Eric Maida
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Modern Learning Strategist
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As the CEO of Degreed, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Eric, our Dir of Enterprise
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Founder & CEO of Degreed | Future of Work & EDU | Skills-first & Alt-credentials
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Experience
TrustModel AI
Vice President | Growth
Oct 2025 - Present
TrustModel.ai is a leading AI trust and safety platform providing in-depth, independent evaluations of both public and custom AI models across key areas such as security, hallucination, bias, and business performance. The company empowers enterprises to confidently deploy AI technologies by delivering clear, actionable insights and risk assessments, helping customers meet evolving regulatory expectations and industry standards. With an emphasis on explainability and transparency, TrustModel.ai is at the forefront of building trust in AI adoption for businesses worldwide, making responsible AI a competitive advantage.
Citrine
Corporate Creator
Mar 2026 - Present
As a Citrine-Certified Corporate Creator, I bridge the gap between innovative B2B solutions and the audiences that need them most.
I specialize in identifying the "extreme value" in SaaS and AI tools and translating that into engaging digital content. Whether it's a deep-dive written post or a high-energy short-form video, my goal is to help brands humanize their technology and drive meaningful engagement.
What I bring to the table:
Video Content: Expertly crafted shorts and video posts that simplify complex concepts.
Written Insights: Thought leadership and tactical advice for the modern tech landscape.
Strategic Partnerships: A professional, Citrine-vetted approach to brand collaborations.
🚀 Let's build something together!
🤝 For brand partnerships and inquiries: [email protected]
MT Growth Partners
Co-Founder
Oct 2025 - Present
MT Growth Partners is an executive advisory firm that designs scalable go-to-market engines and high-performance revenue organizations for founders and growth-stage companies. We partner with leadership teams at critical inflection points—from early traction to enterprise scale—to establish commercial credibility in complex markets.
Core Focus Areas:
Revenue Architecture: Designing repeatable sales models, ICP definitions, and multi-level account scoring frameworks to drive predictable growth.
GTM Strategy & Execution: Leading segment expansion planning, outbound demand generation, and the translation of technical innovation into buyer-centric value propositions.
Organizational Build-Out: Structuring high-performance teams through role definition, compensation design, and rigorous forecasting systems.
Commercial Credibility: Establishing trust in highly regulated, high-stakes environments for AI and SaaS companies.
Engagement Models:
Fractional Leadership: Serving as interim CRO or Chief Revenue Officer.
Strategic Advisory: Providing ongoing GTM support for Venture-backed businesses and their Boards.
Proven track record providing day-to-day executive sponsorship for deals and accounts within F500.
Vandilay Plastics
Fractional Sales Leader
Oct 2025 - Present
Oversee go-to-market strategy for Vandilay Plastics, driving customer acquisition efforts in the plastics industry.
Develop and implemented sales initiatives that expanded the company's market presence across the United States.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align sales strategies with overall business objectives, enhancing operational efficiency.
Harvard Business Impact Enterprise
Senior Strategic Relationship Manager
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025
Our teams help Global 2000 clients enable transformational strategies within their organizations by developing leadership skills and bench strength -- our mission is to move leaders forward. Leveraging the remarkable depth and breadth of Harvard Business School resources, Harvard Business Review, and an unrivaled network of industry experts, we create learning experiences for all levels, from executive leadership programs to enterprise-wide engagements for thousands of global employees.
Degreed
Director | Enterprise Sales
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Degreed is disrupting the old learning model. Organizations and individuals use Degreed to locate, track and recognize all social, informal, and formal learning.
The Degreed platform solves the most time-consuming and expensive Learning and Development challenges by rationalizing all of your existing vendor partners, the wealth of our curated content, and the wider web into a single-source, mobile-ready user experience.
We curate content from over 1200 high-quality providers, MOOCs, videos, books, PDFs, and articles into the world's largest library, align the content to skills and competencies, frame it in a personalized learner-centric portal, and offer this to clients with deep insights and analytics on all formal, informal and social learning.
Simplifying your learning infrastructure while connecting to your LMS and SharePoint sites, Degreed helps the Learner easily find the most relevant content from your internal resources as well as courses, books, videos, Ted talks, articles, and events from our expansive partner content providers. Learning-focused organizations gain a more holistic view of employee development while receiving insights and analytics on the full learning process.
Area9 Lyceum
Director | Enterprise Sales
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
IT'S ALL ABOUT BRAINS
At Area9, we have devoted more than 20 years to the relentless pursuit of understanding how people think and learn – and how to improve it. Two decades of research have focused on human factors, learning, product development, content development, and computer science.
The common thread is TECHNOLOGY + BRAINS.
We have systematically invested in “supercharging” humans through specialized software and technology. The reason is we know that humans combined with technology is a superior approach for each individual.
EdCast
Director | Enterprise Solutions
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
The future of learning has arrived. EdCast is a fast-growing learning experience platform that provides unified content discovery and aggregation to helps organizations turn knowledge into better performance.
No matter where your learning content or knowledge might be, EdCast helps your learners discover it and use it. EdCast is focused on extracting the value of the investments you have made in LMS platforms, content libraries and the tacit knowledge of your employees.
EdCast delivers an LXP platform that allows every individual to be a valued contributor which directly impacts the performance of your enterprise.
Cornerstone OnDemand
Strategic Accounts Principal - B2B Sales
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Engaging and partnering with some of the most complex and largest global organizations (Fortune 100) to facilitate, and manage explorations around our organic SaaS solutions that enables them to execute on business initiatives pertaining to Human Capital Management and Talent Management.
- Carry and attain principal level quota on a quarterly basis.
- Develop and execute a targeted research strategy to identify ideal prospects.
- Cold call prospective clients and leverage information gathered from research to set net new
appointments.
- Establish rapport and build relationships with C-level executives in order to drive results.
- Probe for areas of opportunity and assess customer's business needs, goals and objectives.
- Connect and tailor sales pitch to align with identified business needs.
Cornerstone OnDemand
Sr. Corporate Account Developer - B2B Sales
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
ACCOLADES:
- CAD of the Quarter - Q2 FY '16
- 145% Quota Attainment YTD - FY '16
- Current Sales Production YTD - FY '17 over 100%
- Top 5 Sales Associates for closed/won revenue
- SPARK Mentor
- Key developer in Social Selling initiative
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Carry and attain senior level quota on a quarterly basis.
- Responsible for mentoring new sales associates and assisting with on-boarding.
- Develop and execute a targeted research strategy to identify ideal prospects.
- Cold call prospective clients and leverage information gathered from research to set net new
appointments.
- Establish rapport and build relationships with C-level executives in order to drive results.
- Probe for areas of opportunity and assess customers business needs, goals and objectives.
- Connect and tailor sales pitch to align with identified business needs.
- Manage territory of 15 states throughout Southwestern and Midwestern United States.
Cornerstone OnDemand
Corporate Account Developer - B2B Sales
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
- Develop and execute a targeted research strategy to identify ideal prospects.
- Cold call prospective clients and leverage information gathered from research to set net new
appointments.
- Establish rapport and build relationships with C-level executives in order to drive results.
- Probe for areas of opportunity and assess customers business needs, goals and objectives.
- Connect and tailor sales pitch to align with identified business needs.
- Manage territory of 15 states throughout Southwestern and Midwestern United States.
- Carry and attain quota on a quarterly basis.
ACCO Engineered Systems
Project Engineer
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
- Work closely with Project Managers to facilitate sales, service, and construction of HVAC projects.
- Prepare and recommend HVAC system concepts with alternates as deemed suitable.
- Provide a responsible HVAC proposal that will meet Owner and General Contractor requirements.
- Focus engineering efforts to produce a complete mechanical design and initiate coordination with related consultants.
- Initiate submittal and approval process.
- Initiate field mobilization, fabrication, and installation of work.
- Mitigate and resolve design, logistical, or field issues.
- Supervise project commissioning and resolve any operational or warranty problems.
- Provide all close-out documents to Owner or Contractor.
- Set up a warranty and service/maintenance program.