Founder Of Easy Taxi Is Honored Latin Trade's Young Leader Of The Year Award

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MIAMI, Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tallis Gomes, founder of Easy Taxi, is the new and final addition to the list of honorees of the 2015 BRAVO Business Awards. Latin Trade Group, the leading provider of information and business services to companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, officially announced the winner today.

"Tallis Gomes is the first person to receive the Young Leader of the Year Award, a new category of the BRAVO Business Awards which highlights the role of Latin Americans under 40, who are opening avenues for a brighter future in the region," Latin Trade's CEO, Rosemary Winters, said. Brazilian Tallis Gomes has made a successful business in the complex public transportation market of emerging cities.

He led Easy Taxi through difficult periods. Among many other obstacles, the company had to fend off the competition of powerful established taxi companies and of other firms that have copied its business model, or even solve mapping and communication issues in countries with poor internet infrastructures or weak addressing systems. Some of these challenges forced the company to completely revamp its business model shortly after it started, and it did, with success.

Latin Trade's editorial judges were particularly impressed by Easy Taxi's accelerated growth, but more so by some traits of its growth strategy. For instance, by the fact that the company was designed as a multilatina almost from the onset. In three years its operation reached 17 million users in 53 countries and the app is available in 11 languages. Judges highlighted the role Easy taxi has played in the adoption of smartphones, and the positive effect it has had on the environmental and security in the region.

"Clearly, Latin Trade is not honoring an app creator, but an entrepreneur that has changed the way in which users and taxi owners view public transportation," Rosemary Winters, said.

Tallis Gomes will be recognized at the inaugural session of the Young Leaders Forum, on October 28, 2015 in Miami. In the inaugural conference program Agents of Change, The New Face of Innovation and Talent, young leaders as well as corporate giants will discuss the future of Latin America, and the trendsetters who are leaving an indelible mark on business in the region. The Forum will feature a special keynote address from Gomes.

In the past weeks Latin Trade announced the winners of the 2015 BRAVO Business Awards, who will be honored at the gala awards ceremony on October 29 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami:

• H.E Horacio Cartes, President of Paraguay, Innovative Leader of the Year
• Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, Secretary of Energy of Mexico, Transformational Leader of the Year
• Thilo Mannhardt, CEO of Ultrapar, CEO of the Year
• Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez, President of Grupo Bal, Transformational CEO of the Year
• Juan Domingo Beckman, CEO of Jose Cuervo, Innovative CEO of the Year
• Jose Alberto Velez, CEO of Grupo Argos, Investor of the Year
• Eduardo Belmont, CEO of Belcorp, Social Sustainability CEO of the Year
• Rodrigo Galindo, CEO of Kroton Educacional, Dynamic CEO of the Year
• Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, Advisor to Banorte, Legacy Award

About Latin Trade Symposium

On October 29th, following the Young Leaders forum, Latin Trade Group gathers 600 of the most influential Latin American business and government leaders in the Latin Trade Symposium, a one-day conference considered the preeminent forum for discussion in the region. This year's Symposium is entitled "Success Through Innovation: New Strategies, New Markets, New Faces." Partners of the Latin Trade Symposium include the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

Sponsors of the 21st BRAVO Business Awards and Latin Trade Symposium include: Avianca, HSBC, Sudameris Bank, AES, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, The Boston Consulting Group, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, Celistics and Sofftek. Partners include: Ashoka, CNN en Espanol, Financial Times, Newlink Group, Onstream Media, and PR Newswire.

About the Young Leaders Forum

The forum, entitled "Agents of Change: The New Face of Innovation and Talent,'' will take place on Wednesday, October 28th, at the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig. It is organized in partnership with Ashoka, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), MTV Latin America, and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) in cooperation with the Organization of American States. The forum will take place one day prior to the 2015 Latin Trade Symposium and 21st BRAVO Business Awards, held on October 29th at the Mandarin Oriental Miami. For more information, please visit bravo.latintrade.com.

About the Latin Trade Group

Latin Trade Group is a leading provider of information and business services to companies operating in Latin America. It publishes award-winning content in Spanish and English for distribution throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States through print, online media and events. Latin Trade Group publishes Latin Trade magazine, Latintrade.com, and is the organizer of the Latin Trade Symposium and BRAVO Business Awards, the LT CFO Series for financial executives of multinational corporations, and Sino-Americas, a new conference series designed to build bridges between China and Latin America.

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SOURCE Latin Trade Group