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Corney Vanhelden - Biography
Corney Vanhelden has been an entrepreneur his entire working life.
As a youth, he was a waiter and a newspaper boy.
Then he started a successful career in the Merchant Marine as a Deck Officer, rising to the position of Chief Officer when he left.
He sailed the Seven Seas, and you name any country and he has probably been there. After his sailing career, Corney’s entrepreneurial blood started to boil and when he saw an opportunity, he ventured into some successful businesses in real estate and insurance.
He made his real income in the software development industry, and was CEO of a software company in the Netherlands.
When he was “free” again, he followed his latest dream and founded the company Cornet Solutions UAB, an Internet company with several publications as ezines and books, as well as auto-responders and a search engine optimization consultancy.
WriterOnline.us was acquired in September 2004 and that has been turned around. A spin off is the Learning Centre with 27 courses for writers. This blog is a prelude to a membership site on Business Writing.
In his leisure time Corney is a Hot Air Balloonist and a well-known Competition Director for Hot Air Balloon Championships.
About the Author
Mary Anne has been teaching at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY in both graduate and undergraduate programs for the past ten years, with a specialty in business, technical and professional communications. In addition, she is the Chief Editor of Writer Online, a professional ezine for writers and lovers of writing.
She has also taught writing and communications courses at Medaille College, and is currently engaged as an adjunct professor in Business Communications at the State University of New York at Brockport.
Mary Anne has over twenty years experience in corporate and business communications including technical writing, instructional design, marketing communications and internet instructional design, serving in both corporate staff functions as well as an independent contractor and consultant for national firms including Kodak, Xerox, Metropolitan Life, Motorola, and others.
As a writer and author, Mary Anne has also published numerous articles in publications including Workforce magazine, Rochester Business Journal, Building Operating Management, Equus, Equine Journal, and Writer’s Digest. She has written two books:Zen and the Art of Horseback Riding, and coauthored Retraining the Harness Racehorse. Mary Anne has a master’s degree in liberal studies with a concentration in digital literacy from Empire State College.