Leo Siqueira is an editor with Argus Media, a leading provider of commodity price benchmarks.In business consulting, he is the director in Latin America with the Advanced Interactive Media Group (AIM Group), a global consulting firm specializing in marketplaces. He also consulted with other companies, including Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Group and NextonX on marketplaces. Siqueira has a ten-year background as a business journalist, having worked for a number of trade publications worldwide, covering a wide range of industries, including petrochemicals, dredging, steelmaking, sugar and ethanol, and infrastructure. Siqueira worked for almost three years as a correspondent in Brazil with ICIS, an information provider for the global petrochemical industry, and has worked with other major publishers, such as USA TODAY, Brazil's UOL, and Motorsport.com.More recently, Siqueira was a correspondent with Inframation, a company ION Investment Group bought for $1.7bn, covering the infrastructure finance market, including greenfield, brownfield, and refinancing transactions in Latin America. He also spent eight years covering the steelmaking and mining businesses, making price assessments and establishing a solid coverage, interviewing sources in both Portuguese and Spanish for timely content in English.Siqueira has joined a number of TV shows as a guest commentator, including Brazil's Redação NT, and CGTN America's The Heat. At The Heat, he discussed the challenges and opportunities arising for Brazil for hosting the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.His expertise includes general news coverage, online, print, and multimedia journalism, and business communications as well. In this particular area, he has been working with international clients.Background8+ years of experience as a business consultant and researcher in marketplaces12+ years of journalism experienceCurrently work on all media platformsHave worked with clients in the US, Brazil, and UKClient list includes global publishers such as USA Today, LatAm's UOL, ION Investment Group, and Reed Business Information
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