Michele Cobb, a spoken word enthusiast, is Executive Director of both The Audio Publishers Association and The Podcast Academy. She is also a partner at Forte Business Consulting, which provides Business Development and Association Management services for the publishing industry.
Santos Palazzi is the Head of Mass Market and Digital at Grupo Planeta. In this role, he oversees Planeta’s children’s and young adult publishing division, science fiction, fantasy and graphic novel imprints, as well as pocket or paperback publishing division. For the past 12 years, he has led the digital development of the publishing division at Planeta. The main goals and achievements of the digital division are: to establish a consistent and extensive e-book and audiobook catalog, to secure agreements with local and international e-retailers, and to develop digital initiatives and tools to increase the findability and visibility of books and authors.
As the Director of Branded Editions for PressReader, Hugo has more than 8 years of experience providing technology solutions to publishers and other content creators, as well as supporting their audience and subscriber development in both B2B and B2C verticals.
With a focus on SaaS for newspapers and magazines publishers, PressReader’s Branded Editions platform is used by the likes of The New York Times, The Financial Times, Hola! and South China Morning Post, to name a few.
Hugo holds an MBA from Vancouver Island University and a Masters of Science in International Management from University of Hertfordshire. He is an experienced speaker, participating in several conferences worldwide.
Matt leads on operations and processes for the company, as well as exec producing projects for clients including BBC, PBS, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Wellcome Trust. Before founding Storythings in 2011 he worked for over a decade in senior digital roles at Channel 4 and the BBC, including roles as Head of Innovation at BBC and Head of Multiplatform at Channel 4. He also started the Public Media Stack project, and will eventually one day finish his book about the history of attention metrics, which is actually way more interesting than it sounds. Matt also sits on the Board of Directors at Storythings.
“All we need is passion for lifelong learning !”
Head of Global School Business at Odilo, where our mission is to create equality in Education by making digital content of the highest quality easily accessible and affordable for all, promote strong learning habits, and help everyone reach their full potential by providing personalized smart learning solutions.
Graduate in Economics (International Economy and Development) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Executive MBA by Instituto de Empresa. With over 20 years’ background in major companies in the Education and Publishing industry, he has extensive experience dealing with printed and digital learning resources and services, including school and higher education textbooks, school’s management platforms, foreign languages learning materials, literature for children and young adults, assessment tools and teacher training services.
Commercial and International Sales Director at Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. Physical, digital, export and corporate sales are covered by the function I lead.
Being member of the Board at PRHGE I also hold under my responsibilities the direction of the group’s company in Portugal.
After my ESADE Management and MBA degrees I joined Bacardi-Martini Spain marketing department before co-managing Ediciones Beascoa from 1995 to 2001.
I then started my career at what was Random House Mondadori back in 2001 when Ediciones Beascoa became part of the Group.
After the integration I held various positions (Export Director, Sales Director and Marketing Director) before assuming my current responsibilities.
Managing Director, international and multicultural consultant. Specialist in management, distribution, sale, promotion of books and digital content (audio, video) in physical bookstores, libraries and online. Lecturer in forums on publishing and the book world. Visiting professor in various Publishing Master’s courses.
Antonio has been pioneer in Spain in the development and online sale of paper and digital books, responsible for the implementation of Amazon Spain as Senior Manager Amazon/Kindle and KDP, Amazon ‘s self-publishing platform . VP Content Leer-e. Coordinator and manager of the e- commerce project libelista.com.
Managing Director and President, with more than 33 years of management experience with a deep and extensive knowledge of the publishing sector, both in Trade, STM and Text, in Spain, Latin America and the USA in McGraw-Hill, Grijalbo/ Mondadori, Grupo Santillana (Chile and USA) Y OUP Mexico.
Director and Vice President with responsibilities in publishing, sales, marketing and international distribution at Ediciones B , Harper Collins (US, Latam) and Andrés Bello México among other posts in several companies.
