Michelle E. Messina is a market entry strategist and CEO of the global direction and strategy consulting firm, Explora International LLC. The company provides revenue-focused consulting services to IT companies expanding globally. During the last 8 years, she has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs throughout the world, optimizing their expansion success and traction in new markets and helping them to overcome cross-cultural obstacles that can occur in the sales and marketing process. Clients include small and medium-sized companies, international governments on economic development and job creation programs, and US federal government foreign aid programs (USAID). Michelle is also part of the U.S. Department of State program Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas for Women Entrepreneurs focused on economic empowerment and public-private partnerships.

Michelle has a strong revenue-focused operational background as a VP Sales, VP Marketing, Business Development Director, and Business Unit General Manager in public and private IT companies. She is based in Silicon Valley, California, and has been consulting for 8 years. Michelle is a published photographer and author, bilingual in English and Spanish (USG Level 5).