Maria Founta

Maria Founta

Head of Marketing, Southeast Europe

Google, Greece

Maria Founta is Google’s Head of Marketing for South East Europe. She focuses on
establishing strategic partnerships and launching Google services and initiatives that
support consumers and help businesses grow online. She is also the founder of
Grow Greek Tourism Online, a Google initiative that has supported over 250K people
in the tourism sector to develop their digital skills and grow their business
the
program has scaled to Japan and more countries. She first joined Google in 2006, as
a Google Customer Solutions Manager, leading the teams in 8 markets in EMEA.
Before Google, Maria held an engineering management position at Rhetorical
Systems Ltd., a world-leading Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems developer in
Edinburgh, Scotland. She joined the company in 2002 and led the design and
development of its speech products for South Europe.
Maria holds a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from NTUA and recently
graduated from INSEAD’s Marketing Academy in France. She was born and raised
in Greece and has worked in the UK, Ireland, Greece and Japan.