The two women remained friends and today Witsken is Onex's top salesperson. During her time away from the work world, Huffine Breen gave serious thought to the idea of creating a new business. She and her brother had talked about starting their own company since they had worked together at Software Synergy. Throughout her career, her feminine characteristics have been her greatest assets. When she meets with a client to find out what his company's e-information needs are, she uses her listening skills and ability in relationship dynamics to pair his company with the right strategies, applications and people.
Success comes from knowing how to use it.
I consider it a gift. She's been married 16 years to husband Mike, whose support she couldn't have done without when starting Onex, she says. When Huffine Breen entered the work world during the mid-1970s, personal computers didn't exist in the mainstream. But today, e-business has improved the balance of women's lives. Huffine Breen received a serious wake-up call when she moved from the entertainment field, which was an even mixture of men and women, to the online services industry, where she rarely encountered female colleagues.