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Mentoring in entrepreneurship: Meet entrepreneurs from our mentor community

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Femme Palette
Published on
December 29, 2023

Would you like to start or grow your business by working with a mentor? Our Entrepreneurship mentors help their mentees by providing the support they need in building their businesses.

With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you some entrepreneurs in our mentor community.

Tyson Niemeyer

CEO

Gett UK

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tyson is an executive leader holding senior roles at 4 global companies in the Forbes/FTSE 100 rankings and leading the growth and turnaround of a London based start-up to scale-up from double digit $M/year loss to double digit $M/year EBIDTA profitability. He has a genuine passion for people development and having been based in both the US and UK while leading teams in over 27 countries gives me unique insights into the challenges businesses and employees are facing globally. 

Šárka Pelikánová

CEO

CEG

Prague, Czechia

Šárka established her own company CEG at age of 22. After running CEG for 11 years, they have become one of the most innovative and known company in their field in the Czech Republic (accounting and taxes consulting). She has a lot to share about her experience in business development, HR, and running your own company. She would love to help somebody else kick off their business. 

Daria Somova

Managing Director

Move to Prague - Relocation Services

Prague, Czechia

Daria started her own business at the age of 19 in a foreign country. Despite having no initial connections, capital, or investment, her company has grown to be a young, successful, and stable company with a great future. She can offer her insights on how challenging it can be to start a business alone from the beginning with no experience, how to grow professionally and personally, and how to achieve your goals without losing the human in you. 

Radana Šimáková

CEO & Co-founder

Wellspace

Czechia

Radana believes that all her past experiences leads her to her future mission, which she proactively creates everyday. She also believes that a dynamic start-up environment, creativity, business innovation and new technologies are an inseparable part of her DNA. She strongly believes that finding your own passion in life creates unbelievable things. 

Klara Losert

Co-founder

Talkbase

Prague, Czechia

After leading Community, People Ops, and Customer Success teams in multiple US-based startups, Klára co-founded Talkbase with a single mission - to empower teams to build world-changing communities. Talkbase is a community operations platform specially designed to help automate the process of launching and scaling community programs.

Adrienne Jung

CEO & Co-Founder

eeva

Quebec, Canada

Adrienne Jung is the CEO of eeva. With over 12 years of experience in leadership roles, she’s guided national and international organizations through startup and high growth cycles, restructures and significant change. Her innovative strategies have ushered organizations into the digital age, accelerated processes, saved millions of dollars and strengthened regulatory compliance. She holds an MBA from McGill University and multiple certifications in human resources, governance and strategic leadership. 

Lucie Vallée

Co-Founder

Leads Studio

Paris, France

Lucie is currently the founder and CEO of her own marketing agency. She shares that getting there wasn’t a straight path or an easy wone. She believes that, as women, its hard to reach our full potential due to internal biases and difficulties in navigating the corporate world. As a mentor, she would be happy to draft a clear plan ahead for her mentees and give them key actions to get them where they want to be. 

Virginie Bapaume

CEO & Founder

23Beauty Paris & Ivy Agency & Beauté Plurielle

Paris, France

Virginie is a Digital Communications Executive with 10+ years of experience crafting strategic

communications for the Beauty industry (Founder of Ivy Agency). She founded Beauté Plurielle in 2018- an association dedicated to addressing the need for greater diversity and inclusivity in the Beauty industry. Our organization is helping to reshape the beauty industry’s inclusion practices, in France, through thought-leadership, consultative services, and industry events. 

Monique Elwell

President, COO & Co-Founder

Storyvine

Colorado, United States

Monique is a truth-speaker, a promise-keeper and a transformation-navigator. Her career started in the mid-90s moments before the dot.com boom and has spanned finance and marketing & branding. She doesn’t believe in “shiny objects”. Technology must be useful and have appropriate consumer adaption. She is fascinated by how digital technology is changing the cultural landscape, whole industries and businesses.

Jana Rachno

Mother of 

Seniorem s radostí

Prague, Czechia

Aside from being the Mother of Seniorem s radostí, Jana is also a Partner at Vivido and the CMO at Vivido.fit. She is also the Winner of SIA 2019, WSC 2022 and Nakopni Prahu 2020. Currently, she is working remotely with her baby on her lap. She specializes in health, longevity and NGO management.

Blake Wittman

European Business Director/Co-Owner

GoodCall/Datacruit/Recruitment Academy

Prague, Czechia

Blake Wittman has spent more than 25 years outside his home country of the United States. He has seen the inside of massive Fortune100 global giants as well as 5-person startups, and enjoyed both. He has a 20-year career highlighted by a passion for people and purpose. Blake is now Director of Europe, and shareholder, of GoodGroup, which comprises GoodCall, Recruitment Academy, and Datacruit. All three companies have a common goal of waking up the recruitment industry and evolving the human relations market.

Alexander Palffy

Co-Founder & CEO

byways

Berlin, Germany

Alex has worked in warehouses since high school and today has several years of experience in logistics. Alex was scaling product organizations like foodora (acquired by Delivery Hero), InstaFreight, and most recently he was one of the first employees and a Head of Product at sennder, a unicorn from Berlin shipping products used by over 10,000 trucks and warehouses. Alex is currently an MD and Co-Founder of byways. Where together with his co-founder, Simon, a machine learning expert (Ph.D.) and a tech enthusiast, are optimizing logistics around the pickup and drop-off sites with AI. 

Are you looking for ways to build or grow your business? Check out our Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program and get matched with your personal mentor from Femme Palette’s global community of professionals.

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