do. Whether we’re connecting remotely or collaborating on big projects, we work together to make the world a better place through learning. Meet the incredible team behind it all below.

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CEO

Julie Curtis

VP Strategy & Growth

Christopher Murtagh

VP Technology

Ricardo Aragón

Lead Developer

Jenn Martin

Manager of Content Marketing

John McLeod

Sales Team Lead

Steel Wagstaff

Customer Experience Lead

Thomas Weideman

Support Team Lead and QA Tester

Oscar Arzola

Release Manager

Ho Man Chan

DevOps Engineer

Felipe Dalcin

Full-Stack Developer

Caroline Johnson

Financial Administrator

Elsie Kluvia

Executive Assistant

Darrin Sabourin

Account Executive

Mich Spieler

Customer Support Specialist

Michelle Weremczuk

UX/UI Designer

Hugh McGuire

Founder

Contact Us

Mailing Address

5455 De Gaspe Avenue Suite 710,
Montreal, QC, H2T 3B3
Canada

Email

contact@pressbooks.com

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