Samuel Leonel

Current

• Product Development Manager at indeXet LLC

Past

• Relationship Manager at Thomson Reuters
• Chief Product Officer at indeXet LLC
• Content Licensing Specialist, Latin America at Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company

• Customer Liason at Reuters

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Education

• Fundação Getulio Vargas

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Industry

Information Services

Samuel Leonel’s Summary

I started my carrier as a business & financial information professional, and have been involved with business content segments since 1998 when I joined Reuters as a marketing executive.

In 2000 I was appointed to be a Content Licensing Specialist for Latin America at Factiva, the Dow Jones & Reuters joint-venture in the Business Intelligence market (position I held until the end of 2002).

In 2003 I joined two other associates in US to co-found a startup company focused in developing online content management & distribution systems for small and medium sized content publishers.

Later in 2006, I moved to Europe for family reasons and in 2007 I was offered a Data Supplier Relationship Management temporary position at Thomson Financial to use my previous experience in this industry to help them with contractual issues during the Thomson and Reuters merger (completed in 2008).

Early in 2009 I have rejoined indeXet full time to help them release (Q3-09) a new content distribution platform designed to help newspapers and magazines publishers to make available large historical content archives through the web.

Samuel Leonel’s Specialties:

- Partnerships/Business development;
- Marketing and Financial planning;
- Negotiation skills;
- Intellectual Property legal expertise;
- Projects and People management;
- Products and services development (digital content related);
- Extensive marketing and sales copy writing experience.

Samuel Leonel’s Experience

• Product Development Manager

  indeXet LLC

  (Information Services industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  I have rejoined indeXet as a full time product development manager to help with the Q3-2009 release of their new content distribution platform designed to help newspapers and magazines publishers to make available large historical content archives through the web.

• Relationship Manager

  Thomson Reuters

  (Information Services industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Content Projects, Relationship/Partnership development and management with content providers, aggregators and other information providers on a international level.

• Chief Product Officer

  indeXet LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Overall product strategy and development (indexing technologies, internet and intranet portals technology, content management systems, search engines and e-Commerce) and project management (new product design, requirements, development, time frames, P&L, etc...).

• Content Licensing Specialist, Latin America

  Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

  May 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 8 months)

  Relationship management with Latin American Information Providers (newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade journals, etc...), negotiating agreements and closing licensing and redistribution deals. Also responsible for:
  - technical implementations of such content related projects;
  - legal aspects of the agreements negotiation;
  - prospecting other new media redistribution partnerships (main B2C and B2B internet gateways) within the region;
  - collaboration on regional product development efforts (Portuguese and Spanish interfaces of Factiva's products).

• Customer Liason

  Reuters

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

  December 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 6 months)

  Development of premium relationship with clients (usually Equity & Bonds traders from many of the biggest financial institutions’ trading desks in São Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro) and helping customers to better use Reuters’ information resources (news, quotes, analysis, etc...) through many field activities. Attributions included obtaining feedback about products and services, collecting data to be used for future product developments, researching/analyzing competing products and helping to solve first tier problems. Also cooperated with regional product development & management teams as well as with other areas of the marketing, IT, and sales departments (including prospecting up-selling opportunities within existing customers).

Samuel Leonel’s Education

• Fundação Getulio Vargas

  BA , Business Administration , 1994 — 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  - Author of the 1997 "International Trading and Trading Companies in Brazil" paper for the CNPQ research scholarship program.