Top 3 Businesswomen Leading the Charge of Successful Business in 2021
The increasing presence of female as business woman has led to the change in the demographic characteristics of business and economic growth of the country. Women-owned businesses company are playing a prominent role in society inspiring others and generating more employment opportunities in the country.
Rhonda Vetere
Premier global nutrition company Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE:HLF), announced Rhonda has joined the Corporation as executive vice president and chief information officer, with global responsibility including information technology strategy.
She is one such a passionate woman leader who believes in giving back in and out of the office. Servant leadership is in her heart and she enjoys investing on people’s career and seeing them grow. Vetere is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Herbalife Nutrition.
Most recently, Vetere was chief information officer at Santander Bank, where she helped transform their mobile, retail and online banking applications and infrastructure. Before that, Vetere spent five years as the chief technology officer for Estee Lauder Companies, leading global infrastructure, applications, operations, service delivery, security, architecture and IT strategy.
Kim Vogel
Kim Vogel is the Board Director at TriCounties Bancshares and former President and Co-Founder of BaseVenture. Kim shares how the unexpected lead her on the most fulfilling career trajectory and to building several game-changing technology companies.
Kim begin her first job as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) at KPMG. Shortly thereafter, Kim earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School, which then lead to securing a position as Vice President of Montgomery Securities. Her venture into entrepreneurship and innovation; started in the late 90s, as CFO of Semaphore Partners. At the time, it was one of the first digital marketing agencies around.
Kim was one of the original members of the executive team that established the company into a global powerhouse, attaining clients like General Motors, Orbitz, and more. Once Semaphore Partners was sold to a marketing conglomerate, Kim took a position of teaching finance and business at St. Mary’s College of California in their graduate and undergraduate programs. When of one of her colleagues was looking to “bring the band back together” as they say, Kim became one of the initial executives at a pioneering mobile banking and payments technology company called mFoundry. It was the first corporate to submit a mobile banking app to the Apple App Store and one of the earliest to introduce the ability to deposit a check via a smartphone.
Marina Tognetti
In this century of challenging technologic evolution, the crucial traits of a business woman are similar to that of an innovative entrepreneur. She must have a strong vision, to set the direction and anticipate and navigate challenges, but at the same time be flexible and able to adapt. She must not be afraid of taking (calculated) risks, in order to anticipate trends and steer the company in turbulent waters, building an organization that is agile to respond to this fast-paced environment. Marina Tognetti is one such leading tech entrepreneur woman, Founder of myngle.com, but the passion for entrepreneurship came later on in her career.
Before she founded mYngle, Marina had 18 years of professional experience in consumer goods marketing and business development by Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee, and strategy consulting by the Boston Consulting Group and e-commerce/technology by eBay.
Marina is also a recipient of several awards and recognitions. Marina has been named among 20 Successful Shepreneurs to watch, Exceptional Women of Excellence and 20 Successful Businesswomen to look for (2018); 20 Impeccable Women in Business, 30 most inspiring women in business, 50 most inspiring women in tech Netherlands and Iconic Women Creating a Better World for All (2017); 50 most inspiring women in Dutch technology sector (2016); 50 most inspiring women tech leaders in Europe (2015); GIT Girl in Tech of the month (2016); Top 100 women in tech in Europe (2012); The Next Women (2010) and many others.
Marina’s consistency as an achiever is remarkable. What else is remarkable is her regular presence at international conferences on women leadership and entrepreneurship which includes WEF, global win conference and others which reflects her strong stance and sentiment for the fellow aspiring women.
