Skip to main content
HearstExecutive hire

Sean Lanagan Named President of Hearst Transportation

What happened

Hearst hired Sean Lanagan as president on Dec 11th '25.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

Sean Lanagan named president of Hearst Transportation. Lanagan Succeeds Thomas D. Cross Who Will Retire in January NEW YORK, December 11, 2025 - Hearst today announced that Sean Lanagan, president and CEO of its CAMP Systems International business, will also become president of Hearst Transportation. He will succeed Thomas D. Cross, senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Transportation, who will retire on January 31, 2026. "Sean has done a great job leading CAMP and now will also work with our management at MOTOR, Black Book and Noregon Systems to continue to grow our Transportation division," said Steven R. Swartz, president and chief executive officer of Hearst. "I also want to thank Tom for his many years of leadership and to note that Tom has agreed to continue helping us as a consultant." Lanagan joined CAMP in 2016 and has led the company in expanding its mission-critical aviation software and data services used by operators, manufacturers and maintenance professionals worldwide. His leadership experience spans more than two decades in building and scaling enterprise software businesses. Cross, who has served in leadership roles across Hearst's transportation companies for more than 20 years, will remain in his position through the end of January to support the transition. Lanagan begins his expanded role on February 1. "I am honored to take on...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for Hearst, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Sean Lanaganpresident
Takes effect
Dec 11, 2025
Location
New York, New York, United States

More executive hire signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Sean Lanaganpresident · Named in the story

Details

Category
Hires

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • directors

Extraction

Confidence
33%
Detected
Dec 11, 2025
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

Use this data

Get every executive hire signal for Hearst and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Hearst this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns executive hire signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/d902f875-c094-4b7d-8531-1c8ae909a6a6 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for hearst.com.

{
  "signal_id": "d902f875-c094-4b7d-8531-1c8ae909a6a6",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "hires",
  "detected_at": "2025-12-11T00:00:00+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Hearst",
    "domain": "hearst.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.hearst.com/-/sean-lanagan-named-president-of-hearst-transportation",
    "title": "Sean Lanagan Named President of Hearst Transportation",
    "contact": "Sean Lanagan",
    "excerpt": "Sean Lanagan named president of Hearst Transportation.\n\nLanagan Succeeds Thomas D. Cross Who Will Retire in January\n\nNEW YORK, December 11, 2025 - Hearst today announced that Sean Lanagan, president and CEO of its CAMP Systems International business, will also become president of Hearst Transportation. He will succeed Thomas D. Cross, senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Transportation, who will retire on January 31, 2026.\n\n\"Sean has done a great job leading CAMP and now will also work with our management at MOTOR, Black Book and Noregon Systems to continue to grow our Transportation division,\" said Steven R. Swartz, president and chief executive officer of Hearst. \"I also want to thank Tom for his many years of leadership and to note that Tom has agreed to continue helping us as a consultant.\"\n\nLanagan joined CAMP in 2016 and has led the company in expanding its mission-critical aviation software and data services used by operators, manufacturers and maintenance professionals worldwide. His leadership experience spans more than two decades in building and scaling enterprise software businesses.\n\nCross, who has served in leadership roles across Hearst's transportation companies for more than 20 years, will remain in his position through the end of January to support the transition. Lanagan begins his expanded role on February 1.\n\n\"I am honored to take on...",
    "summary": "Hearst hired Sean Lanagan as president on Dec 11th '25.",
    "category": "hires",
    "found_at": "2025-12-11T00:00:00Z",
    "location": "New York, New York, United States",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://www.hearst.com/o/hearst-theme/images/Nav_HearstLogo.svg",
    "job_title": "president",
    "confidence": 0.3341,
    "published_at": "2025-12-11T00:00:00Z",
    "location_data": [
      {
        "city": "New York",
        "state": "New York",
        "country": "United States",
        "fuzzy_match": false
      }
    ],
    "effective_date": "2025-12-11",
    "job_title_tags": [
      "directors"
    ],
    "article_sentence": "NEW YORK, December 11, 2025 - Hearst today announced that Sean Lanagan, president and CEO of its CAMP Systems International business, will also become president of Hearst Transportation."
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.