Felim McGrath is Trends Manager at GlobalWebIndex, an audience profiling company that runs the world’s largest ongoing study on the digital consumer in order to quantify the perceptions and behaviors of every connected consumer in the world.
Felim oversees the GWI’s Trends team, who produce the company’s reports and infographics, as well as their Chart of the Day and GWITrends webinar series. He is a contributor to publications such as The Drum, Campaign Magazine, Bloomberg, The Independent and Admap Magazine.
Before beginning his career in digital consumer insights, he gained a Ph.D in the Social Sciences from Trinity College, Dublin and studied at the University of Cambridge.
Ruth is Director of Global Sales, Digital Solutions at Ingram Content Group. Ingram’s digital solutions include digital audio and eBook distribution and services to enhance title discoverability and sales performance. Ruth represents Ingram on a number of industry groups, and is Chair of the BIC Board of Directors.
I am an Executive in the Development Services Industry, specialized in Video Games development and live services. My ambition is and always has been to make a difference and have fun. I like to build data driven organizations, where innovation, operational excellence and cost efficiency are just right for whatever company or project I am working on. I enjoy change and actively seek it in at work and at home.
Rüdiger Wischenbart, born in 1956 in Graz, Austria, is the founder of “Content and Consulting” (since 2003), and a writer specialized in culture, cultural industries, the global book markets, innovation in the book industry, literature, media, and communication.
Most recently, he co-founded ReBoot Books, a series of professional debates on the international book business (www.rebootbooks.org ), and the Digital Consumer Book Barometer, a market report series with a focus on ebooks, audiobooks, online sales and subscription. (www.global-ebook.com ) Since 2007, he annually updates the Global 50 Ranking of the Publishing Industry (www.wischenbart.com/ranking), co-authors the Diversity Report series n literary translation in Europe (since 2008, www.culturaltransfers.org ), and he coordinates SIDT, a collaborative project for innovation trainings under a Creative Europe grant. (www.sidt-books.eu )
A former Head of Communications at the Frankfurt Book Fair and Director of International Affairs at BookExpo America, Wischenbart authored several books on migration and modernization in Central and South East Europe, notably “Canettis Angst” (1994).
Graduated in Business Administration from ESADE, where she also obtained an MBA, Larrauri completed her training in Arizona, at Thunderbird School, where she obtained a Master in International Management.
Larrauri has been working in the book industry for nineteen years. In 2010 she joined Libranda as Managing Director, the leading international distributor of digital books in the Spanish language. Since the integration of Libranda in the Canadian digital services company, De Marque Group, she is also playing the role of Europe and LATAM market manager at De Marque. Previously, she worked in the commercial area of the publishing group Random House Mondadori (currently Penguin Random House) and in Círculo de Lectores, occupying various positions in the central offices that the book club had in Spain and Portugal.
At Libranda and at De Marque, Larrauri and the team work with publishers, stores, libraries and other agents with the aim of developing digital services for the book industry. She believes that it is an opportunity and a great challenge to participate in the evolution of a sector.
