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Marion Freijsen
Industry: IT/Technology Region: United States
"Enthusiasm, Drive, Determination, Will to Succeed...and to making sure we continue to stimulate other entrepreneurs to make their business dream come true!"
Updates
Interests
Networking, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, Gadgets, Triathlon, Running, Sports (general), Literature, People, Sports, Fitness & Health (see blog marionfreijsen.com)
Websites
http://www.efactor.com
http://www.marionfreijsen.com
http://www.ohmbusinessdevelopment.com
Personal Affiliations/Clubs/Groups
SEP (Studiegezelschap Economische Politiek)
Biography/Misc
Marion Freijsen (Founder & CTO E.Factor and OHM) has had over 20 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience in International business with a primary focus on Technology and Sales Management. From an early start in Merchant Banking in London in 1987, she has worked solely in commercial roles at technology companies, at five different hi-tech start-ups. Throughout her career – Marion has been successful in expanding the organisation's activities in greenfield regions across Europe. She has sold, or managed a wide variety of technology solutions ranging from highly complex enterprise solutions to serving the specific demands of on-line trading markets. During the course of the past 20 odd years, Marion has set-up and managed offices in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands and built an extensive network amongst the financial services industry and blue-chip multi-national corporates across Europe and the US. Marion is co-founder and Executive Board Member of OHM, and co-founder of The E.Factor and Cranevision. At E.Factor she has been responsible for the entire build from concept to finished product of the website and continues the development on an ongoing basis. Marion is author of the book "The N-Factor - how Networking can change the dynamics of your business", which she wrote with Adrie Reinders and which was published in the US in May 2007. She is a frequent speaker at events on Technology and Entrepreneurship and Business Plan competition judge and panellist at Business Schools globally. Marion writes a weekly blog on "Do's and Don'ts in Entrepreneurship" on www.Efactor.com Marion holds a degree in International Sales & Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. Marion's main passion outside of E.Factor is sports - she participates in sports from waterskiing and paragliding to more regular sports such as running, mountainbiking, swimming and fitness. Her main achievements were in Triathlon - culminating in her participation in the 1994 World Championships for the Netherlands (Amateurs).
Business Directory
Work History
OHM Business Development, Executive Board Member
Co-Founder and Executive Board Member Responsible for assisting Technology Companies globally with their Sales Strategy and leverage in Fortune 1500 companies.E.Factor, Co-Founder/CTO
Responsible for everything relating to building, designing and functioning of the site.Crane Vision, Co Founder
Providing pre-investment advice from experts in the fields of technology, retail, CPG, telecommunication, hospitality, energy and alternative energy, semiconductor. CraneVision facilitates indepth background checks by investors with these experts and top executives in the industry to which the investment is related.the N Factor, Co-Author
Co-author of "the N Factor" written with Adrie Reinders.OHM Business Development, Executive Board Member
OHM acts as a bridge between emerging technology companies/divisions of technology providers and the Fortune 1500 corporates. The partners' combined network extends to both US and Europe across. OHM connects parties through highly qualified and personal introductions.Glimpse Games, Board Member
Keywords
Global Network, particularly strong connections and expertise in Telco, Security and Financial Services. Solid background in Technology Sales (software/service); global marketing; Legal expertise in setting up offices in various european countries. Strong Business Development skills and networking expertise. Speaker on global speaker circuit.
Résumé/CV
Schools/Degrees
Chartered Institute of Marketing
CIPM - International Marketing and Sales -My Videos
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Support for Haiti
Posted: Feb 12, 2010 03:55 AM
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Why join E.Factor?
Posted: Dec 25, 2008 11:26 AM
Tags: membership, E.Factor, services, deals, entrepreneur
My Blogs
- Quality vs. Quantity
- National Product or National Happiness?
- It's your LIFE...
- Questions, questions, questions
- HAITI - how entrepreneurs will make the difference
- Exit Strategy - part 2.
- Respect
- Energy
- True or False
- Old Fashioned Networking??
- Knowledge is Key
- Agreements
- A Nomad's life...
- Laziness?
- Falling
- Your Life's Work
- "A kinder, gentler philosophy of Success"
- Preparing the perfect pitch
- Trustworthiness & Integrity - do you value it enough?
- Stainless Steel and Swiss Time Piece
- Banking in a new world
- Partnerships
- Simply get Started - now!
- SciFi or History?
- Facebook Groups - the pitfalls
- Reply@
- Love to Learn
- Simply Selling
- Don't Worry - Be Happy
- Trends, Trouble and Technology
- Are you suffering from Sense Overload??
- Plan-itis: a modern day disease
- God, Biomimicry and Wishful Thinking
- Building your Business: Banks and Bawling
- Use your Cash wisely - Social Cash
- Building your Business: Pay it Forward - Now
- Build your Business: the Fear Factor
- Building your business: About a Glass Ceiling, Football & Tennis Players...
- Build your Business: The Power of Words
- Building Your Business: Hear no Evil, See no Evil
- Building Your Business - Knowledge is Vital to your survival
- Building your Business: The Art of being Visible
- Building Your Business - Building Hope
- Building your Business: New Year's Resolutions
- Buiding Your Business: Women Power...
- Building Your Business: It's Christmas Time
- Building your Business: a Partnership in a Pear Tree?
- Building YOUR Business - This is a Time of Opportunity
- Breathing as Prevention of War??
- Fit to Lead?!
- DO: Measure your Success!
- DO: Crisis vs. Opportunity in Advertsing
- DO: Time Management
- Do or Don't: be on a list?
- Do or Don't: a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
- DO: Grow your Business despite the economy
- DO: Be Inspired
- DON'T: Gaggenau ...or Gagge-later?!
- DO: Be Prepared
- DON'T: Can Decisions be forced?
- DON'T: Be complacent
- DO: the power of Events
- DO: build the best team
- DO: Cultivate Culture
- DO: Use Social Networks for your Business
- DO: THINK!!! (like your customer)
- DON'T: be like Nokia in a downturn
- DO: Aim for the Stars
- DO: Get bored!
- DON'T: pitfalls vs. pitstops at BMW
- DO: Learn about Web 2.0 and be creative
- DON'T: become a company to hAT&Te
- Do: be a believer
- DO: Follow up
- Do: Break the rules
- Mini-Seminar: Raising Capital
- Do: Enjoy extending great service
- Don't: Surveys - don't ask silly questions
- Do: Anticipate your customers' needs
- Don't: UPC Customer Service
- Don't: Even at Apple people make the difference
- Do's: Great Customer Service
- Do's and Don'ts for Entrepreneurs - The Series
- E.Factor - a little history....
My Library
EFMD Presentation "Social Networks"
Theme: Do Business Schools have to be on Social Networks? Presentation given at CASS University in London on 24th April 2009 by Adrie and Marion For more info or advise on how to set up your online strategy, contact us
My RSS Feeds
Sports, Health & Fitness
my small contribution to making the world a fitter, healthier and more inspired place.
Whether you are an Oscar winning actress, or simply someone like me – I can tell you exactly which accessory will always work and make you look your very best. You don’t need expensive dresses, amazing bling-bling jewelry or even a goodlooking guy on your arm . The world’s best accessory is Self-Confidence. Hold your head [...]
In the last year, I have been introduced by my PT Nando to TRX training. Yesterday I continued on the learning path with Chris Dovale at Equinox San Francisco. TRX training is a great way or working out and can literally be carried with you anywhere. I just love it. Instead of using all sorts of [...]
Giving people advice on eating and sports is my passion – I am happy to answer questions and make suggestions any day. But sometimes I have to admit to wondering why I am doing it. Those days you see that you have shared all you know on good food, and then the person who asked [...]
There are tons of myths about protein and sports. For instance, that simply eating more protein will increase your muscles. Now – it would be nice if it worked like that but then again, when have you ever found something to be that easy? No, unfortunately, eating protein alone will not build all that nice [...]
No, I didn’t make a spelling mistake- this piece of torture is called the Wundachair. It’s part of the standard Pilates session – and it is really quite amazing. A simple piece of “furniture” invented by Joseph Pilates, it is a box of wood with a moving pedal on one side that resists movement based on [...]
E.Factor Blogs
all I have written on E.Factor
E.Factor - a little history....
So, what is so cool about the E.Factor?? Well - let me start this blog by giving you a little bit of history and a short vision. We, that is Adrie...
Do's and Don'ts for Entrepreneurs - The Series
"Local" - SoHo New York I am sure we all do it - we make mistakes. We are human after all - even though the breed of Entrepreneur often thinks of...
How to treat a customer! In the series "Do's and Don'ts" for Entrepreneurs this time an example that everyone should take note of. This is one...
Don't: Even at Apple people make the difference
The Apple Experience.... One of the very first things I did when I became an Entrepreneur myself, was purchase an Apple computer. For many years, the...
Sometimes you feel as if you ended up in a Kafka novel. Earlier this week, I came home from my travels, only to find I could not for the life of me...
Do: Anticipate your customers' needs
Another week of travel. Life in the virtual world is remarkably like a real life! All of you with ambitions to build a multi-national emporium in the...
Don't: Surveys - don't ask silly questions
I love filling out forms. It must be one of those weird things that gets passed down in your genes, although I think in our case it skipped a...
Do: Enjoy extending great service
Business travel is exhausting. "Today, every business by virtue of the internet is a multinational". A serial entrepreneur I greatly admire, once...
All entrpreneurs at some point will need financing of their business. I think this is a fact that is pretty much written in stone - very few of us...
Were rules ever intended for Entrepreneurs?This question frequently plays through my mind. I mean - it's all very well to have rules for Society,...
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Adrie Reinders - involvement United States
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Roeland Reinders - business development connecting networking deals helping other members Netherlands
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Caroline de Kleijn - Netherlands
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Irthe Schurink - By working energetically with you on our strategic marketing formula, we create consistency in who you are and... Netherlands
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Mohan Ramani - To engage with other kindred spirits, explore new business opportunities, to learn from others and perhaps to... Netherlands
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Nico Veenman - partners for setting up portal based concepts in various verticals Netherlands
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Thomas Christel - My entrepreneural goals are to expand my network and help bring technology and innovation to other enterpreneurs... Italy
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Alon Ben Joseph - Love to learn and to teach! Any business is people's business, so love to meet new people! Netherlands
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Menno Rigterink - Netherlands
