Granted, I know little to nothing about the IT industry, but is a "managing director" someone who has a high school diploma plus some technical skills?
The best I’ve ever had never went to college. I was extremely productive under this person because there was a high level of trust and ownership. This was at a company whose CEO also didn’t finish his undergrad at Yale. Prior to this company I worked as an engineer at Google and had some launch/promo obsessed managers who lacked basic management skills.
