Maria Sipka, Linqia

Maria Sipka, CEO and co-founder of Linqia, is an online community builder. As a co-founder of Linqia her vision is to list all online communities and groups existing on the internet. With experience across marketing, business development and community building, she aims to establish Linqia as the primary place to search, find and join online communities and groups on the web. She is also writing for Linqias blog.

Prior to her position at Linqia, Sipka spent ten years in formulating customer acquisition and retention programs in Australia with the former three years building online communities as the COO and then Director of Community Development at XING.