Marion Freijsen

Career Highlights:
1987 - MBO/LBO Analyst CreditAnstalt Bankverein, London
1990 - Sales & Support Bloomberg, Europe
1991 - Sales S&P ComStock, responsible Germany/Benelux
1995 - VP Sales Reuters, new product line
1996 - VP Sales, Europe NewsEDGE
2000 - Commercial Director SpeedPort
2000 - sold SpeedPort to Versatel, The Netherlands
2001 - Director Sales, Currenex Ltd
2004 - Founded Elegio BV
2004 - Founding Partner and CEO OHM Business Development
2007 - Founding Partner  E.Factor (www.efactor.com)
2007 - Founding Partner Cranevision, Inc. (www.cranevision.biz)

has had over 20 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience inInternational business with a primary focus on Technology and SalesManagement. From an early start in Merchant Banking in London in 1987,she has worked solely in commercial roles at technology companies, atfive different hi-tech start-ups.

Throughout her career – Marion has been successful in expanding theorganisation's activities in greenfield regions across Europe. She hassold, or managed a wide variety of technology solutions ranging fromhighly complex enterprise solutions to serving the specific demands ofon-line trading markets.

During the course of the past 20 odd years, Marion has set-up andmanaged offices in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands and built anextensive network amongst the financial services industry and blue-chipmulti-national corporates across Europe and the US.

Marion is co-founder and Executive Board Member of OHM, andco-founder of The E.Factor and Cranevision. At E.Factor she has beenresponsible for the entire build from concept to finished product ofthe website and continues the development on an ongoing basis.

Marion is author of the book "The N-Factor - how Networking canchange the dynamics of your business", which she wrote with AdrieReinders and which was published in the US in May 2007. 

She is a frequent speaker at events on Technology and Entrepreneurshipand Business Plan competition judge and panellist at Business Schoolsglobally. Marion writes a weekly blog on "Do's and Don'ts inEntrepreneurship" 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 - sheparticipates in sports from waterskiing and paragliding to more regularsports such as running, mountainbiking, swimming and fitness. Her mainachievements were in Triathlon - culminating in her participation inthe 1994 World Championships for the Netherlands (Amateurs).