Female Internet Hero of the week: Marina Tognetti

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marina tognetti

This week MYNGLE won the Accenture Media & Innovation Award. Marina Tognetti, founder of this online market place in language teaching, spotted the business opportunity a couple of years ago. With her mission to create an impact in the world, she realised a website with technology that enables anyone to be taught by anyone, anywhere in the world. Her presentation at the conference in Pakhuis De Zwijger was impressive. A worthy Female Internet Hero.

She has 18 years of professional experience in marketing, business development, e-commerce / technology and strategy consulting in Italy, France and The Netherlands; eBay, Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee and the Boston Consulting Group. Marina has an MBA from INSEAD.

Myngle has currently 700 teachers scheduling lessons in 49 languages. There are 12 employees, 10.000 members, and the company thinks to be profitable in 2009. Partners of Tognetti are Egbert van Keulen and Danilo da Silva. In its first round of financing 800.000 euro was invested. It is currently seeking second round financing.

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October 24, 2008 | Filed Under Simone Brummelhuis awards & events | 2 Comments 

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2 Responses to “Female Internet Hero of the week: Marina Tognetti”

  1. Rev. Fr. A. Peter Bradshaw O.S.D. on October 25th, 2008

    Writing from a bleak and isolated location which is in Cornwall, England.

    Learning to learn with Myngle is quite painless.

    The word as image….

    A vital asset in the war on ignorance.

  2. Marina Tognetti on October 25th, 2008

    Hi, my name is Marina Tognetti, the founder of Myngle.

    Thank you for the honor of being mentioned internet entrepreneur of the week.
    I hope this will also be an example to many more women out there, who have the capacity to be leaders, but have not yet dared to make the bigger step.

    I really believe that women can be excellent leaders, entrepreneurs and role models, as long as they are seen and valued for what they are and the value they can bring. Companies led or founded by women tend to have a different culture, which is not good or bad. Just different. You need diversity.

    By Myngle, some of the leading positions are also covered by very bright women. A healthy mix brings the best out of everyone, and definitely benefits the company in the long term.

    Thank you,

    Marina

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