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Will Critchlow is CEO of Distilled – a company he founded in 2005 with Duncan Morris. Distilled provides online marketing services from offices in London, New York and Seattle, hosts the SearchLove conference series in the US and UK, produces the popular online training platform DistilledU, and runs the SEO split-testing platform DistilledODN.

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.

An Australian born German resident working on the ground across Africa & Asia, Jes is no stranger to the challenges of international digital marketing. Coming from the Berlin startup scene, she now leads omnichannel marketing strategies in emerging markets for the Swiss media company Ringier. A strong believer in data driven marketing and agile methodologies, she is always testing out new tactics with the help of her team.

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.

Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on mentorship for startups and search consultancy to share his experience in search marketing, comparison shopping und business intelligence. As an independent consultant and angel investor he’s helping portfolio companies of Berlin’s Rocket Internet AG, publishing houses and eCommerce giants worldwide. Before starting his consultancy business, Philipp has been working 6 years at Germany’s market leading comparison search engine Idealo.de

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.

Izzi Smith is an SEO Manager at Sixt rent a car, where she focuses on driving the performance of the US and UK markets, but also helps develop global Sixt rent a car SEO strategies and projects. She’s originally from Manchester in the North West of England but moved to work at Sixt in Munich in 2014.

During her time in SEO, Izzi developed a strong passion for all things Search but especially got invested in Structured Data, UX, local search and technical SEO. Izzi’s projects and experimentations with user-centric content and Structured Data won Sixt the 2018 SEMY Award for ‘Best SEO Campaign’ and her successes and passions led her to begin speaking at conferences in 2018. Since then has been rated the top speaker at several major SEM events and co-runs a weekly Online Marketing edutainment podcast.

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.

Alexander Holl, born in 1964, 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 curriculum vitae of the learned operation manager. In this time Holl was among other things managing director 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.

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.

Dana is President & Partner at Kick Point, where she helps people and teams do better marketing. After working with clients of all sizes for the last 19 years, Dana knows that our industry has an accountability problem. She’s now teaching people how to better communicate how they bring value, and then deliver that value to their organizations. Dana speaks at conferences around the world about reporting and analytics, SEO, and brand building. In her spare time, Dana is the weekly technology columnist on CBC Edmonton AM. She also enjoys drinking fancy beer and yelling at football players.

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.

Max Prin is the Head of Technical SEO at Merkle. The SEO technical team ensures the accuracy, feasibility and scalability of the agency’s technical recommendations. Max supports Merkle’s SEO department by developing SEO best practices, tools and processes through research and testing. Max is also in charge of developing and publishing TechnicalSEO.com.

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.

Michelle Morgan is the Director of Client Services at Clix Marketing. She has honed her PPC skills over the past 8 years in both in-house and agency roles, managing accounts in many different industries and markets. Her passions are around audience targeting and cross-channel dynamics between search and social. She’s a regular industry speaker at events like Pubcon, SMX, HeroConf, and others. In 2018, Michelle won “SEM Speaker of the Year” at the Search Engine Land Awards. She’s also a contributor to Search Engine Journal, Social Media Examiner, WordStream, AdStage, and more. Follow Michelle on Twitter and connect on LinkedIn.

Dave Walker is CEO & Co-Founder of Segmatic, an all-in-one Paid Search platform that delivers averages of 400% increases in ROI. The Segmatic team & platform boast a number of high profile clients including 2K Games, Photobox, T.M. Lewin, Betfair, and Volusion.

Dave is an experienced speaker, having spoken at SMX, HeroConf, & AdWorld on advanced PPC strategies. Before founding Segmatic, he worked for Paddy Power as head of Conversion Optimisation and Advanced Paid Search Automation.

Marcel Prothmann verantwortet bei der Peak Ace AG als „VP Paid Search“ den Bereich der bezahlten Suche und kann auf über zehn Jahre Erfahrung im Onlinemarketing zurückblicken. Anfangs war er für einen Onlineshop tätig, hat aber schnell gemerkt, dass die Sicht auf viele und unterschiedliche Kundenaccounts in einer Agentur spannender und vielfältiger ist. Mit viel Einsatz und Spaß arbeitet Marcel mit seinem Team sehr erfolgreich an großen und kleinen SEA-Accounts und freut sich mit seinen Kunden, wenn die vielen Regler und Schalter zu der gewünschten Performance im Kundenkonto führen. Sein Motto ist: Performance in der Suchmaschinenmarketing ist Fleißarbeit.

Dmytro Tonkikh is a PPC Automation specialist at Flatfy.com and ЛУН.  Flatfy.com provides best-in-class real estate search services in 30 countries around the world.  ЛУН is the parent brand of Flatfy.com, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Dmytro has written posts for SemRush, habr.com and also has a telegram channel with his own Google Ads Scripts tips and tricks. His passion is creating simple, but effective custom Google Ads scripts for campaign management, performance and reporting.