Speakers | LATAM Newsroom & Business Transformation 2021
LATAM Newsroom & Business Transformation 2021
PROGAM LEADS
Principal Consultant, WAN-IFRA Consulting, Germany
Gregor Waller provides consulting services to international media businesses for developing their digital strategy and transforming their business models for the digital era. Before this, he worked for more than six years in various management functions for Germany's Axel Springer publishing corporation. Most recently, up to February 2011, as a member of the management team of the WELT group, Berliner Morgenpost, Hamburger Abendblatt, he was responsible for strategy & innovation and commercial management of the Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg. After testing a "prototype tablet" with his core newspaper readers – one year before the iPad – he focused on the topics of digital strategy, digital business models and paid content, bringing his experience in these areas to bear also in strategic group projects.
From 1998-2004 he worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH in positions such as commercial manager for publishing houses Prestel and Xenos Verlag. Waller has a graduate degree in business administration from the University of Augsburg and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the Munich School of Philosophy.
Director of Business Strategy and Partnerships, Local Media Association, USA
GUEST SPEAKERS
Product Manager, Quartz, US
Director of Audience Development Media News Group, USA
Daniel is the digital director of audience development for MediaNews Group. His work focuses on building loyal audiences and growing digital subscribers to the company’s publications, which The Denver Post and the Boulder Daily Camera among others. He previously worked as a digital editor for The Denver Post for nearly eight years in a variety of digital roles.