Magali writes :  “Thank you so much for all your congratulations. I am awed to be part of such a wonderful organization and would like to thank you all at EuropeanPWN!  Special thanks go to Jennifer Varino who has been giving me her unconditional support since July 2009 and to Marijo Bos who has brilliantly negotiated this great scholarship!”

On behalf of the Amsterdam City Network, we once again congratulate Magali and we wish her all the best in completing the International Executive MBA June 2010 program, English track.

The IE-EuropeanPWN Scholarship Program

According to Margarita Alonso and Celia de Anca, professors and leaders at IE:  “We want to obtain from this partnership, open dialogue with top-level women professionals who want to make a career breakthrough by using top-level business education as a key component of their career progression strategy. This program is a way for us to do this and help them financially. A key factor for choosing to partner with EuropeanPWN in the EU to attract Masters degree candidates is that we believe EuropeanPWN’s leadership has what it takes to maintain and continue to grow a professional and credible organization. We look forward to developing a long term partnership, which benefits both organizations.”

It is because of the notable growth of the network over the past few years to a community of 17 strong networks made up of outstanding professional women that we are the recipients of this generous scholarship program. We want to thank you for making this possible and encourage you to apply and participate in this process.

Please contact any of the Amsterdam Board Members for further details.

The assembly elected Marijo Bos and Rieke Smakman as Presidents along with Susanne Forsman-Hey, as Treasurer of the Federation and Sandrine Joseph as, Secretary General. Marijo, Rieke and Susanne served as Presidents of Madrid, Amsterdam and Nice respectively. Furthermore, Monica Pesce will continue in a Federation leadership role as a VP now focusing on Women on Boards, Karine Heckmann as VP New Networks and Ana Baranda and Malika Mir sharing the VP Technology role. Strategic Partnerships will be led by Marijo Bos and Marketing, Public Relations and other appointed leaders will be announced shortly.

The leaders of the networks reinforced EuropeanPWN’s values of win-win, generosity, and a focus on excellence and co creation of initiatives across networks. “One of our continuing priorities is to broaden and strengthen our strategic partnerships offering visibility on key initiatives at the European level while ensuring there is a strong local presence and connection with members across the local networks,” said Marijo Bos.

Rieke Smakman added, “It’s also a key priority for us to create even more opportunities through connecting, knowledge exchange and support across our networks since this is one of the great benefits of being part of a network across borders.” They both added, “it is a privilege to continue supporting the progress of women in business given the strong foundation that the outgoing board and the champions of this network have created.”

The new EuropeanPWN Board is pleased to serve as a facilitator of the exchange ideas and experts across networks, ensuring inclusion of ideas and support from local networks on the federation’s overall strategy and key priorities linked to this strategy. There will be a continued focus on achieving a high level of excellence for all of our stakeholders.

The outgoing board was responsible for achieving impressive expansion of the network and programs, now consisting of 3500 members across 17 city networks. Please follow this link to learn more about the numerous accomplishments under the former leadership and their outgoing message of support as we make this transition. Thank you to Mirella Visser, President since 2007, Marie-Claude Peyrache, Secretary-General (VP Corporate Affairs from 2007 – 2009), Brigitte Pichat-Sese, Treasurer (since January 2007), Therese Torris, VP Website Strategy (also VP Mentoring from 2007-2009), Annalisa Gigante, VP Women on Boards (since June 2007), Marijo Bos, VP Corporate Affairs (since June 2009), Monica Pesce, VP New Networks (since June 2009).