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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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Why join E.Factor?
Posted: Dec 25, 2008 11:26 AM
Tags: membership, E.Factor, services, deals, entrepreneur
My Blogs
- 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.
If you are in an area where you can get up into the hills – GOOOOO! It’s so incredibly exhilarating to ride high over the ridges – even though the climb up to the ridge and the bit down again usually will take the most time and the easy riding on the top will only [...]
Here I am writing a blog about health… and end up talking about illness. However it’s the natural other side of being healthy and worth spending a few words on. And those words are “don’t let being sick stop you from being healthy!”. What I mean is that too often a slight cold, or even [...]
You’re only as good as…. your equipment
As regular readers know by now, I am all for exercising outdoors. I run outside, bike outside, ski, skate, do my weight sessions and stretches outside whenever I can. Part of my love of sports, is that I CAN do all these things outdoors, get some much needed oxygen into my system and feel that [...]
I was watching a programme this week on TV, whilst on my treadmill of course , which was claiming this wonderful new fitness movement. Basically, what it boiled down to was the fact that it combined a good solid exercise routine based on yoga moves, pilates and cardiovascular work-out elements with positive thinking. Well [...]
During these long dark winterdays, it sometimes seems that you are endlessly waiting for a little bit of light to filter through into our lives. So let me help you with this special playlist I created. It will bring that a little sunshine and a lot of beat into your exercising hours! The playlist is built [...]
E.Factor Blogs
all I have written on E.Factor
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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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Stephanie Frasco - To Innovate and Inspire the Online World as We Know It. Germany
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Annemiek de Rijk - Netherlands
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Caroline de Kleijn - Netherlands
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Herbert van Hoogdalem - To help, to inspire, to inform, to connect. To be helped, to be inspired, to be informed, to be connected. Netherlands
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Richard Rademaker - Netherlands
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Charles Rurup - Netherlands
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Michael Swiskay - Mutually beneficial entrepreneurial relationships United States








