Marco Marquez

Marco Marquez

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Head of Solutions Engineering, EMEA
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

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  • Hightouch
    Head of Solutions Engineering, EMEA
    Hightouch
    Feb 2026 - Current (8 months)
  • Kong Inc
    Solutions Engineering Leader, Enterprise SEMEA, CEMEA & META
    Kong Inc
    Feb 2024 - Feb 2026 (2 years 1 month)
    Helping customers connect and secure API services across hybrid architectures with the industry’s most performant, scalable and flexible service connectivity platform.

    We have raised $170M from Tiger Global Management, Index Ventures, a16z, GGV, CRV, Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.

    As the first sales engineer hired at Kong, I've been an integral part of most of the Kong journey where we have now reached Unicorn status with a $2+ billion valuation. Kong has also crossed the $150M ARR gate while remaining growing at 40% YoY.

    Awards while doing this position:
    • Received the award: "Global Sales Engineer Manager of the Year" for FY2024
    • President's Club for FY2024
  • Kong Inc
    Global Manager, Solutions Engineering - Commercial
    Kong Inc
    Aug 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 7 months)
    Awards while doing this position:
    • Managed team that achieved 166% for Q4 FY2022 against quota
    • Received the award: "Global SE Leader of the Year" for FY2022
    • Member of Presidents club for FY2022
  • Kong Inc
    Senior Solutions Architect
    Kong Inc
    Aug 2017 - Aug 2021 (4 years 1 month)
    • First sales engineer at Kong
    • As the first Go-To-Market Kong employee in the EU, was directly responsible for starting and growing the business in Europe.
    • Helped establish and grow Kong's market in LatAm and EMEA to make these territories produce almost half of Kong's quarterly ACV.
    • Worked side-by-side with the sales team, identifying, qualifying business opportunities with focus on the technical needs of the customer
    • Created and taught on-site training and web-based training for European and Latin American customers and partners
    • Imparted live demos of Kong’s API Gateway in order to show value of the product and meet prospect’s business requirements
    • Worked with the Kong’s Product and Platform team
  • New Relic Inc
    Technical Partner Manager
    New Relic Inc
    Oct 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year)
    • Act as a dedicated service-side point of contact for New Relic API Developer Partners
    • Conduct high-impact services including customized product trainings, account reviews, feature request prioritization, and on-site visits.
  • New Relic Inc
    US SMB & LatAm Enterprise Sales Engineer
    New Relic Inc
    Apr 2014 - Oct 2015 (1 year 7 months)
    • Complemented sales relationship as a technical consultant during pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales phases for enterprise class SaaS product
    • Led LatAm technical sales engineering that increased revenue in the region by 125%.
    • Helped bring in 1.4M+ USD in new ARR within my first two quarters.
    • Liaised with Sales and Marketing departments to perform onsite and Web demonstrations of new products and services to customers as well as Sales Executives.
    • Received awards for “Exceptional Performance” and “Above and Beyond”.
  • Box
    Technical Consultant
    Box
    Aug 2012 - Apr 2014 (1 year 9 months)
    • Responsible for providing business, advisory and technical skills to Box's most amazing and important customers. Worked with customers on designing and implementing systems that may include object/data modeling and workflow design business logic programming. Helped solve other technical and business problems as driven by customer requirements. I was the lead technical architect on the team that successfully implement one of Box's biggest customers, Schneider-Electric.
    • Led architecture, technical design, and product implementation discussions for the Single Sign On authentication service.
    • Supported client's developers designing, troubleshooting and improving the client's product that would leverage Box's API.
    • Produced
  • Planisware
    Technical Consultant II
    Planisware
    Oct 2009 - Aug 2012 (2 years 11 months)
    • Responsible for implementing Planisware's software solution and providing customer support with their configuration, use and maintenance.
    • Work in partnership with clients advising them how to use Planisware's software to overcome problems and meet objectives, improving structure and efficiency of the organization.
    • Worked as part of a team for the development and implementation of Project, Resource and Portfolio management systems for both Alcon and Roche.
    • Authored and performed system administrator's trainings for Roche. These trainings were done in United Kingdom, Switzerland, Poland and United States.
    • Developed shell scripts that reduced time spent monitoring error reports, migrating server environments and r
  • Goldman Sachs
    Network Desktop Solution (NDS) Technology Intern
    Goldman Sachs
    May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)
    • Held multifaceted responsibilities to configure, install and administer Citrix XP/VMWare ESX server farms.
    • Improved inventory control capabilities by developing a script that gathered, organized and outputted how server farms where divided based on location and department.
    • Provided desktop support in person and by phone.
  • Goldman Sachs
    Technology Team Intern
    Goldman Sachs
    May 2007 - Aug 2007 (4 months)
    • Provided desktop support to over 500 people in person and by phone.
    • Helped in the planning of major upgrade for infrastructure equipment which lowered network maintenance costs, improved service, increased performance and customer support.
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  • WU Executive Academy
    Master of Business Administration (MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
    WU Executive Academy
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    Graduated from the WU Executive Academy with focus on Entrepreneurship & Innovation - with honors.
  • City College of San Francisco
    Not pursuing a degree
    City College of San Francisco
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)
    Classes taken in order to keep up with the newest technologies.

    Courses I have taken so far:
    - CNIT201E (CCNA Course). Network Fundamentals.
    - CNIT202E (CCNA Course). Routing Protocols and Concepts.
    - CNIT133. Interactive Web Pages in Javascript.
    - CS130. PHP Programming.
    - CS160B. Unix/Linux Shell Script Programming
    - SMBS135. Ownership/Operation of Small Businesses
    - Photography 51 - Beginning Photography

    Achieved a grade of A (Excellent) for all of the courses above.
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Bachelor of Science (B.S, Computational Engineering
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009 (4 years 1 month)
    I studied a large blend of courses which mainly included Engineering, Math, Computer Science and Numerical Analysis. I managed to do this while supporting myself through college by working 20+ hrs/week for the last three years, including the summers.

    The summer after graduation I lived in Italy for 4 months. During this time, I traveled to many countries across Europe including: France, England, Switzerland, Spain and Germany.
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    • J
      Above and Beyond Q1 FY2016 - Sales Engineering
      Jul
    • J
      Exceptional Performance Q3 FY2015 - Sales Engineering
      Jan
    • Kong Inc
      FY2022 - Global SE Leader of the Year
      Kong Inc
    • F
      FY2023 - Global SE Leader of the Year
      FEB
    • F
      FY2021 - Global Sales Engineer of the Year
      FEB
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