Founder StartPR.com / Adjunct Professor U. of Miami
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
- Current
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- Director at VoxMedical
- Adjunct Professor at University of Miami School of Communication
- Founder and Concept Creator at StartPR.com
- Past
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- Director, Community and Marketing at Scrapblog
- Vice President at Middlebrook Group
- Director, Strategy and Development at DioraNews
- Senior Director, Business Services at Buongiorno Vitaminic
- Co-Founder & VP Business Development at E-Mail Vision
- Managing Consultant at C&C
- Senior Consultant at Towers Perrin
- Account Manager and Market Manager at Kelley Swofford Roy
- Education
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- INSEAD
- University of Miami - School of Business
- Universidade de São Paulo
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Alex de Carvalho’s Summary
An avid user of social networks, Alex works at the intersection of online social interaction, website user experience, and marketing programs. He specializes in the practical application of social media platforms, culture, and ethics for external and internal community engagement.
Alex teaches at the University of Miami School of Communication, where he lectures about social media to both students and professors. During the semester-long course, journalism and PR students learn about online identity and expression, community engagement, brand building, and citizen journalism.
He is the co-founder of StartPR, an online service for reputation management, blogger relations, and brand monitoring. StartPR helps you to notice and engage with people who are mentioning you and your products and services.
Alex advocates for the growing South Florida tech and new media community. He is the initiator of the Social Media Club's South Florida chapter. He also runs BarCamp Miami "un-conferences" and co-organizes RefreshMiami, the network of new media professionals. He is building the region's chapter of Mobile Monday. Over the past three years, these activities and events have helped startup companies develop new business, create partnerships, and find talent.
Alex brings a combination of strategy and organizational consulting, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he co-founded a leading European startup that delivers online hosted marketing services. Prior to that, he advised blue-chip companies on strategy, organization, and communications, including Air France, Le Parisien, the Government of Mexico, British Airways, Repsol, VISA, Saint-Gobain, Publicis, General Motors and Nortel Networks.
An Insead MBA, Alex speaks English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Finnish.
You may reach me at alex [at] alexdc.org
Alex de Carvalho’s Experience
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Director
VoxMedical
(Online Media industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
VoxMedical is a worldwide online community for the medical profession. VoxMedical provides an environment where healthcare professionals may discuss clinical symptoms, treatments, and prevention.
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Adjunct Professor
University of Miami School of Communication
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Designed and taught “Social Media: Branding, Community-Building and Citizen Journalism,” covering a range of social media culture, theory, technology and platforms for both personal and corporate objectives.
- Explored with students best practices and techniques for online expression, identity-management, community-building and citizen journalism through social media.
- Developed case studies and invited guest speakers to expose students to new effective strategies and applications of social media tools. -
Founder and Concept Creator
StartPR.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Conceptualized and offshored development and design of this hosted blogger-relations online application, which allows users to track and manage what bloggers and social networkers say about their companies, brands, products, clients and individuals on over 100 million blogs worldwide.
Currently managing the launch and growth of this business-to-business service developed for corporate marketing departments and for public relations and advertising agencies, allowing users to track mentions instantly, monitor sites linking to them most, annotate and store their favorite posts, coordinate responses with their colleagues and create reports detailing their buzz and their blogger-relations activity. -
Director, Community and Marketing
Scrapblog
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)
Built the user base from 16,000 members to over 200,000 current members in less than a year and grew usage in Brazil from zero to fifty percent of current website traffic, with no marketing or advertising budget and no dedicated staff.
Developed online and offline social-media strategy and community-management role from scratch by:
-Using wide range of social media platforms, tools and services, including blogging, micro-blogging, social networks, forums and RSS.
-Determining best social architecture for the website to engage users.
-Assessing and responding to the needs of users and creating business processes for member feedback, customer service and issue resolution.
-Overcoming obstacles by balancing needs of the company with needs of the community.
-Implementing an internal dashboard to measure members’ activity related to usage of spent in the application and on the website.
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Vice President
Middlebrook Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
September 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 5 months)
Strongly focused on positioning and service innovation for business and consumer markets. Work includes providing marketing and management advice for companies expanding internationally: market research, product strategy, marketing and advertising strategy, public relations and identification of local partners.
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Director, Strategy and Development
DioraNews
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2003 — March 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Developed year-long company-wide strategic business plan. Investigated emerging consumer wireless media markets in Europe. Developed business case for executive management team, worked with engineering to specify services, performed competitive analysis, determined features & benefits and created a P&L for the new consumer business unit to determine overall financial viability.
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Senior Director, Business Services
Buongiorno Vitaminic
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BVIT; Online Media industry)
February 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Established new Business Services line in Europe: determined customer and market requirements, drove overall strategy, developed marketing and launch plans, and communicated vision internally and externally.
- Built strategic relationships and negotiated software/advertising bundling deals.
- Hired, trained and managed sales teams in France, UK, Austria, Spain and Germany.
- Defined pricing, product strategy and sales objectives for European sales force.
- Led application design team and worked with engineering to determine product roadmap. -
Co-Founder & VP Business Development
E-Mail Vision
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 5 months)
- Principal executive team member that grew company valuation from $0.2M to $50M at peak, responsible for all pricing, positioning, packaging, and launch activities.
- Wrote business plan and raised first- (€2M) and B-financing round (€5M).
- Set up subsidiaries in Paris, London and Hamburg; hired and trained country managers.
- Managed product marketing, communications and PR activities.
- Built account sales team for full-service, hosted application service provisioning.
- Landed top European clients, including France Telecom, MTV, CCF and Bouygues Telecom.
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Managing Consultant
C&C
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 6 months)
+ Advised on corporate strategy for Air France before their first capital markets flotation, resulting in the SkyTeam alliance with Delta Airlines
+ Developed new in-flight service standards for Air France based on customer experience segmentation
+ Reorganized distribution for Le Parisien (French top 5 daily) by replacing the NMPP (Cooperative for press distribution in France) with in-house distribution -
Senior Consultant
Towers Perrin
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 1995 — March 1998 (3 years 1 month)
+ Developed cost-reduction strategies for Chevron Oil's United States upstream business
+ Redesigned the Audit Department organization for General Motors
+ Conducted global market analysis for Corning Saint-Gobain / Eurokera, world market-leader in glass ceramics
+ Other clients included British Airways, Repsol, VISA, Borealis and Nortel Networks -
Account Manager and Market Manager
Kelley Swofford Roy
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 1991 — December 1993 (2 years 11 months)
+ Developed advertising, positioning and database marketing campaigns for clients
+ Managed public relations crisis management program for the Government of Mexico, Immigration and Customs
+ Other clients included Soviet Aeroflot Airlines and ENTRA, a start-up telecom company serving South America
Alex de Carvalho’s Education
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INSEAD
MBA , January 1994 — December 1994
International Herald Tribune Scholarship
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University of Miami - School of Business
BBA , Economics, International Finance and Marketing , 1985 — 1990
Foster Bowman Ashe Scholarship
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Universidade de São Paulo
Economics September 1988 — June 1989
Stanford University International Study Programme
