TEAM
Troy Froebe | CEO
Over the course of 25 years, Troy Froebe has established himself as an industry leader in overseeing and delivering completed projects for demanding clients in academic and trade publishing. Mr. Froebe began his career in New York by working in the editorial departments for AMS Press and Aspen Publishers. He then started The Froebe Group and began enlisting like-minded professionals to provide exceptional publishing services. Mr. Froebe is also a partner in TJKJ Farms.
Raised in Illinois, Mr. Froebe received a B.A. with Distinction and High Honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Tom Daughhetee | Senior Managing Editor
Before joining The Froebe Group, Tom Daughhetee spent more than a decade within the corporate finance department of Chicago-based insurer CNA Financial Corporation, where he focused on government relations and the financial regulatory implications of intercompany transactions. Mr. Daughhetee is especially proud of his multi-year effort working with CNA’s leadership team to gain regulatory approval for the transformation of the company into a purely commercial insurer through the shedding of its life & health and personal lines books of business. In 2013, Mr. Daughhetee moved to New York to coordinate The Froebe Group’s expansion program. Though relishing the new environment, he admits to missing his garden and the space to re-finish furniture.
Mr. Daughhetee attended Loyola University Chicago, earning a B.A. in Political Science, with Minors in Philosophy and Communication, also attending Loyola’s John Felice Rome Center, in Rome, Italy.
Kathy Langone | Senior Managing Editor
Before joining The Froebe Group, Kathy Langone spent over a decade as an editor at Aspen Publishers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she worked closely with authors on first editions and revisions of legal education casebooks, study aids, and Teacher’s Manuals. Prior to Aspen, Ms. Langone worked in New York City as an information technology assistant at the law office of Paul, Hastings, Janofksy, and Walker where she wrote, edited, and designed training documentation for attorneys, and in Boston as an editorial associate at Houghton Mifflin where she focused primarily on ancillary educational publications for math textbooks. Ms. Langone now resides in sunny Irvine, California with her husband, three sons, and a hungry chocolate Lab named Natalie.
Ms. Langone received a B.A. in Literature and Writing from the University of California, San Diego.
Corinne Pulicay | Managing Editor
After a half-decade in the apparel industry as an in-house Production Artist for a major retail supplier, Corinne Pulicay began her career in Rights Clearance/Permissions in 2013 at The Bill Smith Group (now QBS Learning). This was followed by a tenure at PARS International before eventually joining The Froebe Group in 2019. Initially starting as a freelancer, Corinne joined the full time team in 2021.
Outside of permissions work, Corinne is a photographer and a rabid DIY-enthusiast with at least one sewing or knitting project under construction at all times. She currently lives in a plant-filled apartment in the Bronx with her husband and their two cats.
Sunil Kumar | Director of Digital and Marketing Services
Sunil Kumar has worked for over 25 years conceiving, building, and maintaining websites in various industries. After finishing culinary school, he took part in the dot-com boom by helping StarChefs.com grow into one of the first successful online magazines for food industry insiders. Moving on to the publishing industry, Mr. Kumar joined The Book Report Network and built their AuthorsOnTheWeb.com site into one of the industry’s most prominent web development and online marketing services, creating sites for notable authors such as Ray Bradbury, Nelson DeMille, Neil Gaiman, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Mr. Kumar holds a B.A. from Syracuse University.
Jessica Barmack | Developmental Editor
Jessica Barmack owes the bounty of her career to a few key people who saw certain qualities in her and were brave enough to give her a chance to demonstrate them. One of these people was the founding publisher of legal education at Little, Brown, Rick Heuser. Another was Carol McGeehan, who brought Jess from Little, Brown to Aspen. Yet another was Troy Froebe, who ushered Jess out of a brief early retirement (to write a novel; don’t ask) and back into the fold of legal education publishing—where, refreshed, and a little older, she challenged herself to become the best developmental editor she could be.
Summer Wrobel | Associate Editor
Summer Wrobel is a writer and editor from Brooklyn, NY. She joined The Froebe Group after receiving an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has provided editorial support to magazines such as Ecotone, Conjunctions, and the Boiler, and has provided publicity support for both emerging and established authors. She now lives (back) in Brooklyn, where she co-hosts The Cusp Reading Series.
Eric Song | Associate Editor
Prior to working in editorial development with The Froebe Group, Mr. Song worked in international development and education. First as an education and community development volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Mongolia, and later in Kazakhstan where held a myriad of roles ranging from Deputy Director overseeing marketing copywriting for De Montfort University, proofreading UN ESG reports for third-party clients on behalf of PWC in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, to self-financing, writing and directing a stage drama at an independent theater.
Mr. Song holds a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University, and an M.A. with distinction in International Affairs from the University of Tartu in Estonia; the University of Glasgow in the U.K., and KIMEP University in Kazakhstan. Eric lives in New Jersey with his wife Hera and their two cats. When he's not tending to the cats or going for a run, he loves movies and wouldn't mind getting behind a camera or returning to the stage either to write and direct sometime in the future.
Irene Elias | Associate Editor
Irene Elias joined The Froebe Group after obtaining a PhD in Ancient Greek and Roman History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, during which time she did freelance work for publishing departments at several museums in Philadelphia. A born and raised New Yorker, she is glad to be back in the city and continuing to work with academics on their manuscripts. She spends her free time baking and swing dancing.
Irene also holds a BA with High Honors in Classical Studies and minors in Chemistry and Greek from Swarthmore College.
Patrick Walsh | Associate Editor
Before joining The Froebe Group, Patrick attended Penn State University, where he worked on Professor Fariborz Ghadar's book, The Danger of Devaluing Immigrants, and graduated with a Master's in English and Bachelor's in English and History. Mr. Walsh joined TFG as an Editorial Assistant in November 2023 and now runs the Quality Assurance, Alt Text, and Editorial Assistant programs.
Outside of work, Patrick is an improviser, actor, and member of the sketch comedy group Alternative Medicine. He is also good at tennis. Patrick hails from Yardley, PA, the hometown of esteemed character actors Zach Woods and Richard Kind.