Dani Zacarias Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead team responsible for sourcing and developing top talent, managing creator programs and recruiting off platform creators while also leading a cross functional squad responsible for product improvements and initiatives that help creators connect with their audience, increase revenue and optimize their businesses.

Toronto, Canada Area

* Built and led a 30 person team which used a combination of user data and editorial expertise to source top talent from a pool of 2.5 million writers then edit and prepare their stories for on platform monetization and/or pitch those stories to the Wattpad Webtoon Studios team for consideration. The Studios team then turned those stories into movies.

Toronto, Canada Area

Moved Tap (a short form interactive storytelling app) from a high cost high production (video and audio) model to a lower cost text production model focused on creating addictive romance stories. Also transitioned the business model from subscription to high converting micro transactions.

Toronto, Canada Area

* Improved use of data to enable more accurate spotting of top talent, including to source winners for the Wattys, one of the world's largest writing contests* Launched the first professionally run in person conference for Wattpad writers to rave reviews

Toronto, Canada Area

Developed a system for finding and tracking up and coming talent that tripled the number of potential writers in Wattpad's pipeline

San Francisco

* Led Worldreader’s content acquisition and development strategy while the organization doubled its budget, moving from a small literacy and reading non profit to a mid sized global entity; successfully increased the size of the book collection by 200%, bringing it to 46,000 books during this period. * Mentored and managed a 15 person team that spanned 4.

San Francisco Bay Area

* Led the global Publisher and Author team to exceed all acquisition targets* Managed all North American publishing and author contacts including the Big 5. Worked with Penguin Random House to more than triple the size of their digital donation to Worldreader in terms of titles and copies and increase the number of territories for distribution. * Led a.

Barcelona

* Supported the leadership of the global publisher and author relations team, helping to create, hire for and train 4 new roles* Set up and customized a low cost light weight CRM for the Publisher and Author Relations Team to reduce email, increase efficiency and increase the quality of partnership management* Created marketing collateral to support.

Barcelona Area, Spain

* Managed publisher and author relationships around the world with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and India. * Critically contributed to the creation of Worldreader Kits (subsequently rebranded "Blue Boxes"), which allows for the sustainable expansion of Worldreader's work in schools and libraries across Sub Saharan Africa* Was integral to the launching and.

Toronto

Worked with high profile individuals and companies to secure funding for projects in Africa and Canada. Built, maintained and organized strategic alliances with professional groups and member groups within EWB.

Toronto

Sold educational resources to university science and math departments in Toronto. Managed seeding and negotiation of authorship contracts for textbook and digital learning resources.Won Rookie of the Year in 2008 and a spot on the Top Ten with 14% territory growth and went on to establish a successful sales record (exceeded 2009 goal by $250,000, or 7%)..