Philly Tech People News 2/21: Idinopulos leaves PeopleLinx, rejoins McKinsey; First Round Capital names first female partner

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Michael Idinopulos leaves PeopleLinx, rejoins McKinsey



Michael Idinopulos, who was PeopleLinx' Chief Marketing Officer from 2013 through 2015, has returned to McKinsey & Company, this time as VP Client Experience,  New Ventures, according to a recent update on his LinkedIn page.

Idinopulos was first with McKinsey in the mid-2000s leading firm-wide collaboration technology. His group launched some of the earliest enterprise-wide deployments of social technologies (blogs, wikis, microblogging, internal social networks), according his LinkedIn page.

He then ventured into the social enterprise world, first with Socialtext, one of the earliest technology platforms for social software inside the enterprise, and then with PeopleLinx. Among his achievements there was refocusing the company away from a dependence on LinkedIn to a more open approach built on the Salesforce platform.

New Ventures, the unit he is joining, is a tech startup within McKinsey that brings its best technology to its clients.


Idinopulos received his Ph.D., Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

There is no CMO listed on PeopleLinx' website, and no word on whether its seeking a replacement, but Amaya Capellan, who has Princeton and Wharton degrees as well as a broad range of experience, has been on board as VP of Product since early 2015.



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