Samuel Carvalho

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About Samuel Carvalho

Responsible for Angola Cables products design, pricing and pre-sales, global industry conferences, events, new products, media relations, and digital leads program, head of staff to CEO, institutional and marketing EMEA (Angola, Nigeria, South Africa), Americas (US, Brazil) and Asia. Samuel experience, gained over 20 years, in operational and marketing consultancy projects for Finance and FMGC companies as Banco Espirito Santo, LG, Samsung, Kellogg’s, Mars, Johnson and Johnson, Mercedes-Benz Portugal, Phillip Morris International, prior to telecom marketing strategy and services management at TMN (Portugal), Portugal Telecom (Portugal, Brazil, Africa) ALTICE GROUP (France, US, Portugal). From the past years as Global Head of Product and Marketing to Angola Cables, has been instrumental to position Angola as a major digital business hub on the African and South American continent connectivity, enabling Angola Cables Wholesale international operation services to outperform de company as top tier carrier presence within the World subsea industry. Under his direction Angola Cables has put in place a "Global Deep Connection" marketing and product strategy to strive company operation results, promoting CDN's, IXP's, IP products, Gaming and Esports events efficient connectivity, Cloud Services, Data Centres, re-defining major assets submarine cable routes role: WACS, Monet and SACS - the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), the first Trans-Atlantic, ultra-low latency cable connecting the continent of Africa to South America. Managing Angola Cables marketing team of products, campaigns and spearheading communication, has been pivotal in contributing to extend Angola Cables reputation into an international wholesale (Top #50 World carrier) and most interconnected Africa Operator with launching innovative products to this industry, leading the company to several industry awards securing Angola Cables’ membership relevance to the World Economic Forum (WEF) having regular presence in digitalization and sustainability work groups. Strong experience on Marketing Plan, product design, business strategy, brand campaigns, sponsorship negotiation, digital transformation and social media/digital acquisition is also co-founder of “Social Brands” social media and digital transformation consultancy agency. Digital Transformer, Esports evangelist, technology seeker, music lover, innovative communicator, smartphone and IOT “beta tester”, self-motivated developer to build disruption with relevance. Only dreams about the future.