Join us for the first European
edition of SMX Advanced!

Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2019 – Berlin
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Bastian Grimm is the Director of Organic Search at Peak Ace and a renowned expert in large-scale, international SEO – managing sites of almost any size in highly competitive industries.

Always eager to expand his knowledge, with more than 15 years’ experience in online marketing, technical and global SEO, Bastian currently oversees Peak Ace’s search engine optimisation as well as content marketing initiatives.

Striving for efficiency is one of Bastian Grimm’s key guiding principles. It has shaped his entire career. His belief that understanding a target market means not only getting to grips with the language, but also the culture, has held him in good stead. Bastian leads a thriving team of expert native speakers, able 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. Having been named a FOCUS growth champion for multiple years in a row, as well as scooping up trophies at both the European Search and Drum Search Awards, Bastian is proud to lead such an innovative, ever-expanding company. His secret? Dynamic, decisive processes, a phenomenal team and going to bed with inbox zero.

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 was 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.

Jono Alderson has over a decade of blended experience in digital marketing, with expertise in SEO, analytics, brand strategy, campaign strategy, lead generation, eCRM automation, conversation rate optimisation and web development – from defining the ‘big picture’ and strategic direction, right down to getting his hands dirty in the nitty-gritty technical detail. He’s worked with agencies, startups, household brands and FTSE 100 companies to define, support and deliver successful SEO, content, analytics and brand strategies at an international level.

As Head of SEM, Martin Röttgerding is in charge of search engine advertising at Bloofusion, an online marketing agency specializing in SEO and SEM. He is responsible for all SEM activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, the business information scientist researches in the field of search engine advertising, in particular Google AdWords. On the one hand, he pursues theoretical questions such as the functionality of quality factors, on the other hand, he also continues to work on one or the other campaign and tests the subtleties and limits of the AdWords system. He regularly writes about new findings, tips and current developments in the search radar, the Internet captain blog and the professional blog “PPC Epiphany”.

Tom conceptualised DistilledODN, the first SEO split-testing platform available publicly, and leads team that are building it. He believes the platform could bring a new era of data-driven SEO. He does lot of research around technology trends and the future of search, and work with Distilled’s consulting team to try and forecast the impact those trends will have on SEO and Digital Marketing.

Marcus Tandler, also known as “Mediadonis”, is co-founder and co-managing director of RYTE (formerly OnPage.org), a multiple award-winning website quality management software. Marcus loves SEO and has been active in SEO since 1998, growing up with Google and its search algorithm with the launch of Google in Germany in 2000. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the globe such as TEDx, LeWeb, The Next Web, SMX and O´Reilly´s web2.0expo. In addition, he has also lectured at in-house events for large corporations such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Marcus holds a master’s degree from the University of Augsburg and a degree 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 theFH Salzburg. In April 2017 Marcus was awarded the “European Search Personality of the Year” at the European Search Awards in Krakow.

Amy has built and implemented multichannel digital strategies for a variety of companies of all sizes from start-ups and small businesses to Fortune 500 and global organizations spanning several industry verticals. Her expertise includes e-commerce, lead generation, and localized site-to-store strategies. Amy recently launched Cultivative, a performance marketing agency. When not working, you can find her writing for SearchEngineLand.com and SearchEngineJournal.com, speaking at industry events and talking shop on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/hoffman8.

Christopher Gutknecht is Head of Online Marketing at the Munich eCommerce agency norisk GmbH. He describes himself as a “SEA child” – his heart has been in this area since 2008. After a stopover at intelliAd, he and his team have been supporting shop customers in the area of performance marketing since 2013 and are passionate about developing new tools and innovations in the area of SEA automation so that team and customers can concentrate more on the actual mental work.

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.

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.

Simo Ahava is a recognized expert on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing, and reporting. His main areas of expertise lie with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, and Google has appointed him as a Google Developer Expert in these fields. He is especially interested in the interface between marketing and development, and his main focus is on increasing awareness, skills, and critical thinking around data.

Simo is a partner and co-founder at 8-bit-sheep. He also writes a popular blog on all things Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager development at www.simoahava.com. An experienced speaker and prolific blogger, Simo can be seen and heard in conferences, product forums, support communities, and developer meet-ups alike.

Aleyda Solis is an International SEO Consultant and founder of boutique SEO consultancy Orainti, speaker at +100 conferences in 20 countries in English and Spanish, author of “SEO, Las Claves Esenciales”, host of the YouTube SEO video series, Crawling Mondays; and co-founder of Remoters, a resource site for remote based professionals, organizations and digital nomads.

Aleyda has been awarded as the European Search Personality of the Year in 2018, included in Forbes top 10 online marketing experts to follow, in Hubspot as one of the 59 Female Marketing and Growth Experts You Should be Following, interviewed in publications such as The Huffington Post and contributed for Think With Google.

With an eye for the big picture and a history in increasing online visibility for some of the largest brands on the internet, Laura has focused on integrated search, social and content strategy for Fortune 500 & 1000, enterprise and agencies for well over 10 years. Laura is a marketing exec based in the Silicon Valley and held previous roles that include Technical Marketing Director for Yahoo Media, SEO Specialist for CNET and various consultancies. Laura’s web development background lends a unique technical balance to her perspective on internet marketing, bridging gaps between marketing and development teams in order to provide an integrative, comprehensive solutions to online visibility.

On the side, Laura mountainbikes, snowboards and follows the revolutionary technological innovations in biologically–embedded interfaces (such as Brain-Computer Interfaces
(BCI)) that will change the face of marketing communication in the near future.

Laura is a speaker at marketing and tech conferences around the globe, CEO of SEOgadget’s first US operations in San Francisco, an SEOmoz Associate, and an advisor to various online endeavors.

Marco Frighetto is Head of Product and Senior Account Director at Booster Box, a Performance Agency specialised in Scientific Marketing based in the heart of Tuscany, the sunny Pietrasanta. Bringing together a team of nerds and entrepreneurial marketers, Booster Box has been crafting tech that unleashes PPC performance through data. Marco and his team are working hard to create a better world for every PPC marketer, fully automating all those boring and repetitive procedures. He is deeply in love with hats, mountains & spreadsheets, of course 🙂