Shobha Rampersad has over 20 years combined of experience in the areas of shipping and logistics, HSE (Health, Safety and Environmental), executive administration, events management, events design, and client relations. She is currently the Managing Director at her company, a Mercury Girl Design, and is a strong believer in community support, with emphasis on mentorship and networking.  She is also a Procurement and Shipping Administrative Assistant for Nu-Iron Unlimited (a subsidiary of Nucor, the largest steel producer and biggest recycler of scrap in the US).

Having interacted with professionals around the world, Shobha can attest to the magnanimous contributions that women in the corporate/business world have made throughout the years.  There is an ever compelling desire to continually improve and as such she firmly believes that coming from a geographically smaller country, her strengths reside in that belief that no matter one’s size, it’s the mission, values and passion that truly determine one’s purpose in life.

She credits her success to hard work, perseverance and passion, and is looking forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Shobha Rampersad, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.

Claudia Garcia has over 20 years of experience in technology and business. As a systems engineer with a master’s degree in marketing, she has 10 years of experience working in telecommunications, and 20 years of experience in technology Business.

Claudia is a system engineer with a Masters in Marketing specialized in Digital Transformation Strategy. She offers 10 years working for the main local Telecommunication Company (Codetel), then Verizon, in marketing as product development and project manager. She eventually had the responsibility of the CPE product portfolio leading the team that manages the relationship with the device manufacturers (Nortel, Cisco). During this time she learned some good values from different cultures that enriched her life- leadership, being people oriented and conflict management.

Based on this, she decided to focus on a sales perspective, and moved to a Puerto Rican partner as Business development manager, penetrating Enterprise market with IP Telephony solutions (Cisco, Microsoft, Polycom, Fortinet, CA Technologies) and services for 5 years. She discovered her passion for service excellence and consulting.

She was offered the opportunity to start working at Microsoft, and has5 years starting as SMB Lead for DR, then as SAM&C Lead for Caribbean. This role gave her the vision to work cross segment and cross region, while based on the local office in Dominican Republic. Now as Cloud Specialist for Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico pursue to help customers towards their Digital Transformation journey transforming the way their employees work and serve better their customers.

She is passionate about service, excellence and consulting, and loves to inspire women to be the essence they want to be. She looks forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Claudia Garcia, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Delphine Rochereau helps individuals and entrepreneurs choose and live a meaningful, courageous and intentional life.

She assists company owners and project managers build empowering environments for themselves, their employees and colleagues.

Born in France and raised between France and Brazil, Delphine studied in England and worked in Italy, Brazil, Bolivia.

As a former Naval Architect and sailor, Delphine knows that freedom, knowledge and awareness are closely interlinked. “Freedom and happiness through awareness,” could be her moto.

In 2007, she arrived in Bolivia to be the first woman to manage an adventure traveling agency called Terra Andina Bolivia. When she deliberately broke the local rules by inviting the women from the Andean Cordillera to her office to receive the family payments, she realized how a few words can be enough to empower people and create life-changing mindset-shifts.

Today, Delphine is a professional certified coach working with emotional intelligence to regulate stress, prevent burn-out, decrease turn-over, create innovation-friendly environments, set the keys to your leadership.

Through her personal brand Be Brave & Break Free and The Centre de Gestion du Stress, a French integrative network specialized in stress regulation and health prevention, she aims to create a sweeter world, one connection at the time.

Even though her websites are in French, do not hesitate to connect with her in English, she will love to interact with you.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Delphine Rochereau, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

Marlies White is President, CEO and Founder of SomaLife, a supplements company that enables people to take control of their health and wellness. Coming from a background in banking, she co-founded the firm with her husband, who was a medical doctor.

SomaLife provides scientifically based supplements that deliver optimal nutrition. The natural amino acids present in SomaLife encourage the production of additional healing, repair, and growth factors that jump-start your body’s natural processes of cell repair and regeneration.

Marlies retired from banking after 25 years and cofounded SomaLife in 1998 with her husband, who was a medical doctor. He created all the supplements, and they started the company in the basement of their home.  Her husband passed away in 2015, but Marlies is keeping the company alive, as helping others with their health options has always been her passion.

She continues to be passionate about her work and credits her success to dedication and perseverance. She looks forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.

Marlies recently launched her Amazon #1 Best Seller, “Because He Could” and was also recently nominated as one of 100 Top visionaries in health care, to be conferred at IFAH, USA.

Women’s Networking Association Member, Marlies White, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.