It is time to introduce the Myngle team.
So I start with me: Marina.
I’m the founder of this Myngle dream, step by step coming to life. And I’m proud of the great team that came to believe in the same dream.
You’ll meet them all.

What do I like?
Well… a picture says more than 1.000 words…

What is the best memory of my past?

Well… many things, I wouldn’t throw away any of my past experiences to date.
But probably one that comes immediately to my mind, as enriching, fun (and tiring) was the one year backpacking through Asia. That is how I celebrated the Millennium change.

You know that feeling of enjoying a long holiday, the longest ever? Then, while the weeks passed by and many miles were left behind, the feeling gradually changed into a strange childish conflict with my backpack, when I suddenly realized it had become my ‘home sweet home’, the only one I will have for the next many months to come.

Then that also passed, and finally the realization: home is not in a building, nor in a backpack, but it is inside; wherever you are. And the childish war with an inanimate object changed into an overwhelming feeling of freedom and happiness. Free to explore new Countries, to meet new people, new cultures, attempting a few words of new languages that make you feel proud, and your host, special.

I love languages!
You can only put your passion in what you truly believe, and like.
Like with Myngle.

I moved from Italy to Holland little after my graduation, proud to carry with me a pretty good level of English and French, only to find out that in Holland I was nothing really special, I’d better add a few more languages if I wanted to fit in. So, there came Dutch, pretty difficult at the start. After that, an easier one- at least for me- Spanish.
And you know what: they all sound the same! All with that funny (or nice) Italian musicality, as my friends say.
Last year I took the challenge with my first attempt ever… with Mandarin.
Still a (very) long way to go.

So, where did all this start?

My background is various, but always I tried to maintain a healthy balance between mind and heart, working with my mind, making choices with my heart.

I started (long ago) with Procter & Gamble, a young marketer enthusiastic and avid to learn, like a cookbook where, if you put all ingredients together, you know what cake will come out of the oven. Then I moved to Holland, for personal reasons I admit, tried some technology with Philips, then an MBA in France. Then came Sara Lee, a step aside in strategy consulting with The Boston Consulting Group, taking the famous helicopter that brings you high and leaves a view where most details are relative and only the big picture counts. Like in life.

With the approaching of the Millennium I thought it was time for a drastic change. Step out of the helicopter, of the company car, of the loft in the centre of Amsterdam to get my loved & hated backpack and leave for the world.

On my way back from the world I fell in love with the Internet, which brings the world together. A new medium of infinite new opportunities, the possibility to shift paradigms, change industries, give everybody a chance; whether it is a small team of young entrepreneurs able to become a multi billion dollars business, or an individual in a remote corner of the world that finally is not isolated anymore, but belongs to the world.

Internet bridges physical distances, covers differences, offers individuals a new place to shine. eBay taught me that.

And from my most recent eBay experience, the step was not so long anymore: Myngle was born to bring the most idealistic of internet to life:
“Promote better understanding of languages and culture, which supports acceptance of diversity.”

I’m proud of being a Myngler!

Marina is part of Myngle staff.

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