Team

FOUNDER AND EDITOR

Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis worked as a successful lawyer before becoming an entrepreneur by setting up her own B2B publishing company Brummsbooks. Thereafter, as co-owner and managing director IENS, she developed this start-up into the no. 1 user generated content database publisher of restaurant guides in The Netherlands. With the Europeanmuseumguide.com, she intends to do the same. She is in the jury of the Accenture Media Innovation Awards 2008 and she presents the internet program SHE (interviews with business women) on Blueshotstv, launced in October 2008. She created TheNextWomen after a series she wrote about Female Internet Heroes at thenextweb.org , proved successful.

See her LinkedIn for more information about Simone.

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Linde Wolters

Linde is a journalist and blogger based in London.  She has a background in international law and journalism.  She worked as a reporter for an international free start-up title and a UK local paper before becoming involved with TheNextWomen. Besides editing and writing the magazine, she works as Community Manager of the Netherlands for MyHeritage, a social networking site where people can build their family trees. She writes for the award-winning blog Spotlighteffect.nl.

See her LinkedIn for more information about Linde.

NEXT WOMEN-CONTRIBUTORS

Marjolijn Kamphuis

Marjolijn Kamphuis

Marjolijn Kamphuis is as Internet savvy as a girl can be, and has thus far worked as a Digital Media specialist at Universal Music, Orange and MTV. Her special interests include crossmedia, branding, innovative entrepreneurship and trendspotting, and she recently founded the first Dutch Marketing, Tech & Gadget blog by women: Dutchcowgirls.nl

Tessa Sterkenburg

Tessa Sterkenburg

Tessa Sterkenburg knows who’s who in the Dutch new media world. Tessa worked in publishing and was involved in the organisation of TheNextWeb Conference before the launch of her speaker bureau TheNextSpeaker.

Marianne van Leeuwen

marianne van leeuwen

Marianne van Leeuwen

Marianne van Leeuwen is co-founder of Sisteract, a digital agency focusing on marketing to women. Marianne founded webshop www.welikefashion.com and price comparison website www.miepkniep.nl. She blogs about marketing to women at www.marketingtowomen.eu

Sarah Blow

Sarah Blow

Sarah Blow is a software engineer for a medical device manufacturer but is perhaps better known as the founder of the Girl Geek Dinners. She has been working in the IT industry, specializing in mobile and device technologies. Sarah has an active interest in web 2.0 and is a great advocate of using the right technologies to create the right solution to problems.

Josje van der Meer

josje van der meer

Josje van der Meer

Josje van der Meer is founder of Kodyo, a healthcare communications agency based in the Netherlands, dedicated to direct patient communication. Josje has been working in healthcare communication for over ten years. In 2008 she enrolled for the part time MBA program at Nyenrode business school. Her application was awarded with the Nyenrode Effective Leadership Scholarship.

Marianne Spier

marianne spier

Marianne Spier

Marianne Spier works as a manager at the Institute of Interactive Media in Amsterdam. She is a lecturer in cross media and responsible for developing international programs and partnerships with universities and companies abroad. Before that she worked for an advertising agency and as a communication consultant at the Ministry of Transport and KPN Mobile. Her interests are strong creative leadership and innovation of ALL media.

Justine Takx

Justine Takx

Justine Takx is an Independent Legal Services Professional with over 15 years of experience in law. Her expertise is in matters concerning intellectual property, IT contracts and e-commerce. After 10 years at Baker McKenzie, Justine now freelances in the legal departments of major companies.  She is currently working for Adidas.

Janneke Boer

Janneke Boer

Janneke Boer is the founder of Buro Wullenhoven, a marketing public relations agency that works exclusively for female entrepreneurs. The agency’s goal is to achieve more media prominence for female entrepreneurs, especially for their enterprise(s), products and services. Janneke began her career in Amnesty International’s press department in Sydney. After returning to the Netherlands, she worked for the editorial board of a cosmetics magazine, for the marketing communications department of a major financial organisation, as well as for several publishing companies.

Janetti Chon

janetti chon

Janetti Chon

Janetti Chon is Community and Content Manager at Web 2.0 Expo, a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing and business professionals who are building the next generation web. With a background in marketing and advertising, her achievements include revitalising a defunct not-for-profit pr agency based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

Michelle Pace

Michelle Pace

Michelle Pace

Someone forgot to tell Michelle Pace to find one thing and focus on it. Her primary aim in life is to have a lot of stories to tell to someone’s grandchildren and she is well on her way of succeeding. She grew up in South Africa,  started off working as a perl programmer in Perth, then moved into Agile consultancy in Sydney, developed in c-sharp in Bangalore, then found a passion for six sigma and lean engineering in Amsterdam. And now jumps like a bumble bee between flowers of technology. Her love is visualisation, explaining rocket science the way it should be explained; simply. Technology to her is not a means to an end but rather  a way of getting there. As long as she has her freedom, fun (and mac) - and ownes true to the fact that men are great to work with, to her life is one big adventure.

Tanya Alvarez

Tanya Alvarez

Tanya Alvarez

Tanya Alvarez is the founder of BlinkAds, an online performance based advertising agency and co-founder of Connectingmoms.com, an online social community for mothers. Some of Tanya’s side projects include providing advisory services to investors in the online marketing industry and start up companies. She is a contributing writer to DM Confidential. Tanya also has a seat on the board of directors for Audacitymagazine.com and the board of Herfuture.com. Tanya has been invited to speak on numerous panels regarding women and online media.

Ruth Oei

Ruth Oei

After graduating in Journalism and Broadcasting in 2005, Ruth Oei moved from Amsterdam to London. During her studies, she worked as an intern for cross-media platform Yourscene.nl, where she launched and edited online lifestyle portal Fashionscene.nl. She
later became a freelance journalist writing out of London for various online media. Since
2007, Ruth has been working as a proofreader for the Guardian.

Emma Persky

Emma Persky

Emma Persky

Emma Persky is a software engineer at Trampoline Systems building enterprise scale expertise search systems based on email processing and Organisational Network Analysis. She studied computing at Imperial College London where she completed her dissertation in Computer Vision Based Gesture Recognition Systems.  In her spare time she loves attending barcamps and takes an active role in the London geek community.

Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson

Zuzanna

Having spent nine years on the agency side, Zuzanna has been sucked into a vortex of the London start-up scene. Zuzanna’s Head of Marketing Communications (or Fluff) at Huddle.net, the unified collaboration platform with a social networking twist. In her spare time, she organises an over-cocktails meet-up for women in tech: Silicon Stilettos. Zuzanna’s passion for ‘riding horses and roping cattle’ is yet to result in her own start-up for people equally obsessed with the equine.

Petra Kroon

Petra Kroon

Petra Kroon is a social entrepreneur. In 2006 she founded GoedfGeefs, an organisation that helps social entrepreneurs achieve social change. Goedgeefs matches social entrepreneurs with companies and encourages partnerships of which both partners, companies and entrepreneurs will benefit. As a journalist, which she has been for over 20 years, Petra also wants to give social entrepreneurs a voice. Thus, she will be writing about these entrepreneurs all over the world at TheNextWomen. Petra Kroon is also member of the board of CSR Chicks, a network of women who are closely interested in or closely in Corporate Social Responsibility.

Ciara Byrne

Ciara Byrne

Ciara Byrne

Ciara Byrne is a software engineer and aspiring CEO based in Amsterdam. She has worked on all aspects of digital media software including defining worldwide technical standards for mobile TV, contributing to digital media strategy, defining and creating new software products and helping to sell them. She is also an organiser of the GBDN business networking events in Amsterdam.

WE WANT YOU:

We want to have eyes (almost) everywhere, thanks to our Next Women Contributors all over the world. They tip us about female internet heroes and what’s happening in their country. Check the map on this page to see where they’re based. Would you like to join the team? Drop us a line!