Maria Ingold

“I hired Maria as a "sales CTO" at Synamedia shortly after being nominated to run sales & marketing globally. Maria played a pivotal role in designing, building, and evolving our global Solution Engineering team, including our Bids & Proposals capability. She pivoted our organization to a domain expertise-centered organization where she developed an on-boarding and certification capability and created forums with product units to synthesize and provide feedback to enhance our product-market fit and go-to-market positioning as thought leaders. Maria fostered an open and collaborative culture, fueling learning, ideation, and innovation among team members and across the organization. Her training programs and global knowledge sharing initiatives reduced on-boarding time and ensured a scalable ability to apply subject matter expertise as required to support and strategically position Synamedia's technology. As a customer-focused CTO, Maria facilitated cross-functional feedback loops between customers, product teams, sales, marketing, and customer success. Her global speaking engagements on security and advertising helped position Synamedia and she used her skills to mentor her team to develop new opportunities through thought leadership. Maria did a great job of bringing structure and discipline in the way we scaled our domain expertise and played a pivotal role in bringing onboard new talent. I would recommend Maria for any organization requiring a step-up in scaling and organizing its solutions engineering/pre-sales capabilities.”

“I had the pleasure of directly reporting to Maria at Synamedia. I noticed her respected work ethic as a leader. Her background in the movie business — thanks to her expertise as a streaming media CTO, BAFTA juror, and even as an actress — has given her a practical understanding of the audio-visual industry and its dynamics. She is strongly interested in understanding new technologies, including their environmental impact, and takes the time to learn and explore new things. She is known for being a public presenter and experienced speaker with a TED-like notoriety, which makes her an appreciated communicator, both in-person and online since Maria also masters social media. Maria strives to share information and knowledge within her team and towards her team. With her transparent and inquisitive mindset, she always tries to help those around her. She also mentors her team to interact and position the company as thought leaders, whether through public speaking or social network,networking. She has the ability to appraise people by competence and give them trust once the contact is well-established. She takes the time to get to know her team members and build strong relationships, which allows her to foster a collaborative work environment. In line with the overall vision, Maria is also very attentive to detail and alerts her team members when there is a need to tune their action plans or deliverables. Maria’s skills, experience and character make her a pleasure to work with.”