Giorgia Russo

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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.

 

Mariana Féged

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General Manager, Spanish Markets, France, and EMEA at Bookwire

Mariana Féged oversees Bookwire’s activities across Europe (excluding Germany) and Latin America. In this position, she manages a catalog of nearly half a million eBooks and over 100,000 audiobooks from publishers such as Bloomsbury, Editis, Faber & Faber, Grupo Planeta, and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, among others.

With a career spanning over 20 years, Mariana has specialized in digital business development in the publishing industry. She has held positions such as Head of Digital and Marketing at Círculo de Lectores and Director of Innovation at Arvato, part of the Bertelsmann group, where she worked for more than 13 years.

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Eva Orúe

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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.

 

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Mark Thornton

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Mark Thornton is the Senior Partnership Manager for Bookshop.org in the UK. Having founded the award-winning Mostly Books in 2006, he was an independent bookseller for 11 years and a bookshop mentor with the Unwin Charitable Trust before joining Bookshop.org in 2020 as part of the UK launch team. His role involves looking after the more than 550 independent bookshops on the platform, helping develop bookseller online sales and digital skills, and building key partnerships in other bookselling areas, including children’s books.

Raúl Pérez

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Raúl Pérez has worked in media-related industries for over 20 years in companies like RBA, El País and CNN+. In 2011 Raúl Joined Grupo Planeta´s Publishing Division. As Digital Transformation Manager (Office of the CEO), Raúl was charged in 2013 of defining and coordinating a corporate digital strategy among all BUs. In 2016 he moved to an intrapreneur role and in 2018 was charged by the CEO to build Planeta´s Corporate Venture Capital Unit. Raúl rejoined the Publishing Division in 2019 and was appointed Managing Director of Nubico in 2020.

Currently, Raúl is Head of Digital of Planeta´s Publishing Division.

Raúl has completed studies in Management (IESE, Esade), Economics (Pompeu Fabra University) and Journalism (El País-UAM).

Marcelo Gioia

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Marcelo is a book professional with a background in Marketing. He holds a degree in Marketing Administration at ESPM (Superior School of Marketing and Advertising) in São Paulo and a MBA degree at FGV – Getulio Vargas Foundation.

He has worked for a number of publishing houses, in various areas and departments, and since 2009 he has been an evangelist for books in digital formats. He was responsible for the first Brazilian e-reading platform and since 2012 has been acting as Managing Director of Bookwire in Brazil, an aggregator of ebooks, audiobooks and Print on Demand services.

Currently is a participant member of the Innovation & Tech Comittee at CBL – Brazilian Book Chamber.

Madeline McIntosh

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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.

Javier del Puerto

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Javier del Puerto is a Senior Account Manager at Bookwire EMEA. Based in London, he partners with top publishers like Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, and Saga Egmont across Europe and the Middle East. He spearheaded successful NFT launches for Planeta and PRH Spain and actively advocates for AI-powered innovation in publishing. With a background in IT and e-commerce honed in a decade living in China, he brings tech-savvy strategy to the world of digital publishing.

Piero Crocenzi

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Piero Crocenzi (Avezzano, February 12, 1979).

During his studies in Management Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin, he became a member of the Associazione Universitaria JEToP. In this context, he took his first steps in event organization by creating Carriera & Futuro, the career day of the Polytechnic University of Turin.

In 2002, he was called by the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura  to organize Mestieri in Mostra – the Salon of Professional Opportunities, a collaboration that continued as the head of the Technical Office of the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino from 2007 to 2019.

In 2006, along with Silvio Viale and Barbara Carena, he founded Eventi 3 srl, a company specialized in organizing trade fairs and conferences, currently active in Italy and abroad with dozens of events organized and held every year, employing more than 20 people.

Since 2006, he has been in charge of the technical office of the Fiera della Piccola e Media editorial di Roma, Più libri più liberi, which is held at the Nuvola Eur Convention Center.

For ten years, from 2008 to 2018, he was the Head of the Technical Office of Terra Madre, Salone Internazionale del Gusto, and some Slow Food events such as Cheese and Slow Fish.

In 2018, following the liquidation of the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura, he became a member of the Associazione Torino, la città del libro.

The Association won the auction for the brand of the Turin International Book Fair and became its owner.

From 2019 to the present, he has held the role of CEO of Salone Libro srl, a company that organizes, markets, and communicates the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino on behalf of the Association.

Piero Crocenzi is passionate about natural wines: from this interest, two projects were born, C’era una voltaand Augusta, natural wine fairs in Italy that welcome dozens of producers from all over Europe every year.

Sakari Luovio

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Sakari Luovio is Chief Sales Officer at Adlibris.com since 2016, the market leading online-bookseller in the Nordics with strong presence also in brick & mortar. Before Adlibris Sakari was Head of Sales in the Nordics at Canadian publishing house Harlequin Enterprises and between the jobs within the book industry he was responsible for the sales in Nordics at Warner Bros for few years. He is also a Vice Chairman in the Booksellers Association of Finland since 2019, with the agenda to improve the business environment of Finnish bookstores and their interests. At Adlibris Sakari has set the commercial omnichannel strategy where the book is in the very center of it supported by the nonbooks-categories together with a data driven customer-obsessed organization. Sakari has a deep understanding of the dynamics of the book industry in the Nordics and in customer and monetary value drivers within ecommerce. Sakari has learning as his key personal driver – continuously learning how to optimize the omnichannel customer experience that converts to maximal sales.