Experience

S&S Alliance International Publishing

• Head of Rights - International Sales Director

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Step & Step Alliance is a children's book publishing brand under the Beijing Huirui Times Culture Group (established in January 2008), supporting children's comprehensive and balanced development. Step & Step Alliance is currently positioned in the domestic high-end children's book market and is developing a strong and effective international Team to develop sales of rights and co-productions worldwide. The product range covers high-quality board books and novelty books of all sorts, excellent quality sound books, puzzle books and games, non-fiction books, interactive cognitive books, creative pop-up books, classic picture books, children's English reading materials.A variety of their books have won domestic and foreign printing awards.Relying on the strong overseas resources accumulated by Huirui Group's professional printing service management system, Step & Step Alliance has reached exclusive copyright strategy agreements with well-known children's book publishers like the Italian White Star, the Belgian Yoyo and the Spanish Combel and Phaidon, UK, among the others. Simultaneously, the company has started actively developing local and internationally-sourced original works, exploring outstanding domestic and international authors and illustrators, and actively promoting excellent original children's books for international rights and co-production sales worldwide.Love to play, love to read and following step by step childhood and development!An open door to knowledge connecting the world!



Find Out Team

• Italy
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cofounder and Owner, Managing Director

  • Mar 2011 - Present

  Find Out Team is an Italian literary and publishing agency specialized in Board Books, Picture Books, Juvenile and YA Fiction. Our polyglot team can speak and read in English, French, German, Spanish, and Chinese so we can select the best children’s literature in foreign markets and find direct contacts without using subagents. After more than 8 years in business, Find Out Team has established a solid presence in the European and Asian markets and is now developing in North and South America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.



LA COCCINELLA (GEMS Group)

• International Sales & Rights Manager

  • Sep 2012 - Feb 2019

  International Sales & Rights Manager and International Business Developer with over 20-year broad experience in international marketing & sales organization management in the Publishing Business. With experience in worldwide market development through Distribution agreements and Agencies management. With direct experience both in B2B and B2C fields.Multilingual (Italian, English, German, Spanish and basic Chinese Mandarin)La Coccinella is a leading Publisher in board books with more than 35 years of experience and specialized in die-cut board books for playing and learning. Long time ago La Coccinella invented.... "a hole with a book around it" and long time ago we started playing with children and enabling them to discover and learn through playing, using not only their eyes and their ears, but also their hands to express creativity, logic and intelligence and learning with fun. We are still going on with great success...



Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale S.R.L.

• Italy

• Executive Director

  • Dec 2012 - Sep 2015

  Founded in 1898, ALI was the first Literary Agency in Italy and is one of a few in the world that can boast a history of over a century.ALI works on an exclusive basis in Italy for a number of foreign Literary Agencies and Publishing Houses and acts as exclusive agent in Italy and abroad for dozens of world renowned Italian writers. In addition, Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale promotes worldwide rights for the works of world famous Andrea Camilleri, published in Italy by Sellerio Editore.The agency also carries out activities of talent scouting for emerging Italian Authors and also provides manuscripts appraisal services.



De Agostini Libri SpA

• INTERNATIONAL SALES MANAGER

  • Sep 1989 - Jul 2012

  Job Position: International Sales Manager for the Book Business Areas depending directly from the Business Area Managing Director.After more than 5 years as translator and part of the editorial team in the Illustrated Books and Tourism Editorial staff, I was appointed as International Sales Manager for the DeA Book Division with the following tasks:- the set-up and management of the network of agents for the European and Overseas countries where DeA is at present active. Scouting work for Sales Development in countries DeA is not yet present.- close cooperation with the Editorial Director for the development of ad hoc projects and concepts for international markets’ requests and needs;- preparation and development of commercial offers for the sales of traditional and new media cartographic products, of proposals for joint-venture agreements and foreign co-editions;- organization and participation at Publishing Fairs all over the world together with specific missions to the different countries of the world for Sales Development actions.- Contractual writing and signing for Licensing, Coedition and Purchasing Agreements with international partners;- handling and coordination for the production of all requests coming from overseas commercial agents and/or direct customers regarding supply of materials, estimates, workingmethods of editorial works, estimates for printing and delivering, in close collaboration with the Editorial Director and the Production Director;- handling of all the orders from stock and the reprinting of coedition deals.- handling of Foreign Rights for the DeAgostini Books property works, which include yearly reception of account statements and the preparation of relative invoicing;- preparation of Draft Budget for the whole International Sales Business Area, in close contact with the Controller's office for data relating to Revised Budget, Pre-closure and Closure prospects.