Michael Idinopulos is the chief marketing officer of PeopleLinx, a venture-backed technology startup that helps large enterprises integrate social media into their sales process. Michael's professional passion is improving work by helping people connect with one another. As global director of knowledge technology for McKinsey & Company, he led one of the earliest enterprise-scale deployments of blogs, wikis, and social networking. He then joined social-business pioneer Socialtext as vice president of customer success, and became general manager of the business following its acquisition by Peoplefluent.

Michael’s TEDx talk, “Mr. Manager, Tear Down These (Digital) Walls,” is available on YouTube. He holds a BA from the University of Chicago and a PhD in philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. Michael lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Katherina Rosqueta, and three children.