Listen to podcast interview with Carlos Santiago, president, Santiago Solutions Group & Santiago ROI and Derene Allen, managing partner, Santiago Solutions Group about Best In Class Hispanic Strategies
Posted by Elena del Valle on August 20, 2007
Carlos Santiago and Derene Allen of Santiago Solutions Group
Photos:Santiago Solutions Group
A podcast interview with Carlos Santiago, president, Santiago Solutions Group and Santiago ROI and Derene Allen, managing partner, Santiago Solutions Group, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, they discuss best practices to reach Hispanics with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Carlos is a marketing strategy expert whose new paradigms in resource allocation, target marketing and quantitative prediction of multicultural purchasing behavior have been highlighted by national media including CNBC and The Wall Street Journal. Carlos has consulted and created profit and loss business units, branding and retail strategies across many industries.
Beginning his career at Anheuser-Busch’s strategic planning group, he internally consulted for beer, bread, snacks, bottled water and parks subsidiaries. Later, he was director of Ethnic Markets for Pacific Bell, where he launched Latino and Asian direct response initiatives targeting record growth. As NYNEX vice president of Premium Markets & Sales, he led the company’s first centralized unit dedicated to Latinos, African Americans and Asians, rolling-out programs for growth, loyalty and reengineering processes.
“Best in Class Hispanic Strategies” audio recording
Presenters Carlos Santiago and Derene Allen
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Find out what makes 25 percent of the top 500 Hispanic market advertisers out perform the remaining companies
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Discover what questions to ask and what steps to be a Best in Class companies
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Derene heads Santiago Solution Group’s San Francisco practice bringing with her direct response, loyalty and Latin American marketing experience. Prior to joining the Santiago Solution Group, Derene was general manager for Fiera, a Latino e-commerce site. Derene was an adjunct professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. While in Mexico, she served as consultant for CCM-FEMSA (a leading beer-soda conglomerate), UNICEF and AeroMexico.
Previously, Derene co-founded The Innova Group, an international marketing firm where she consulted for Johnson & Johnson, Cigna, Philips, Kodak, Dannon, Nestlé and Proctor & Gamble. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco and an entrepreneurship instructor for The Women’s Initiative’s Alas program for Latinas, a non-profit. She is a contributing co-author of the Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations book. A native of Aruba, she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and served on the Board of MANA, a national Latina leadership organization.
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Read Derene’s chapter about “A Deeper Look into the U.S. Hispanic Market ” in
Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations Understanding and Targeting America’s Largest Minority book
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