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Long Island Business News - view original article
Aug. 20 - Aug. 26, 2004
Vol. 51 No. 35

Titanya Hughes President
T.A.G. Marketing International Inc

Titanya Hughes is a powerhouse. She founded and ran two international companies before the age of 26, Miracle Leather fashions in Florence, Italy and T.A.G. Marketing International Inc., with offices in New York and Sorrento, Italy. Now, at the age of 30, she has a vision to develop markets in South America and Asia.

T.A.G. Marketing International is a full-service management and marketing consulting firm specializing in helping individuals, teams and organizations achieve unprecedented levels of performance by leveraging and maximizing individual, group and organizational potential. Hughes has helped clients address the needs of their markets, craft strategies to penetrate a broader market, assess risks, exploit opportunities and build partnerships and includes companies like Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri and Sorrento Lingue in Italy; InterLatina, Dimensions in Travel, JPMorganChase and the World Wide Classroom and National Registration Center for Study Abroad in Milwaukee, Wisc. She has also worked with Hofstra University to develop programs such as European Odyssey and Beyond the Borders to Mexico.

Hughes received the Key Women of America achievement award in 1997, is listed in the 1999 edition of Who's Who in Business and received recognition from Hofstra University in 2002 as a Distinguished Alum for international achievements. She is a mentor to more than 16 high school and college women and coaches young women on professional achievement as well as academic excellence. She is the founder of the Michael Anthony Hughes Memorial Scholarship fund, giving third and fourth graders at Maurice W. Downing School a chance to attend Hofstra University Summer Reading Camp each summer.

She lectures at universities on Long Island about the importance of going abroad and speaks at civic organizations and churches. Hughes is currently in the process of writing a book on achieving international excellence, the proceeds of which will benefit young men and women who want to study abroad.