Born 1960, working for Weltbild GmbH since 2020 as Head of Category Management Media. Weltbild is one of the TOP 5 Booksellers in Germany, mainly focused on a D2C-strategy with a multi-channel strategy: from a monthly Catalogue over shops and a digital platform.

Previously Director Education at Elsevier; Head of Marketing at Piper, before that in a similar position at the Penguin Random House publishing group and Ullstein Heyne List. Career start

1988 at Callwey Verlag and before that at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich as a research assistant on the book studies program.

I have seen so many ideas, how content should be and what is the best way to reach book readers. All these models have failed since the internet appeared and new competitors entered the state of producing and selling books. Some people think, that the marketplace “Text” is losing against “Picture” and “Audio”. I don´t think they are right; I still believe in the power of storytelling, in reading and in the future of stories. That is why my motto is: We tell ourselves stories in order to live (Joan Didion).

Voluntary work: since 1999 Chairman of the working group Munich book show, 2015 to 2021 Honorary Chairman of the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers in Bavaria. Member of the Board of the Munich NS Documentation Center Association

Giorgia Russo, a millennial class 1992, has been involved in online book promotion for the last ten years, focusing particularly on social media. She started her journey in 2014 as a book influencer, an experience that brought her to join the Feltrinelli Group as Social Media Manager and Community Specialist in 2018.

Over the past six years, she has also collaborated with Scuola per Librai Umberto ed Elisabetta Mauri (UEM) actively participating in the training of booksellers in social media marketing.

Nowadays she is founding her own media agency for writers and creatives called Confujo Social Media.

 

Eva Orúe (Zaragoza, 1962) is director of the Madrid Book Fair. A journalist, she has worked in press, radio and television, and has been part of all kinds of projects, from magazines to news programs. For 10 years, she was a correspondent in the United Kingdom, France, Russia and, again, France. After returning to Spain, she co-founded and co-directed Ingenio de Divertinajes, a communications and content agency; all this, without ceasing to collaborate in political debates on both radio and television. She is the author of several books, the latest, “In the Trans-Siberian (Reino de Cordelia), in collaboration with Sara Gutiérrez.

 

Fotografía de: Isabel Infantes

 

Madeline McIntosh is the co-founder, CEO and Publisher of Authors Equity (www.authorsequity.com), a recently-launched US-based publisher dedicated to reshaping the relationship between author and publisher. She is known for her work as a digital pioneer, having played a seminal role in each of the major inflection points in the consumer book market over the past three decades, including ecommerce, digital audio, and ebooks. Prior to founding her new company, Madeline was the CEO of Penguin Random House in the US. She currently serves on the boards of Simon & Schuster and the US-based nonprofit, Poets & Writers.