Monica is the founder and CEO of Netmedia, a Mexican independent publishing company specialized in business technology.
Monica has a college degree in Communication by the Universidad Iberoamericana. In 1982 she joined EXPANSION magazine as an editor, the top business publication in the country. She became Executive editor in1986 through 1988. But since 1983 she started covering the IT industry and was in charge of the quarterly Special Reports even after she left, as a free-lance writer until 2000.

In 1990 she became Executive Editor of PERSONAL COMPUTING MEXICO, a monthly magazine published by Consorcio Sayrols. With Sayrols, Monica participated in the creation and launch of PC Semanal (1992), Net@ (1996), LINK (1996), and Computer

Reseller News Mexico (1996), the former under CMP´s Media LLC license.

In 1994, Monica had become Publisher of the Computing Division of Consorcio Sayrols, where she worked until 1999.

From 2004 to 2006 she produced and hosted the weekly TV program InnovationWeek,at Channel 52, in collaboration with MVS.
Monica has two kids, Pia and Emilio, and three from her second husband: German, Natalia and Miranda.

My own “Proust questionnaire”

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Laughing with my kids and husband
What is your greatest fear?
Having to depend on others
Which living person do you most admire?
My mother
Which talent would you most like to have?
Being able to sing
Which living person do you most despise?
Dumb and unrespectful people
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My need for company
What is your favorite occupation?
Reading (while learning how to improve my writing)
What do you most value in your friends?
A sense of humor
Who are your favorite writers?

Gabriel Gacría Márquez, Xavier Velasco, Milan Kundera
What is your most treasured possession?
My grandmother’s (Yaya) old Singer sewing machine

My yaya's sewing machibe, my most treasured possession

My yaya's sewing machibe, my most treasured possession

What is your most marked characteristic?
I am very opinionated
Who are your heroes in real life?
Benito Juárez, Bono
What is that you most dislike?
Bad taste
How would you like to die?
I don’t have plans to die
What is your motto?
“Expensive, even if it’s not worth it”

About Netmedia
Founded in 1999, Netmedia, S.A. de C.V. is a 100% Mexican publishing company specialized in business technology. Netmedia publishes two b-to-b titles: InformationWeek Mexico –under license from CMP Media LLC–; and b:Secure.

On the consumer side, it publishes Wish, on the Digital lifestyle.

Netmedia has five business units: Events, Research, On line, Publishing,and Custom Media.
www.netmedia.info

Netmedia serves the top IT global companies, including AT&T, Avaya, EMC, Ernst & Young, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Telmex.

Mónicami | Aug.23.2007 | | 17 Comments »