Publishers Marketplace reports on its front page this afternoon that Perseus will combine its and PGW‘s sales efforts into a single domestic sales group representing the company’s own imprint and Perseus and PGW distribution clients. Perseus will keep 68 PGW employees, but CEO Rich Freese will leave by the end of July as the transition period is complete.

Marketplace further reports that PGW executives and veterans staying on include Kim Wylie (who will continue to be responsible for all PGW client publisher sales, reporting to Perseus’s Matty Goldberg) and PGW field sales director Elise Cannon, who will head a newly combined Perseus and PGW field sales force of 16. Others named include Eric Green, Sue Ostfield, Susan McConnell, Kevin Votel, Eric Kettunen, Sarah Rosenberg, Heather Cameron, Karla Simmons, Sean Shoemaker, Matthew Chilcott, and Roxanne Schwartz.