Maria Sipka

Co-Founder/ EVP

Maria Sipka was amongst the first to pioneer influencer marketing in early 2000 with a mission to bring more consciousness into advertising through meaningful and impactful storytelling. Maria is visionary and co-founder at Linqia.

Over the past decade, Linqia has earned its place as a leading tech enabled full service influencer marketing provider whose turnkey programs deliver measured results for over 600 enterprise and emerging brands.

Prior to Linqia, Maria was part of the founding team and COO at XING, Europe’s leading business network, where she led XING’s monetization and internationalization plan exiting shortly after its IPO. Today, XING has a market cap of over $1B.

At the age of 19, Maria founded her first company - a content marketing agency that grew to be one of the most respected consultancies in Australia. Additionally, Maria has been recognized as one of the leading women in technology by Forbes and is a contributor to the Forbes Agency Council.

Maria is passionate about Social Impact Storytelling based on the belief that all ideas start with two things, emotional connection and inspired action.

In today’s world people are full alert to catalyze those emotions into action, looking for a way to manifest change.

With Maria's decentralized and influence driven G.I.V.E. approach, Maria is a catalyst for ideas and the potential billions of people who could be impacted by them.

The GIVEcode:

G - Start with generosity by rewarding unconventional emotion
I - Think Infinitely (without boundaries) inspiring positive reaction/happiness
V - Come from a place of Vulnerability by thinking about the individual. It's about them, not us. Let them tell their story
E- Infuse with Energy by supercharging your goals with igniting a positive mindset