Board of Directors
EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam is led by a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of highly professional entrepreneurial women, who are dedicated to steering the network and encouraging personal inspiration and professional development and achievement for women.
President
Caroline van Leuven
Caroline lives near Utrecht, The Netherlands, Europe. She is a certified trainer and executive coach. She provides strategic video analysis to further her client’s personal development. Her roots once in information management (she started her career as a librarian and information specialist at Deloitte in Amsterdam), she pursued also event organization, interim management, and worked as a professional trainer. Since 2006 she runs her latest enterprise, NVL Company BV. Her consultancy firm targets improving the performance of professionals and organizations based on people’s professional attitude. Beyond emotional experience and performance, she aims to make the intrinsic qualities of employees in organizations self-evident by administering strategic video analysis. Awareness of one’s visual impression and the effect on inter-relations that physical presentation has within the work environment, can substantially improve professional perception and image. Caroline enjoys inspiring people to help them grow in their personality and career. She previously served as VP Membership.
Treasurer
Mar was born and raised in Spain, where she graduated in Law and an MBA (IE, Madrid). Her interest in other cultures and languages took her to Brussels, where she spent some time at the European Commission and worked in EU Public Affairs. Later on she worked in economic development projects at ACE International Consultants in Madrid and Ecorys (former Netherlands Economic Institute) in Rotterdam. Her experience with development banks brought her to ING Commercial Banking, where she first managed advisory projects for financial institutions in emerging economics and later on became Account Manager in Trade and Commodity Finance. After enjoying active membership at EPWN during 5 years she is now very enthusiastic about her new role as Treasurer.
Board Secretary
Kyrin Hall
Kyrin is a health consultant, PhD, based in the Netherlands. She established her own clinic in Amsterdam Zuid few months ago . Her professional goal is to achieve optimal health of her client through different diagnostic tools.
She is an independent consultant with a small team, she’s accurate in recording of client protocols; daily scheduling; accountability to team members / clients; as well I act as the custodian of records (lab reports / confidential client files). This work parallels the duties of a board secretary. Moreover, Kyrin is part of our mentoring programme, which is of great value for her and she would like give back to the network by volunteering for the role of secretary.
Kyrin is also looking forward to foster an expat family / meaningful relationships with the club members and fellow board members.
VP Programming
Pamela Koo
Pamela was born and raised in New York City, USA and has been living in the Netherlands for a little over a year. She is currently working as Media Manager at a fashion brand. Her previous experience includes agency experience in Amsterdam and in the US working at NBC Universal as Midwest Sales Director, Ambient Planet as an Account Manager, and Smith Barney/Citigroup in Wealth Management. She has extensive experience in Communications, Business Development, and Event Planning.
VP Social Events
Marianne Eisma
Marianne is as an attorney at Mlegal (own company) and interim senior employment counsel at Baker & McKenzie. She has more than 20 years of experience at the highest levels within the legal profession. As senior in house counsel for IBM (until 2009) Marianne was active within global teams for major, international M&A transactions. When Marianne attended for the first time a EPWN meeting at IBM (02/2009) she was impressed by the Susan Goldsworthy (speaker) and inspired by the positive attitude o f the members that she became a member of EPWN. In her application Marianne mentions that she’s cultural oriented, has a creative mind and loves to organize events and workshops.
VP Marketing
Jennifer Tucker
Jennifer is originally from Australia, although she has spent more than 20 years in the Netherlands. Her academic credentials extend: MBA in global business and sustainability from RSM-Erasmus, University of China in Hong Kong, Kenan Flager –Business School Chapel Hill USA, EGADA University Monterey Mexico and FGV Sao Paulo Brazil, Executive Development at Management Centre Europe (Brussels) and International Management Training (London). Jennifer’s professional background has been in the film and television, cable & telecoms industry, starting in Australia, then globally when she moved to The Netherlands. Jennifer has held positions from director to managing director for companies such as: Universal Pictures, UPC/chellomedia and Eircom Telecommunications, where she over saw the marketing, operations, distribution and strategy.
Acting VP Membership
Jacinta Noonan
With a passion for helping women to achieve their true potential, Jacinta Noonan’s long and successful career as an executive coach and trainer is more a divine calling than a job choice. Jacinta’s “calling” has seen her travel the globe for more than twenty years, offering coaching and training to some of the world’s largest companies as well as some of its most wonderful individuals.
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Jacinta has lived in the USA, the UK, Singapore and Netherlands. She has degrees in
Training, Psychology and is a certified coach. After 15 years in the corporate world, in roles as diverse as logistics
manager, Head of English, International Project Manager, Jacinta now runs her own company focussing on her passion as coach and trainer.
Jacinta is result driven and is eager to make a tangible contribution in her role as VP Membership.
