Arturo Alvaro

Arturo Alvaro, Sales and Project Manager in Logista Libros since 2016, expert in publishing distribution and supply chain. He started in Logista Libros in 2006 as analyst, developing several positions in the sales and administration department always focused in clients (publishers and retail). This experience and position provided Arturo a complete view of the publishing sector from all kind of publishers and all the retail channel.

“We are the link between publishers and retailers. Our main challenge is help our partners to growth in a sustainable way, work focused in their core business and being more profitable. As benchmark distributor Logista must offer solutions, security and long term relations to our partners… and we do it”.

Graduated in BA from UAM and Master in International Commerce from ESIC. 42 years old and father of 2 children.

Daniel Morales Gutiérrez

Morales is Telecommunications Engineer from the University of Seville. After years working in different operators in the sector, he joined Orange Spain twelve years ago to lead the mobile access network renewal projects, and then for five years he worked as territorial manager in Andalusia, Extremadura, the Canary Islands and the central area, leading the deployment of new generation networks and ensuring the service that Orange provides to its customers every day. Almost four years ago he decided to take a turn in his career and since then he has been in charge of the Orange Foundation and the Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility department, carrying out projects that favor digital inclusion and make Orange’s business more respectful of the environment.

Manuel Gil

Manuel Gil holds a degree in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Master’s degree in Sales and Marketing Management from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, is a member of the first class of the Advanced Programme for the Management of Publishing Companies at the Instituto de Empresa, and holds a Higher Degree in Foreign Trade from the Angel Martinez Fuertes Foundation. After more than 35 years of professional experience in important companies in the book sector -Cadena de librerías 4Caminos, Paradox Multimedia, Marcial Pons, Ediciones Siruela, Odilo TID–, from 2017 to 2021 he was Director of the Madrid Book Fair, professor and speaker in different publishing masters, both in Spain and Latin America. He is co-author of several books and he has published frequent o articles in the magazine Texturas. His activity as a blogger began in 2007, and he currently runs the blog “Antinomias Libro”.

Ricardo Fernandez de Molina Fernandez

Ricardo has more than 18 years of experience in media and, as Director of Digital Business for the B2B Market in Prisa Media, is taking part on the digital transformation of leaders brands as EL PAÍS, Diario AS or CincoDías. The challenge is to find the right formats for the digital content, the right channels to distribute and the right ways of relationship with the user and with the media ecosystem. Additionally, he is board member of Kiosko y Más, the spanish digital platform distributing more than 400 publications.

He has a degree in Higher Industrial Engineering, a MBA from IE Business School and a Master in Supply Chain. Nowadays, trying to learn how to educate his two children, the most difficult degree, definitely.

Lory Martinez

Lory Martinez is a Colombian-American journalist and podcast producer from Queens, NYC. She is the Founder of Studio Ochenta, a brand new multilingual podcast studio dedicated to raising voices across cultures. She is the executive producer on a number of podcasts for the studio in French, English and Spanish, and hosts Mija Podcast, an audio drama that follows the immigration journey of one family from Colombia to the United States. The podcast is available  3 languages and hit #1 in Fiction on Apple podcasts in both Spain and France.

Currently based in Paris, France, she combines nearly a decade of content production experience for radio, (NPR, UN Radio), publications ( Bustle, PopSugar), podcasts (A Poêle, Dinner for One, ExExpat…) to create engaging content in French, English and Spanish.

Carlo Carrenho

Carlo Carrenho is an international publishing consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been working in book publishing for 30 years and his experience is particularly strong on digital strategy, business development and general management.

He is Frankfurt Book Fair’s Audio Ambassador for the 2023 and 2024 editions. Besides that, he has been consulting for companies and organizations such as Dreamscape (USA), Beletrina (Slovenia), Arabic Language Center (Abu Dhabi) and Meta Solutions (Brazil). As a publishing expert, Carlo has moderated or lectured in events such as Digital Book World in the U.S., China’s First World Conference of Digital Publications and South Africa’s Digital Technologies Summit, as well as book fairs such as Frankfurt, London, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. He has also co-authored several publishing studies and reports.

He founded the online book trade media PublishNews in Brazil and Spain and recently sold his equity in these companies. Carlo has a degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course in Cambridge, US.

Marie-Pierre Sangouard

To publish is to connect authors to audiences. As simple as it sounds, it is extraordinary complex: many professions, many processes, many technologies are involved, all to serve the creator and the reader. How do we integrate into the equation the issues of sustainable growth, social responsibility and freedom of thought in this new era of IA, immediacy and resource shrinkage?

 

Marie-Pierre Sangouard has been working in the publishing industry for more than 25 years. With a 360° background in the industry in France – starting in marketing for Hachette (Book for Children), then General Manager of a paperback publishing company, Director of Book Purchasing for a cultural retail chain, Director of Kindle in France, VP digital marketing  and now General Manager of a French book distribution company, she has a global overview of the main challenges the industry is facing …in a book fixed price environment.

She is currently General Manager of Interforum, a 100% subsidiary of Editis Group in France and manages sales forces and the distribution activities in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada .

She holds a business degree from HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) as well as a Master  Degree in EU Law.

Chantal Restivo-Alessi

Chantal Restivo-Alessi is Chief Digital Officer and CEO International Foreign Language for HarperCollins Publishers, leading the overall global digital strategy and foreign language publishing program for the company. She works with each division around the world to manage commercial relationships with new and existing digital partners, grow digital revenues, oversee the company’s developing foreign language publishing program. She is also a member of the company’s executive committee. She was appointed Chief Digital Officer in May 2012 and expanded her role to CEO, International Foreign Language in April 2015.

Since joining HarperCollins, Restivo-Alessi has pioneered the use of new digital sales channels, signing numerous deals with new distributors, such as subscription services Scribd and Storytel, and growing digital sales exponentially (175%). In addition, she led the launch of the company’s e-commerce platform on HC.com and has spearheaded efforts for the company’s other direct-to-consumer programs across the globe.

Shauna Moran

Shauna works as a Trends Manager at a London-based audience profiling company. After completing a Master’s Degree in International Relations, she started working at GWI, and developed a passion for social media, tech, and finance trends. She spends the bulk of her time analysing GWI data and using it to tell powerful stories.

Alyna Wnukowsky

Alyna Wnukowsky, 44, has been the managing director at Libri since April 2022 and CEO since July 2022. Prior to this, she worked for the French Quadient SA company, where she was the managing director for Germany and Austria, before also becoming a member of the worldwide executive committee being in charge of business process automation. After starting her career at AOL Germany in Hamburg, Alyna Wnukowsky worked for the Bertelsmann Direct Group in Paris for many years. She was responsible for the e-commerce and e-book activities for the book club and bookstores. After Bertelsmann sold the French Direct Group, Alyna Wnukowsky became a member of the executive board of the successor company Actissia. Having studied internationally, she has a degree in business administration and is the mother of two children.