Special Ops
Jono is a digital strategist, marketing technologist and full-stack developer with nearly two decades of experience in web development, SEO, analytics, brand and campaign strategy, lead gen and eCRM, CRO and more.
He’s worked with startups, agencies and international brands to fix websites, implement growth strategies, prepare for the future, and win markets.
Jono currently manages special projects at Yoast, and was previously principal consultant at respected SEO agency Distilled. Prior to that, he was global head of digital and head of insight at SEO platform Linkdex, and head of SEO at award-winning agency twentysix.
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After launching Distilled's R&D team, Tom now runs the product team at SearchPilot (formerly DistilledODN), an SEO split-testing platform that is helping bring about a new era of data-driven SEO. Tom has over 20 years experience building websites, and does a lot of research around technology trends and the future of search. He works with the Distilled & SearchPilot teams to try and forecast the impact those trends will have on SEO and Digital Marketing.
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Cross - Device Specialist, Central Europe
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Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
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Personalization Consultant
konversionsKRAFT (Web Arts AG)
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Creativity and data shape Raphael Bienz's digital marketing expertise. He is a full-stack online marketer with international consulting and project experience. As CEO, he leads the international agency BlueGlass, based in Zurich, London and Tallinn, strategically and operationally. BlueGlass' agency team designs, creates and optimizes award-winning content marketing, SEO and PPC campaigns. In addition, Raphael is a guest lecturer at various Swiss universities and is involved in professional meetings and conferences worldwide.
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Before joining Google Oliver advised some of the UK’s best loved brands, including Argos, BSkyB, HSBC and the John Lewis Partnership on their websites and digital marketing campaigns at boutique consultancy Logan Tod & Co. At Google Oliver works with product management and engineering on bringing the best of Google’s analytics products to customers and agencies across EMEA, specializing in web analytics as well as performance marketing campaign attribution and incrementality testing.
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WhatsBroadcast GmbH
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Founder & CEO
Christoph C. Cemper started working in online marketing in 2003 providing SEO consulting and link building services. Out of the need for reliable and accurate SEO software the first internal tools were developed in 2006. This was the basis for the full product LinkResearchTools (LRT) launched to the public in 2009 as SaaS product with four tools. Thanks to ongoing development LinkResearchTools today provides 21 tools with ever growing power and functionality adapted market requirements and Google changes. When the famous Google Penguin update changed the rules of SEO in 2012, Christoph launched Link Detox, software for finding links that pose a
risk in a website’s backlink profile. Christoph has been talking and writing about link risk management since early 2011 and introduced the technology and formal process for ongoing link audits in 2012 as well as pro-active removal and “disavow” of bad links. In 2015, Christoph launched Impactana, a “Content Marketing Intelligence” software that helps marketing professionals in idea finding and influencer analysis finding content & people that make an impact. Again Impactana provides unique metrics and technologies.
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Product Specialist Google Shopping, Central Europe
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CMO
Brent Csutoras is an entrepreneur, social media strategist, speaker, futurist, and father. As Founder & CEO of Pixel Road Designs, a well respected marketing design firm, and as Chief Social Media Strategist & Managing Partner at Search Engine Journal, Brent has over 10 years experience in all aspects of Social Media Marketing, especially organic social promotion.
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Search Audience & Automation Specialist, Central Europe
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Founder & CEO
Marcela De Vivo is a search veteran who has been in the industry since 1999. Marcela draws on an deep expertise in both organic and paid search to help companies large and small increase their revenue from digital marketing. Her emphasis has been in creating integrated marketing strategies that include paid, organic, social, and PR to build authoritative domains that have strong visibility across a variety of channels.
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Digital Analytics & BI Consultant
Anna Denejnaja is an expert in the field of strategy development, introduction and implementation of digital analysis, including marketing and web analytics, as well as the topics of data integration and applications of data science methods for digital analytics. As an independent digital analytics & BI consultant, she advises companies in the ecommerce, retail, insurance, finance and media business.
Until the end of 2017, Anna was head of the Data Analysis division at Hermes Nextec GmbH, a company of the otto Group based in Hamburg. In this position she built up the Business Intelligence and brought it together with Web, Marketing and CRM Analytics to provide a holistic view on customers and web performance.
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General Manage, Digital Marketing
Eric was named 2018 Search Personality of the Year at the Drum Search Awards (http://www.thedrumsearchawards.us/the-drum-search-awards-us/search-awards-us-2018), 2016 Search Marketer of the Year (Male) at the Landys (http://searchengineland.com/2016-landy-awards-winners-260063), and 2016 Search Personality of the Year at the US Search Awards (http://www.ussearchawards.com/2016-winners), and Stone Temple Consulting was also named Best Large SEO Agency of the Year at the 2016 US Search Awards, and Best Large Interactive Marketing Agency of the Year at the 2019 Internet Marketing Awards.
Eric has been speaking about digital marketing for more than a decade. He keynotes many conferences every year, including at Pubcon Las Vegas and at State of Search in Dallas. Eric is lead co-author of The Art of SEO (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032908.do), and also writes columns in sites such as Search Engine Land, and Moz.
Eric is General Manager of Digital Marketing at Perficient Digital, and was the Founder and CEO of Stone Temple Consulting (STC), a 70+ person digital marketing agency based in Massachusetts, and Perficient Digital offers content marketing, SEO, PPC, conversion optimization, and more services. Perficient Digital's clients include some of the world's largest e-tail sites and brands.
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Jens Fauldrath is founder and managing director of get:traction GmbH. He supports his clients in the development, implementation and realisation of their SEO strategy. Prior to that, he managed takevalue Consulting GmbH from 2012-2016. From 2008 to 2012 he also built up and led the SEO team of Deutsche Telekom AG P&I. Jens is a lecturer in search engine marketing at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and a member of the SEO expert advisory board and the executive board of the BVDW's Search focus group. He also runs the German podcast network for online marketing podcasts, www.termfrequenz.de There he moderates the podcast SEO House on current topics in strategic SEO.
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Rand dropped out of the University of Washington in 2000 to work full-time at his mother’s small business marketing firm as a web designer. In 2004, he created the SEOmoz blog, which, over the next decade, became the world’s most popular community and content resource for search marketers. In 2007, Rand became CEO of SEOmoz, Inc (now called Moz), the software company he co-founded with his mom based on the blog’s success. That same year, he proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Geraldine DeRuiter, with a TV commercial that received widespread publicity (and, later, an awkward appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show). The two married in 2008 in a move Rand consistently refers to as the best, luckiest one of his life.
Over 7 years as CEO, Rand grew Moz from 7 employees to 134, revenues from $800K to $29.3mm, and traffic from 1 to 30mm annual visitors. He raised two rounds of funding ($1.1mm in 2007 and $18.1mm in 2012), led three acquisitions, and, in 2013, re-branded the company from SEOmoz to Moz, shifting focus from exclusively SEO tools to broader web marketing software. Rand stepped down as CEO in February of 2014 during a rough bout with depression and left the company 4 years later. He remains chairman of Moz’s board.
Rand is also the co-founder of Inbound.org, a site to dedicated to sharing articles about marketing from across the web, alongside Dharmesh Shah. The site was sold (for no profit) to Hubspot in 2014.
Rand may be best known for his popular blogs and regular Whiteboard Friday series, watched by tens of thousands of marketers each week. Rand is also a frequent keynote speaker at marketing conferences around the world, averaging ~100 days on the road each year and 30-40 speaking appearances. He has, much to his own surprise, amassed a large following on Twitter, Pocket, Facebook, and Slideshare.
In 2018, Rand founded SparkToro (an under-development software company focused on audience and influencer intelligence) and published, with Penguin/Random House, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World.
Rand previously co-contributed to two books: Art of SEO, and Inbound Marketing & SEO. He’s been profiled in the Seattle Times, featured in Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, named to BusinessWeek’s 30 Under 30, written about in Newsweek, The Next Web, the Inc 500 (to which Moz was named 5 years in a row), and hundreds of other publications. He is, however, most proud of his prominent appearances in Geraldine’s first book, All Over the Place.
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VP, Industry Insights
Duane Forrester has over 15 years’ experience in the search, social and digital marketing fields, and is also the author of How To Make Money With Your Blog and Turn Clicks Into Customers, published through McGraw-Hill. Along the way, Duane has worked in marketing & PR with Caesar’s Palace, run his own websites, communities and consultancy, worked for small and enterprise publishers online and currently works with Bing where he helps with their Webmaster and Ecosystem programs. Prior to this, he ran the SEO program at MSN. He has been featured on NYTimes.com, Forbes.com, Enterprenuer.com, SearchEngineLand.com and served as a Board member with SEMPO (Search Engine Marketer Professionals Organization), where he founded the InHouse Committee and SEMPO’s annual Industry Salary Survey.
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Strategieberater & Google Expert
Tobias Fox doesn't do storytelling, he does storydoing. As soon as SEO, Google Ads, Analytics or content marketing is on the agenda, Tobi rolls up his sleeves: because he's all about getting down to business. Whether as an experienced consultant and coach at the Stuttgarter Digitalagentur VERDURE or as a lecturer for digital marketing at colleges and universities - Tobi is a self-made man who infects everyone around him with his spirit of optimism. So even a talk with Tobi feels more like a workshop, because his style is practical, interactive and energetic. And at various trade conferences, he represents the voice of SEO. A Fox has to do what a Fox has to do.
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VP of Analytics
Andrew Garberson is VP of Marketing Services at Bounteous one of the leading digital solution providers across North America. Andrew has led digital marketing efforts in a variety of settings, including agency, entrepreneurial and nonprofit environments, and has master's degrees in business administration and mass communications.
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Brad Geddes is a co-founder of AdAlysis, an ad testing & recommendation platform. Brad is the author of Advanced Google AdWords, the most advanced book ever written about Google's advertising program.
Brad has worked in PPC since 1998, and over those years he has worked with companies who manage tens of thousands of small PPC accounts and other companies who spend millions on marketing each month. His experience ranges from owning his own agency, to managing a boutique agency, to overseeing programs that were official resellers of Google and Microsoft. Some brands he has worked with include: Amazon, Yahoo, Google, YellowPages.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Salesforce.
One of his trademarks has been demystifying the complicated aspects of SEM. Not one to hold secrets, Brad prefers to educate his readers on the various aspects of crafting successful marketing campaigns to ensure the success for all parties involved.
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CEO & Co-founder
Bastian Grimm is the CEO & Co-founder of Peak Ace and a renowned expert in large-scale, international SEO, managing sites of almost any size and in highly competitive industries.
With more than 20 years’ experience in online marketing, technical and global SEO, Bastian was named “Search Personality of the Year” at the 2019 European Search Awards: a welcome acknowledgement of his contributions to a rapidly evolving industry. He currently oversees both Peak Ace’s search engine optimisation and content marketing initiatives.
Bastian’s believes that understanding a target market means not only getting to grips with the language, but also the culture. This has given him a unique perspective on how to reach global audiences. Bastian leads a thriving team of expert native speakers, equipped to serve clients in 20+ languages, and the results speak for themselves.
A full-service performance marketing agency with a focus on “all things search”, Peak Ace has a flair for over-achieving. Uncompromisingly technology-driven and a favourite of high profile clients such as Airbnb, SEPHORA and McKinsey & Company, Peak Ace is also celebrated among the marketing industry. In 2021, it was named Best Large Integrated Agency by multiple industry awards bodies, in both regional and global competition. Bastian is proud to lead such an innovative, ever-expanding company. His secret? Dynamic, decisive processes, a phenomenal team and always going to bed with “inbox zero”.
axxios Consulting
Founder
Timon Hartung has been active in online marketing and ad tech for over 15 years and has gained extensive experience both at the corporate level and as a startup founder. He has his origins as a technology specialist in SEO, where he is also known as a speaker at international conferences and as a lecturer. But also in performance marketing his expertise is very large, especially in the topics of Facebook, direct traffic and its tracking possibilities. With his SEO agency apexmedia, he has been advising medium-sized and large companies worldwide for many years, mainly in the areas of SEO technology, SEO strategy and SEO content marketing.
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Founder and CEO
Robin Heintze is managing director of the online marketing specialist morefire. The 80-person international team of sympathetic specialists uses all relevant channels in online marketing to achieve sustainable growth for customers. The interdisciplinary teams deliver the strategy and the interlocking implementation of several channels from a single source. Customers include B2B and B2C companies from many different industries and countries. SEO, SEA, content marketing, social media, display, marketing automation and web analysis are used to win new customers for the customers. Current online marketing know how from the experts can be found on the agency blog more-fire.com/blog
Head Of Technology / CTO
Carnect
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Founder and SEO Advocate
Markus Hövener is founder and SEO Advocate of the online marketing agency Bloofusion (www.bloofusion.de). As managing partner of Bloofusion Germany he is responsible for all activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Markus Hövener is also a book author (including "International SEO"), writes many articles for the Bloofusion blog, podcaster ("Search Camp" and "Alles auf Start"), knowledge broker (especially at www.omcampus.de) and appears as a speaker at many conferences.
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Alexander Holl is founder and managing director of 121WATT , which focuses on seminars on online marketing, SEO and Google AdWords in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. More than 20 years Internet and 15 years search machine marketing & Web analysis coin the CV of the learned business economist. In this time Alexander was among other things managing director at kalaydo.de, in the European management of Yahoo! and in responsible positions with AltaVista and Cable & Wireless. Alexander Holl is a member of the SEO expert council of the BVDW and teaches online marketing and search engine optimization at Steinbeis University. Holl is also a Google Analytics consultant at the Google Partner Academy.
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Psychologist, Conversion Manager
Euroflorist
After his study in psychology and usability, Guido started work in e-commerce. Since 2004 he helped multiple Dutch and international brands establish and optimize their online customer dialogue. Working in IT as a psychologist gives a different and often fun & useful perspective on products and users that can be used to improve UX and business metrics. He is often invited to speak at international events about Persuasion and E-commerce and Magento and works at Euroflorist, one of Europes largest flower companies.
Digital Analyst
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Larry Kim is the founder of WordStream, a PPC management software and services company whose free PPC and keyword research tools have been used by more than a million internet marketers worldwide. Larry has been named the most influential PPC marketer in the world for the last two years by PPC Hero and 3QDigital, and his internet marketing blog is read by nearly a million visitors every month. Larry is a columnist for Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, Hubspot, Moz, Inc Magazine, Marketing Profs, and dozens of other publications.
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Philipp has been product manager, inhouse SEO and was heading Marketing at the market leading price comparsion in Germany (Idealo.de). He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with extensive inventory in highly competitive industries (eCommerce, Comparison Search Engines, Marketplaces, Classifieds & Travel).
Since 2011, Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and organic growth strategies to share his experience in search (Google, Bing, Yandex, SEO / PPC), comparison shopping und business intelligence with publishers, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant, angel investor and advisor to Rocket Internet SE. Lately, he's also been venture capital funds and top-tier private equity firms like KKR.
Philipp serves on the supervisory board of HomeToGo SE and is co-host of the Doppelgänger TechTalk Podcast, which is listened to by 30.000 marketing and tech executives twice a week.
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Abteilungsleiter SEO · Online Marketing
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Liquid Newsroom
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Strategic SEO & UX Consultant
She became known as "Nerd in Skirt" over 15 years ago in the still small and rather private SEO scene in Germany. Since then, she has been considered a pioneer in strategic search engine optimization with a clear focus on large corporations and renowned brands. With her experience in SEO, UX, brand management, consumer psychology and business requirements, she serves international key accounts without losing focus on search and information management. Her academic foundation is a master's degree in information science, social psychology and legal informatics and a postgraduate degree in business management.
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Owner
Karl Kratz has been developing holistic online marketing strategies for his readers and clients since 1996. The entrepreneur founded and developed several companies and many successful medium-sized brands. In 2009 Karl Kratz retired from the operative business and has been looking after his online marketing readership even more intensively ever since.
He specializes in potential development and conversion optimization through the use of deconstructivist strategies.
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Lead SEO Manager
Hanns is Lead SEO Manager at Chefkoch (Gruner+Jahr, from 2022 RTL). With over 22 million unique users per month, Chefkoch is Europe's highest-reach food platform (#3 worldwide). Hanns studied business administration with a focus on marketing with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Heribert Meffert in Münster and has been involved with search engines for over 20 years. After holding management positions at companies such as RTL, Deutsche Telekom, Tomorrow Focus, muenchen.de and meinestadt.de, Hanns is a familiar face on the SEO scene, particularly due to his many years as Head of Marketing at SEO tool provider SISTRIX. In addition to his work at Chefkoch, Hanns also advises various companies as an SEO expert. He reports on his experiences from the SEO kitchen at Chefkoch and his SEO tool experiences as co-host together with his wife Christine in the SEO podcast "SEO Date".
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Product Specialist Google Shopping / Omnichannel, Central Europe
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VP of SEM
Aaron has been in the industry 10+ years, leading paid media campaigns with clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies to startups and local businesses. He's the VP of SEM at Tinuiti, a full service digital agency where he manages a team of 60+ search marketers across North America. Aaron's role is to look years ahead rather than days, helping to futureproof client marketing strategies and grow his teams' careers.
In addition to his day to day, Aaron's a frequent industry speaker and educator at two universities, working to grow the next generation of great marketers. He spends his evenings and weekends as a golfer, a hockey player, and a budding hot sauce manufacturer.
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CEO & Founder
Russell is a marketing data guy - having consulted or worked with some of the worlds largest brands he now is building the future of marketing tech whilst continuing his passions to change the way data is used my organisations all over the globe. Having run in-house, agencies, consultancies and his own tech businesses Russell has experience from working with startups to global enterprises. Russell often is a keynote speaker at conferences on marketing data and welcomes to Q&A style format to break open the discussion.
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Paid Media Manager
I have a breadth of experience in digital marketing both agency-side and in-house and have worked across SEO and Content before I ultimately decided to specialize in PPC. I have about 2 and a half years of experience of working in PPC though I have only been focusing on it exclusively during my time at Ambergreen Internet Marketing over the past year. I am AdWords certified and possess cross-channel expertise, having run a range of Search, Display and Video campaigns as well as activity on non-Google networks such as Bing, Facebook and LinkedIn. I am most conversant with PPC in the education sector and have also worked across B2B, travel, retail, gaming and media. When I'm not trying to grow my client's accounts or hanging out on #ppcchat, I am most likely weightlifting, getting outside or spending time with my guinea pig.
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Vice President Global Marketing
Since the successful merger of MessengerPeople - one of the leading SaaS providers for messenger communication - with the international CPaaS player Sinch in September 2021, Matthias Mehner has been leading the marketing of the business unit "Applications & Conversational Solutions" at Sinch as Vice President.
Dubbed "one of the few true WhatsApp savvy" by many media outlets, including t3n, Matthias Mehner has gathered insights into thousands of conversational messaging campaigns and projects since 2017. Based on this, he is constantly developing new strategies for the successful use of WhatsApp & Co. Mehner is on the CCW Advisory Board, teaches at various academies & has published a reference book "Messenger Marketing" with Springer Gabler Verlag.
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Lead Software Architect / Link Removal Specialist
Sha is concept and process development lead behind Link removal outreach tool, rmoov and says she never met a “natural” link she didn’t love. She lives and breathes Link penalties, link removal and remediation.
Spending time every day in the link removal trenches managing link removal work for clients and providing phone and email support for rmoov subscribers gives Sha a look at pretty much every spammy link building technique and link penalty issue you might imagine... and then some! Even though “unbuilding” links is a huge part of her everyday life, her fresh approach to penalties means finding ways to protect brands; preserve reputation; and earn links while getting sites back on the right side of Google's algorithms and Webspam Team.
Former newspaper editor and radio broadcaster, Sha has spoken at SMX West, State of Search, SMX East, SMX Sydney, Mozcon, ionSearch and the Link Removal Roadshow Sessions in Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
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Head of SEO and Owned Media
GroupM Denmark
Head of SEO and Owned Media in GroupM Connect Denmark, Nikolaj Mogensen is working with some of the largest international brands to create organic visibility. Since 2008 Nikolaj Mogensen has been working with SEO and from the beginning he has been largely fascinated by the many facets of SEO. Using tools to visualize knowledge about markets has always been a cornerstone in his approach when showing and drawing SEO for decision makers. Since 2010 Nikolaj Mogensen has been a large part of the Danish SEO community with numerous blogposts, guides and keynotes in Denmark Read more about Nikolaj Mogensen at: http://nikolajmogensen.com
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Webmaster Trends Analyst
John coordinates Google Search webmaster & developer outreach efforts as a webmaster trends analyst. He and his team connect the Google-internal world of Search engineering, to those who create and optimize public websites. Together, they help to bring an understanding of the external web ecosystem to internal teams, and help publishers make awesome websites that work well for users and search engines. John joined Google in 2007 and works in Zuerich, Switzerland.
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CEO & Founder
Lisa Myers is the founder and CEO of Verve Search. She has been working in Marketing since 2001 and got “bit” by the “SEOl” bug in 2005, when she was tasked with setting up the Search department at a Integrated Marketing Agency. In 2009 she decided to start her own agency and Verve Search was born.
Lisa is a prolific part of the SEO community worldwide and contributes regularly to publications on and offline as well as best practice guides and round tables. She is the founder of Women in Search, SEO-Chicks.com and co-founder of StateofSearch.com. Lisa also speaks frequently at conferences in the search and general digital marketing industry worldwide and is often hired to train internal teams, agency and universities on SEO, Content Marketing and Social.
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Chief Growth Officer
Jon is an experienced senior leader with over 19 years’ experience within the Digital Marketplace working for large corporate organisations to start ups within the sector. Having worked Senior Roles for Agencies, Publisher side with Yahoo and more recently the Ad Technology space as VP and MD EMEA of Marin Software and CMO Karhoo Inc. Jon has a strong understanding of all sides of the market, very strong business and people connections across EMEA and recognised for his experience and thought leadership within the European online advertising industry. Having worked in Paid Search since its inception, with many years’ experience in SEO, Display and Paid Social as well. He is a regular speaker/moderator at conferences worldwide and frequently judges Awards in the Industry such as UK Search Awards, European Search Awards, US Search Awards, Performance Marketing Awards to name a few.
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Vice President Growth - Organic & CRM
Norman Nielsen is Vice President Growth (SEO, CRM, ASO, Content Marketing) at travel platform OMIO and works with colleagues from over 40 different nations. Prior to that, he spent 6.5 years building the global SEO and content marketing team at Zalando and built SEO into a success channel at Axel Springer's real estate portal.
He is considered a specialist in international search engine optimization, innovation management and global teams.
As an independent consultant, Norman supports global companies on their digital strategy and online marketing. He brings experience from 16 years of e-commerce for international companies as well as his education on 3 continents.
Following the motto "people first, but product second", Norman sees the future success of e-commerce companies in the ability to derive personalized, automated, user-centric products from data and quickly bring them to the international market.
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Strategic Account Manager
Michael Oertel has been a member of the Bing Ads team since 2012 in various functions. First in the area of training and quality management for EMEA and LATAM, he then supported the team in Dublin in October 2014 as Mid-Market Account Manager. Here he successfully managed the medium-sized customers for a year and changed to Munich in October 2015 as Strategic Account Manager to the team of Carsten Rauh. His clients include large agencies and well-known direct advertisers from the travel and retail verticals, where he can contribute his long-term search experience in the area of remarketing, audiences and shopping.
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Director
Dan Petrovic is Australia's best-known name in the field of search engine optimisation. His research and experiments have drawn attention of the worldwide community and major industry blogs. Dan is a frequent blogger and a speaker at all major Australian and select international search industry events. Conference delegates describe him as a passionate presenter with practical and actionable approach. Dan holds a multimedia degree from Griffith University in Brisbane, where he often presents as a guest lecturer and contributes to quality of teaching material as a member of the curriculum advisory board. Best way to get in touch with Dan is through Twitter.
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SEO Manager
Kerstin Reichert has been a Digital Marketer since 2009, with the last five years focusing heavily on SEO. She has gained tremendous knowledge and experience working in four different countries, inhouse as well as agency-side, consulting a wide range of clients from large brands to Startups, spanning across numerous industries. In addition, she has been teaching various digital marketing topics during seminars and workshops, and has gained recognition over the last four years, during her ongoing contribution to LinkedIn's e-learning platform video2brain. Currently, she is based in London, working as the SEO Manager at TSB Bank, where she is responsible for the strategic development of SEO, internal consulting and agency management.
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Regional Sales Manager - DACH
Christian describes himself as a digital native with a pragmatic view on challenges. Having worked in both technical and business roles in the online sector, he loves to take a step back to concentrate on the bigger picture to find simple solutions for everyday advertising challenges. Additionally, as ex-Googler and passionate Outdoor Athlete, he has an aversion against common “touristic” paths that everybody takes and rather looks for different ways to do things.
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Founder and VP of Innovation
A former teacher with a knack for advising, Wil has been helping companies develop brand marketing strategies since 1999. As the industry evolved, so has Wil’s approach. In recent years, Wil has been leading the charge in leveraging “Big Data” to break down silos between SEO, Paid Media, and traditional marketing -- helping clients see the big picture by combining and analyzing data from various sources (even billboards). Wil’s data-driven approach to consulting helps clients and their teams make better, more strategic, cross-channel decisions and hit the ground running with honest, actionable insights to start generating results and revenue.
Wil likes helping people too. While data is at the forefront of Wil’s approach, so is wanting to help others grow and better themselves. Seeing the need for an agency that does good by its team, clients, and community, Wil started Seer Interactive in 2002 as a one-person operation out of his living room. Today, Seer is a remote-first company with offices in Philadelphia and San Diego that employs over 200 people. As Seer’s VP of Innovation, Wil develops strategies to help clients find opportunities where the typical tools do not. His methods have shaped the search industry worldwide, and he regularly speaks for marketing conferences all around the world. When he’s not working, you can catch Wil hanging out with his wife Nora, sons Rio & Niko, checking out the best craft beer spots he can find, or keeping up with his running goals.
Managing Director and Head of PPC
Martin is Head of SEA at online marketing agency Bloofusion Germany. As a PPC geek, he loves to take things a bit further – by digging into the mechanisms of Google Ads, building tools, or doing cool things with data.
He blogs regularly at the German Bloofusion Blog. In English, he blogs at PPC-Epiphany.com, but only when he feels that something is advanced or exclusive enough to be worth sharing internationally. He is best known for his Google Shopping segmentation strategy, the Quality Score Tracker script, and his work on Customized Ads.
Martin has spoken at numerous conferences over the years, including SMX, Marketing Festival, ADworld Experience and Heroconf.
CMO, Author, AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans &Followers
Jeff serves as CMO for Yext, the company that puts business on the map with the award-winning Yext Location Cloud. Prior to joining Yext, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing Insights for Salesforce and ExactTarget where he built the content marketing and thought-leadership teams.
Jeff’s first book, AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers (Wiley 2014), has been lauded by marketers and executives alike as a must-read for those interested in the rise of proprietary audience development as a core marketing responsibility. A Clevelander now living in the heart of Manhattan, he continues to bask in the afterglow of the Cavs' historic NBA Championship.
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Specialist Lawyer for IT Law
Dr. Martin Schirmbacher is a lawyer and specialist lawyer for IT at HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte in Berlin, a law firm specialised in media and technology. There he is head of the IT and data protection team. Martin advises many well-known agencies and companies from the online industry as well as advertising and software companies. In his work he deals a lot with the legal aspects of new forms of online advertising. Martin and his team focus on contract drafting and negotiations as well as data protection.
Martin is a well-known speaker at numerous industry events. At the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) and Data Driven Business, Martin has given presentations on legal aspects of online marketing for many years. In addition, Martin also gives seminars for 121WATT and many in-house workshops.
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CO-Founder and President
FMX World
Robert Seeger - son of a Norwegian sweater - spreads homespun theses about innovation and sales. The studied art historian is considered a recognized expert on late Gothic Madonnas and postmodern marketing. For almost 20 years he has been advising, provoking and proselytizing companies, ministries and NPOs in all matters concerning innovative thinking and revolutionary marketing. Since the beginning, Robert has been committed body & soul and heart & brain to the Wings for Life World Run. As a social guy and motivator he uses all his power to make sure that soon people with spinal cord injuries will be able to walk again.
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Managing Partner
Florian Stelzner's core competence is the creative and goal-oriented presentation and simplification of complex interrelationships in trainings, seminars and workshops.
His experience from over 15 years of successful work for well-known companies & brands enables him to develop pragmatic and implementable solutions for Wingmen customers.
The founding of Wingmen Online Marketing GmbH in July 2013 means for Florian: consulting with the highest quality standards and individuality for each customer.
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Director Performance Marketing
Sebastian Stryj is Director Performance Marketing at SEM Boutique. There he puts his heart and soul into the satisfaction of customers and the team. Prior to that, Sebastian was SEA Senior Manager at the Marc O'Polo apparel brand and managed its SEA activities for all seven countries. For three years Sebastian was responsible for Google AdWords at windeln.de, where he started in 2012 as Online Marketing Manager and left the company in 2015 as Head of PPC. Sebastian and his team blog on sem-boutique.de/magazin.
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Gründer und Chief Evangelist
Marcus Tandler, also known as "Mediadonis", is co-founder and co-managing director of RYTE (formerly OnPage.org), a multiple award-winning software for sustainable website quality management. Marcus loves SEO and has been active in SEO since 1998. With the launch of Google in Germany in 2000, he grew up with Google and its search algorithm. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the globe such as TEDx, LeWeb, The Next Web, SMX and O´Reilly´s web2.0 expo. In addition, he has also given lectures at in-house events of large corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Marcus holds a master's degree from the University of Augsburg and a diploma in media marketing from the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing in Munich. Today he is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, the University of Applied Sciences Munich and the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg. In April 2017 Marcus was awarded "European Search Personality of the Year" at the European Search Awards in Krakow.
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Christian Tembrink has been digitizing the marketing and sales processes of well-known brands for over 20 years. In his first career station as e-commerce manager at the electricity provider Yello, he built up data-based online marketing controlling, was responsible for nationwide campaigns for the 2006 World Cup and increased sales successes with performance marketing. The Cologne-based entrepreneur left the electricity provider in 2007 and founded various companies - including the nationwide online marketing agency netspirits, which he successfully sold in 2021. In his role as a consultant, he optimized digital marketing strategies for Toyota Germany, APETITO AG or Globus Baumarkt to win new customers with digital content. In 2020, he published the reference book "Sales Psychology in Online Marketing" - a beginner's work with practical tips and tricks on how websites can shape purchasing decisions even more effectively. Since July 2022, he has been supporting the GROW Digital Group, among others, in setting up inbound marketing and content strategy as a marketing consultant. As a lecturer at the IHK Academy and also the Fresenius University in Cologne, he shares his practical experience in the areas of content management, digital marketing strategy and data-driven marketing.
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Thaler Enterprises
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Head of Enterprise Solutions
Marcus Tober, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Semrush and founder of Searchmetrics. With 22 years of experience implementing SEO and developing software products one of the veterans in the industry. Now at Semrush on a mission to change the way companies understand and execute SEO by eliminating dependencies and issues between SEO, product, engineering and marketing.
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Author
Named by Adweek on their 2018 Young Influentials List, Purna specializes in digital marketing, AI, and the future of search. In 2016 she was named by PPC Hero as the #1 Most Influential Expert in the world. She is a regular keynote speaker at conferences across the globe such as AdWeek, DMEXCO, The Next Web Conference and INBOUND. An award-winning former journalist, Purna is also a columnist for Search Engine Land and Moz. In her spare time, she is an avid traveler, aspiring top chef and amateur knitter.
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Display Specialist, Central Europe
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Geschäftsführer
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VP Client Solutions
As Head of Account Management at Productsup, Lena is responsible for supporting hundreds of clients across the globe and ensuring that they receive the best possible service from her expert solutions team. Having joined Productsup in 2014 with a passion for data and SaaS, Lena is what you would call a true “feed fighter”.
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Head of Performance Sales, Central Europe
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Founder
Dominic is the founder of PipedOut, a startup which builds data warehouses for SEO teams. Before that he ran teflSearch and worked at Distilled as senior consultant. He has a background in full stack web development, maths & economics.
He's worked with companies of all sizes from Fortune 10 to small start-ups, writes and was a regular speaker at everywhere from Inbound to SMX & Searchlove.
Based in London with a small french bulldog, he makes things, breaks things and automates as much as possible. (And really loves Bruce Springteen.)
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Oliver Zenglein is managing director at The Boutique Agency. Before that, the business economist (Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH)) and advertising merchant managed the online marketing of windeln.de, was responsible for the worldwide online marketing of the dating agency be2 and worked as online marketing manager at Scout24.
Oliver has been giving Google Ads seminars for professionals at 121WATT since 2009 and is blogging at https://www.the-boutique-agency.de/magazin.
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