Mike 'Max' Petro is a VP Sales at Axinom. He possess expertise in product management, web video, saas, streaming media, video and 41 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "From 08/29/2021 until 03/21/2023, I got to work with and know Mike from both a business owner as well as a customer perspective. Our relationship spans the pre-sales, evaluation, onboarding, and exit of DRM services. Mike is one of those persons of excellence you take for granted that you'll work with when engaging a company but alas (and especially in today's culture/environment), rarely find. Mike has been a tremendous asset to our business: • In the pre-sales stage, Mike was quick to respond to my queries and time-sensitive requests even while in the middle of his attending a conference. • We have some pretty unique requirements and Mike extended himself to reach out to Axinom HQ to get answers to ensure what could be delivered. • After the options were beyond our start-up budget and we put the engagement with Axinom on hold, Mike of his own accord, introduced me to different people in his network he thought could help us grow. • When we eventually circled back and found the right “tier” for us, Mike ensured our evaluation phase went smoothly by providing easy-to-follow guidance and having my devs work with Axinom tech support. • Mike proactively reached out to confirm our satisfaction during the evaluation. • Mike responded to an elevated email I sent to tech support about a time-sensitive issue that I had him CC’ed on and had received his out-of-office reply and who to contact – while he was on vacation. • After we became customers, Mike still weighed in to oversee getting our concerns resolved and had a speedy reply from Support (Support has been phenomenal btw in working with us to resolve our issue). He additionally checked #slack back channels to see if our “critical, DRM bug” was also being reported by enterprise customers. As an SMB, we outsourced the development of our VOD platform to a third party and what started well, ended in a dumpster fire. Mike was there to help put out the flames. The experience with Mike and Axinom had been phenomenal for us. If it weren’t for some of the constraints we were left dealing with due to our previous VOD provider, I’d still be going forward with Axinom. My gut tells me that when we have hit our next growth milestone, and we aren’t in such a “produce or perish” mode, we’ll have the breathing room to look at more robust VOD and DRM partners who can take us through the long haul. To us, our new VOD platform is just a mile/stepping stone – we haven’t hit full throttle yet. When we do, we are going to need partners like Mike & Axinom. I highly, highly recommend Mike to anyone looking to work with a person of integrity, intelligence, empathy, and expertise." and "Mike is a fantastic leader with energy in spades. I had the pleasure of working 'for' Mike at Ooyala and 'with' Mike at Brightcove after their acquisition of Ooyala's OVP business. In both instances Mike was extremely accessible, knowledgeable and helpful in challenging circumstances, always going over above for his team and company. "