Marianne is a renowned leader in advertising, marketing, business coaching, RFPs and business development for over 25 years, averaging over $100 million in new billing growth in less than 2 years for two different national advertising agencies, DDB Worldwide and Quigley-Simpson.
Marianne held EVP, SVP, COO level positions at network and independent national advertising agencies. Her award winning, successful advertising campaigns gained her acceptance to The Television Academy and she enjoys attending The Emmy’s. Marianne has both sell side and buy side experience as a Senior Partner at External View Consulting where she ran RFP reviews for Fortune 500 companies.
Currently, Marianne is CEO of VEO Group, working for Fortune 500 companies, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and WBENC Business Owners helping them grow their brand and their business. She is the author of WBENC 5 Secrets to Meeting Success, a Platinum Supplier Program Developer & Trainer as well as a past mentor Ambassador. VEO Group is a Certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBENC).
To advocate for small diversity business owners, Marianne started CEO Success Community, a division of VEO Group, to grow companies from under $1million to $20million+Value in a membership based model. With 95.8% of small diversity firms not breaking the $1 million-dollar mark, there is a tremendous need to provide coaching to help these firms reach the next level. Marianne is using her proven experience as a current business coach at SCE EDGE Program to help rising suppliers.
CEO Success Community offers two products: Sales Accelerator and Entrepreneurial Flight to $20million+ Value (vetted by Harvard, WPO-Women’s President Organization and co-creating with vNacelle) on our new tech innovation "The Everything Platform”.
Marianne is a graduate of UCLA Anderson MDE program and Startup School 2018-Silicon Valley run by Y Combinator (the Harvard of Startups) who has invested in Dropbox, Airbnb, Reddit, DoorDash, Weebly and more with a combined valuation of companies over $80B.
Proud to be the CEO Emeritus on UCLA Alpha Chi Housing Corporation, Member of Santa Clara Women100 Foundation, Saratoga Foothill Club, past Executive Board Member of YWCA GLA. A two-time graduate of UCLA, UCLA Anderson and UCLA BA.
Janet Lienhard
Technology Coach
Janet Lienhard has been a computer trainer since 1984 and has owned her own training, consulting and programming company since 1988 (Lienhard Consulting Group). She specializes in Microsoft and Adobe programs and is known for her easy to understand approach to computer training.
In 2012, Janet started the online training company - Virtual Instructor (www.virtualinstructor.com) at the request of the Director of Staff Education and Development at the University of California, San Diego.
Janet is also a Visual Basic programmer and has developed numerous Access databases for clients including the military, private business and universities. She also has an extensive background developing applications using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for Word and Excel. Janet also has extensive website programming experience in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML and CSS.
In addition to training, Janet has over 30 years of experience developing computer training courses and training manuals. In 1986, Janet was hired by the San Diego office of Price Waterhouse to computerize the office and train the administrative staff and accountants on how to use computers and software programs such as Lotus 123. She was one of the first 10 Word Perfect Certified Trainers in the country and has been a member of Microsoft’s MSDN and Action Partner program since the late 1998.
Janet is an expert in the following programs:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Word
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Google G-Suite: Docs
Google G-Suite: Sheets
Google G-Suite: Slides
HTML/CSS
Javascript / JQuery
PHP