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Adam is a senior SEO consultant trusted by large multinational corporations with combined revenues exceeding $140bn per annum. He specialises in designing and governing SEO acceleration programs for complex corporate structures such as global franchises. Adam has experience empowering internal digital marketing teams to improve organic search ownership and has created new teams from scratch. His proven approach focuses on evidence-based decision-making, workflow integration and scale, resource and cost control, and continuous improvement based on comprehensive auditing and 'test and learn'. Adam also consults on digital marketing operations to help consultancies navigate their business roadmap with greater efficiency and profitability.
Adriaan Boot | Founder | Impactful
Adriaan has founded his agency, Impactful Online Marketing, and helps his clients on their paid marketing campaigns on search and social media platforms. He loves spending and earning money for his clients and making the business impact measurable through Google Analytics. In the past few years Adriaan has worked on the Google Ads campaigns of big online brands like YourSurprise.com, Vergelijk.nl, SnappCar, Daikin and Freelance.nl. This helped in being honored by Google with the Google Premier Partner status.
With over 20 years of extensive experience as a Visual and Product Designer, Airton has successfully led multidisciplinary teams through diverse projects, ranging from websites and graphic pieces to creating immersive culinary experiences. Holding a Ph.D. in Visual Arts, a M.Sc. in Design, and a specialization in UX Design, Airton brings a unique blend of academic knowledge and practical expertise to his work.
Alex Natthaphon Kanjarnavoranun | Consultant in SEO, Digital marketing, and Digital transformation | Foundmatic UK
Alex Natthaphon is a highly experienced SEO expert, digital marketing specialist, and management role in marketing. TechNation UK has endorsed him as the highest-tier Exceptional Leader of UK Global Talent Visa in the Digital Technology category. He has achieved multiple successful career paths in different industries, including Finance, E-commerce, Travel, Education, Automotive, and more. Alex was VP of Digital Campaign Planning & Execution Manager at SCB bank, focusing on digital banking automation and transformation. He is a founder of ABACTODAY, an ed-tech and e-learning platform for students. He was head of SEO and digital marketing at multiple Unicorn startups in Southeast Asia. He has led and provided digital marketing consultants internationally; for instance in Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, US, and UK. Not only online marketing, but he was also AVP Head of Omni-channel Marketing which focused on digital transformation at one of the biggest department stores in Thailand and UK.
Aleyda Solis | International SEO Consultant | Orainti
Aleyda Solis is an SEO consultant and founder of Orainti -a boutique SEO consultancy advising top brands worldwide-, speaker and author. She shares the latest SEO news, resources, tools and jobs in the SEOFOMO newsletter with +30K subscribers, SEO tips in the Crawling Mondays video series, offers a free SEO Learning Roadmap in LearningSEO.io, and hosts SEOFOMO Chat Forum for SEO community and discussions.
Aline Oliveira | Global Head of PPC | Betsson Group
Aline is a Global Head of PPC at Betsson Group, leading search marketing strategy and managing key biddable media channels across European and LATAM markets. With 13 years experience in digital marketing, she has developed deep expertise in user acquisition, revenue growth, and customer-centric strategies. She spent seven years in Asia, holding leadership roles in marketing on both the agency and client sides. In 2019, she transitioned to Europe, where she now specializes in the igaming industry. Aline has a strong background in leading regional teams and expanding into international markets.
Andor Palau | International SEO Consultant |
Andor is an independent international SEO consultant based in Berlin, Germany, and has started his online career back in 2009. Having worked both in-house, as well as on the agency side, he is currently advising online shops, classifiers, marketplaces, and other companies regarding international organic growth strategies as well as technical SEO issues as an independent SEO consultant. He is former Head of SEO at Peak Ace, where he was responsible for SEO and managed a 20+ people team of SEO consultants and editors. Before joining the agency side, Andor was In-house SEO for a top-3 comparison portal in highly competitive verticals such as insurance, power, and telco. Andor’s core expertise is strategic SEO as well as technical SEO, covering topics such as crawlability, indexing management, migrations, and site structure optimization. He is a lecturer at the afs Akademie in Germany, which has made it its mission to offer quality education and training in the field of SEO
Andy Frobisher | SEO Consultant |
Andy Frobisher is a freelance SEO consultant and former head of SEO at Digitaloft, an award winning SEO & Digital PR agency. With 10 years agency experience helping companies with their online marketing across multiple disciplines including branding, web design/UX, web development, SEO and more. A former BrightonSEO speaker, Andy has worked with over 75 online businesses across 10 years with a focus on goal driven organic search success. Andy has managed SEO projects that have won various awards including best use of content marketing at the 2022 European search awards.
Andy Laird | Senior Advertising Executive | Microsoft Advertising
A former Head of Performance Marketing with over 15 years of experience in the industry, Andy is a seasoned digital marketing strategist who has overseen £500m+ in paid search investment in the UK. As a judge at the prestigious European Search Awards, Andy brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into the latest trends and best practices in digital marketing. His expertise has helped numerous brands achieve remarkable success in the UK, Europe and Global markets.
Anna Luise Guleke | SEO Expert | Auto 1 Group
Fueled by her passion for solving digital puzzles and building scalable solutions, Luise combines her technical expertise and product-led approach to drive organic traffic and revenue. At AUTO1 Group, Luise has led the SEO strategy for C2B and E-Commerce platforms across multiple European markets, delivering results through leveraging data, automation processes and a focus on business outcome.
Anna Oshkalo | Senior team lead marketing and business development | Emma - The Sleep Company
Anna is a digital marketer with over ten years of experience in competitive segments like technology, gaming and retail. Having lived in Russia and the Netherlands, Anna is currently based in Sweden and works as Performance Marketing Lead at Ericsson. In this role she is mainly focused on global SEO and PPC performance, developing and modernizing Ericsson’s martech stack, creating global processes and coaching dozens of colleagues in marketing teams around the globe.
Aoife McIlraith | Global Search & Digital Marketing Consultant |
Aoife McIlraith is an award-winning global search consultant. Named one of the “Top 20 Women making the biggest impact in Marketing Tech” in 2019. She provides consultancy to brands on international SEO, multilingual marketing and strategies, digital globalization and transformations. She is currently partnering with global brands to define multilingual voice search and digital assistant marketing strategies. She has spoken at numerous international marketing conferences covering most recently multilingual voice search. International conferences including 3XE, SEMRush Live Prague, DMEXCO, Sirius Decisions London, Localization World Beijing and Tokyo and eConsultancy Singapore. Aoife holds first class honours post graduate degrees in web science technologies and digital marketing. As a qualified programmer and developer, she provides a powerful combination and understanding of both technology and digital marketing to global brand stakeholders. Aoife has worked in marketing, technology, public relations and communications positions in Ireland and San Francisco.
Arnout Hellemans | SEO Consultant |
Arnout Hellemans has been working as a freelance SEO and PPC consultant for over more than a decade. He has consulted for large multinational corporations like LeasePlan as well as big insurance and financial companies like the RBS and Achmea. Apart from that he has been heavily involved in the marketing strategy for babysitting platform Sitly. He has also been training and speaking at events like SMX, Ungagged, InOrbit and Digital Elite Day. He works all over Europe but his homebase is Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Find him on twitter at @hellemans.
Asaad Dookhy | Global SEO Program Manager | .
Asaad has 16 years of SEO experience at Amazon, Unilever, Nissan, Decathlon, and Ferrero. He is focused on driving results and making an impact at large global companies
Ash Nallawalla | Fractional SEO |
Ash Nallawalla is an Australian SEO consultant and the author of three SEO books (the first, "Accidental SEO Manager," is in its Second Edition). He has worked for major household brands and multinational, multilingual websites. He specialised in Finance, ecommerce, banking, and High-tech industries. He is a regular conference speaker and podcast guest. He is the Local Search forum moderator on Webmasterworld.
Ashley Hannaway | SEM Consultant |
Ashley has over 9 years of multi-channel digital marketing experience, with a focus on paid search and paid social. Throughout her career, she has been able to learn from both agency and in-house work. She has helped multiple brands grow their paid digital efforts, and exceed goals through well-developed growth strategies and a keen attention to detail.
Beckie Brown | Head of Performance Marketing | OVO
With over 12 years experience in PPC and SEO, Beckie has worked both agency and client side with a range of well-known brands. She is currently leading the Performance Marketing function at OVO including paid and organic search strategy across retail energy and decarbonisation solutions - EV, solar and heat.
Bill Hartzer | CEO | Hartzer Consulting
Bill Hartzer is an independent SEO Consultant. He relies on his 20 years of direct SEO experience to provide technical SEO audits of websites, as well as technical link audits and link cleanups of websites. Mr. Hartzer is known worldwide for his research on the topic of search engine optimization and the New gTLD domain names, as well as Dot Brand domain names. He provides research and marketing of white papers and case studies related to the New gTLDs, as well as consulting related to domain migrations.
Bill Hunt | Founder & Global Digital strategist | Back Azimuth Consulting
Bill is the President of Back Azimuth Consulting, which focuses on helping companies improve their Global Digital Marketing Strategies. Bill has extensive experience in multiple verticals uncovering missed opportunities and accelerating growth by implementing strategic centers of excellence maximize ecommerce programs at multinational corporations. Bill is the co-author of the best selling book "Search Engine Marketing, Inc." Driving Traffic to Your Companies Web Site from IBM Pres. This book has been adapted into the best practice guide for many global companies.
Bill Scully | Digital Marketing and International Search Engine Strategist | Digital Marketing Fuel, LLC
Bill Scully has over 15 years of consulting, speaking, and real-life business experience driving qualified web traffic, and getting visitors to take action. Bill has served as a Director of Digital Marketing and SEO Expert for Siemens AG, and as Director for Center of Excellence Digital Marketing for Draeger Medical. Bill has been speaking at search conferences since 2008 and received the Conductor Searchlight Innovative Implementation Award. For the last 6 years he has been helping enterprise and international companies providing web strategies, technical SEO and HREFLANG implementation to significantly improving web presence, generate valuable traffic and improve internet leads as the owner and SEO strategist at Digital Marketing Fuel, LLC.
Carla Marshall | Head of Content Marketing | vidIQ
Carla Marshall is the Head of Content Marketing at YouTube analytics platform vidIQ. She has 10+ years of experience in video marketing, social media management, content marketing, DRM, and SEO. She was previously Editor in Chief at ReelSEO.com and TubularInsights.com, and the Community Manager for the ReelSEO YouTube Channel. She is YouTube Certified and a judge for the UK, US, and EU Search Awards.
Carlos Ortega | Technical SEO consultant |
Carlos Ortega is a freelance technical SEO consultant, co-founder of the digital marketing event Digital Jam, Country Manager of the SEObox tool, and the winner of the 'Best SEO in Barcelona' award presented by Clinic SEO in 2018. He is also part of the faculty in several master's programs on web positioning and has given talks and training sessions at numerous events, podcasts, and companies. After 10 years in the SEO industry, where he has worked in agencies and in-house positions, he currently works with major clients as a freelance consultant.
Carmen Domínguez Rodríguez | Director of Organic Growth | Welltech
Carmen Domínguez Rodríguez is the Director of Organic Growth at Welltech – a global IT company specialising in Health & Fitness mobile apps that help millions of people stay active and healthy. Carmen has worked in digital marketing since 2015, gaining experience both at agencies and in-house, including roles such as Head of International SEO and Content at The Hut Group. In her free time, Carmen is dedicated to mentoring women, helping them grow in SEO, and she can talk about eCommerce SEO and Google’s Natural Language Processing for hours. A Spanish expat living in Leeds, Carmen loves deep conversations, rock concerts, European films, and coffee – and we’ve learned she would do just about anything for a good espresso!
Carolina Vicente | Brand & Marketing Director | Trainline
Carolina is an experienced Marketing and Product leader with over 20 years of experience driving strategic growth for global brands, scale-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. Currently Brand & Marketing Director at Trainline, Carolina leads innovative marketing strategies to enhance brand presence and deliver measurable business impact across multiple markets. A former senior executive at Google, HelloFresh, and ASOS, Carolina has spearheaded European market expansions, and scaled high-performing teams. Carolina is passionate about data-driven decision-making, combining creativity and analytics to shape impactful marketing strategies.
With over a decade in digital marketing, Catia leads Talkdesk's Performance Marketing team, driving impressive growth across multiple paid media channels. Known for her customer-obsessed approach, dynamic mentorship and active volunteering, Catia fuels continuous innovation and success.
Chaitanya Patel | Head of Performance Marketing | Allies of Skin
Adtech, Martech and Marketing Leader with 18 Years of Experience across e-Commerce, Fintech, Edtech, Proptech, and Web 3.0
Ciara Serrano Temprado | Head of Online Marketing | Urlaubstracker
After graduating from Journalism, Ciara changed her warm hometown, Barcelona, for the vibrant and underground Berlin more than 10 years ago. During this time in the German capital, she has been the SEO expert in different companies in a big range of industries such as travel, ecommerce, music and cars. Her roles have usually involved leading other SEOs and Marketing experts, as well as expanding her knowledge and expertise in other online marketing channels. Currently she is working as Head of Online Marketing at Urlaubstracker.
Clara Soteras | SEO for News Publishers Consultant and Head of Innovation and Digital Strategy | AMIC
Clara Soteras is an SEO for News Publishers and Digital Strategy Consultant. She is currently Head of Innovation and Digital Strategy at AMIC, a local media association with more than 600 members, focused on new projects that incorporate artificial intelligence. Her areas of expertise include attracting new audiences, Google Discover, content planning, SEO functions in a newsroom and business-focused editorial product. She is also an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and teaches SEO for News at other business schools. She is part of the judging panel for different search awards such as the Global, European or UK Search Awards and has been a member and judge for the Online News Association. She has been the Director of SEO and Product at El Nacional, a Spanish media company, and SEO Manager at betevé, a local TV channel in Barcelona. She actively participates in SEO, AI, journalism and media conferences, giving presentations, round tables and debates with other experts in the sector. She is part of the #MujeresEnSEO community and the SEO association in Catalan, as well as a member of Google Product Experts, where she shares knowledge with other professionals.
Clare Dyckhoff | Freelance Writer, Content & SEO Strategist |
Clare has worked in Digital for over a decade in roles specialising in SEO Content and heading up the SEO team at a leading Ed-Tech company. She now works for herself as a Organic Growth Specialist and Writer (B2B, B2C) on clients spanning global marketplaces, professional services, B2B, and Fashion. Having worked at an award-winning media agency and a number of startups, she has worked on optimised content campaigns across most industries and loves how words are at the heart of connecting with people. She has judged on numerous panels, given guest lectures and talks on SEO and PR and is thrilled to be returning to the EU Search Awards judging panel this year.
Colin Osborne | SEO Manager | TalkTalk
Colin is an SEO specialist with over 15 years of digital marketing experience and is currently the SEO Lead at TalkTalk Group. His extensive background includes working with prominent brands such as Thomas Cook Airlines and N Brown, as well as gaining valuable experience at a GroupM agency. Colin excels in developing and deploying successful SEO strategies tailored to various sectors and is also skilled in training colleagues in SEO best practices to bolster their expertise and drive team success.
Dan Barker | Consultant |
Dan has worked in ecommerce for around 20 years. He has worked within companies in ecommerce functions, up to CMO level, has worked on projects for more than 100 ecommerce businesses as a consultant, and has co-owned a couple of ecommerce businesses with millions of visitors and hundreds of millions of turnover between them over the years. He enjoys the opportunity that ecommerce has brought and can bring to people all over the world.
Daniel Morehead | Lead SEO | Channel 4
Dan has been in the SEO industry for over a decade and is now leading SEO at Channel 4 as the legacy public service broadcaster transitions into the streaming age. Previously at the BBC, he specialises in digital transformation and technical SEO for enterprise websites. Former SEO speaking engagements have included BrightonSEO and Friends of Search in Amsterdam.
Daniel Saunders | Head of Performance Marketing | Evergreen Finance London
I've worked in Digital for 18 years. Within Digital marketing I work closely with the directors and heads of service to identify new business opportunities and Strategies. Having an in-depth understanding of different markets and competitors in the area to maintain a competitive advantage which is used to work alongside key stakeholders in managing the translation of the business strategy into clear plans. Proactively researching markets, competitors within different regions and establishing ways to develop a competitive advantage within our strategies. Within Stanley Black and Decker, I am a catalyst for change, I plan and execute UK market E-commerce and digital marketing activities to increase sales, grow online channels, and grow new and existing online customers managing substantial 6 figures budgets over many different groups. As an international keynote speaker in the Digital sphere, I inspire and lead a large team of specialists, drive the delivery of brilliant digital products and services, mentoring at levels from executives to C suite. I utilize analytics and insight tools to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple customer touch points. Working with trade marketing teams to analyse product categories and make appropriate product mix recommendations and effectively contributes to SEO, PPC, UX and CRO. I have built, nurtured and lead a diverse, multidisciplinary team to deliver digital transformation across the Stanley Black and Decker group. Defining the required digital capabilities across our people, their processes, and the technology we use. With Stanley Black and Decker being a multinational corporation, I make myself a visible leader by holding regular lectures and Q and A sessions with entry executives all the way up to C suite teams.
Daniela Leitner | Independent SEO Consultant & Speaker |
Dani Leitner is a Zürich-based independent SEO Consultant with a diverse background in IT project management and civil engineering. Originally from Austria, she specializes in the German market, helping international and local companies improve their online visibility in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Dani’s expertise spans years of agency experience, working with clients across various industries before fully transitioning to freelance consulting. Passionate about developing tailored SEO strategies that align with her clients’ business models, Dani is also an active member of the SEO community, contributing regularly to industry discussions and newsletters. She recently expanded her influence as a speaker, presenting at major events like BrightonSEO and ISS Barcelona.
Daragh Nener-Lally | SEO Consultant |
Daragh has more than a decade of industry experience encompassing agency, in-house and independent work for both direct-to-consumer and B2B brands. His core speciality is in international SEO and he has worked with companies such as 888sport, AON, SilkFred and other brands in Europe, the US and Israel, as well as collaborating with agencies as an external advisor, in particular on projects relating to brand SERP and the Google Knowledge Graph. Daragh lives in Tel Aviv, though originally comes from Ireland, where he had a brief stint in television before finding his way to the search industry. He's also spent time living in London and Northern Germany. He’s an advocate for a diverse and inclusive SEO community and is a member of the LGBTQ+ Digital Marketers group. You can read more about Daragh’s experience at dnlseo.com, where you can also connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Dateme Tamuno | Head of Digital Marketing | Londonist DMC
Dateme is a digital marketer with experience running organic and paid search campaigns for companies across several verticals. Currently, he is the head of digital marketing for a student accommodation agency in London. A regular speaker at BrightonSEO and often challenging search marketers to create a deeper understanding of the user intent that transcends the informational, navigational, commercial, and transactional classifications. He has completed ten marathons and has a goal of running 50 before he turns 50.
David Carrasco | SEO Consultant |
David Carrasco embarked on his SEO journey when the field was still emerging, with no courses or masters available, learning through the trenches by exploring, experimenting, and innovating. With over a decade of experience in SEO, he has participated in an extensive range of projects, offering support to a multitude of clients. In recent years, he served as the CEO of a Spanish PR and link-building tool, a company he founded and later sold. Currently, he works as a freelance SEO Product Manager, leveraging his knowledge and experience in web positioning, growth, development, and business strategies. As a prolific content creator, he engages in producing audio, video, and written content. This not only provides a platform to connect with new people but also fuels his ongoing journey of learning and discovery. Why not connect?
Davina Lines | Managing Director | Mixing Digital
Davina Lines is Managing Director of Mixing Digital and the Ecommerce Club. She brings a wealth of knowledge and a big black book of digital contacts to ensure Mixing Digital’s event management services are of the highest standard. Davina co-founded Netimperative in 1999 and became Managing Director in 2002, stewarding the brand into new product launches and creating one of the most successful events programmes in the digital marketing industry. In the mid 90s Davina cut her digital teeth on New Media Age (now Econsultancy), forming part of the founding team and was responsible for the commercial development of the magazine and its early events from launch in May 1995 to 1999. In recent years Davina launched an ecommerce peer-to-peer community, the Ecommerce Club, which runs regular events in London and Manchester on topics relevant to the retail community.
Dawn Anderson | Founder | Bertey Ltd
Dawn Anderson lectures on search and digital marketing strategy at Manchester Metropolitan University, is an international conference speaker (UK, US, AUS, IT), a trainer, and runs a digital marketing and international SEO consultancy agency, Bertey based in Manchester, UK. Dawn has spoken at some of the leading UK and global search marketing conferences, including Pubcon (Las Vegas and Florida), SASCON (Manchester, UK), European Search Conference (Liverpool, UK), Search Leeds (Leeds, UK), Brighton SEO (Brighton, UK), SMX London (London, UK), SMX East (San Jose, US), Ungagged London (London, UK), Ungagged Las Vegas (Las Vegas, US), MozCon (Seattle, US) and State of Search (Dallas, US). Dawn has also spoken at conference across Europe and as far afield as Australia. Dawn has been in digital marketing and SEO for 12+ years and works with leading brands providing digital marketing and SEO strategy and consultancy across a number of sectors. She is a Northern Digital, UK, EU and US Search Awards Judge. Dawn also contributes to leading search marketing industry publications such as Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, The SEMPost, State of Digital and Smart Insights. Dawn also supervises Masters dissertation students undertaking their MSc in digital marketing strategy at Manchester Metropolitan University and also lectures and undertakes workshops on search and marketing analytics teaching International Fashion Promotion students at Manchester Fashion Institute
Dennie Pasman is an expert in search marketing with a deep specialization in Technical SEO. At Vsee Search Marketing, he enhances brand visibility and growth by integrating advanced technologies like ChatGPT into business strategies. Dennie's extensive experience includes speaking at industry events, where he explores the practical applications of emerging technologies. His insightful presentations combine theoretical knowledge with real-world examples, inspiring innovation and efficiency in digital marketing. As a judge, Dennie brings a track record of excellence and a visionary approach to these awards.
Dewi Nawasari | Torque | Senior Director of Consulting
Dewi currently leads the organic growth strategy at Gumtree and Motors.co.uk, two prominent challengers in the online classifieds industry. An advocate of getting the basics right, Dewi has extensive experience building technical and content strategies, from local to international, spanning various industries. During her previous tenure at Auto Trader UK, the brand has won the UK Search Awards. The success continued when she headed up the European SEO for Monster Worldwide, where the brand won the European Search Awards Best SEO Campaign. Keen to commit some of her time to set up the gold standards in the industry, she is now joining the search awards judging panel for the first time.
Divya Prasath Ravikumar | SEO Manager | The Social Hub
Prasath is an accomplished all-round marketeer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience driving growth across diverse industries. His expertise spans web project management, product development, UX, CRO, and SEO. He is currently working as Digital marketing Manager at the hybrid hospitality brand The Social Hub.
Dr Aleksej Heinze | KEDGE Business School | Associate Professor
His area of expertise is the use of digital marketing channels in an international context. This work is compiled in the collaborative book - Digital and Social Media Marketing: A Results-Driven Approach, which includes contributions from 20 authors from 6 European countries. Aleksej has a breadth of experience of leading multinational project teams, most recently, on the Joint European Masters in Digital and Social Media Marketing (JEMSS) project. JEMSS aims to develop a series of resources in Digital and Social Media Marketing http://mastersindigitalmarketing.org including the #passion4digital community.
Emily Gant | Technical SEO Manager | Inkitt
Emily Gant specialises in product-led SEO for scaling startups. Previously, she’s driven revenue through eCommerce SEO for large brands like FILA, Discount Tire, and Stanford Healthcare. Internationally, she scaled a series B startup to acquisition by Gartner Digital Markets, and she currently works in the technology sector in SEO & Organic Growth for Inkitt, a Series C digital publisher revolutionizing the entertainment industry based in San Francisco. Additionally, she is a member of the judging panel for the Global Search Awards and is presenting at SMX Munich 2025.
Gemma Fontane | Co-founder & Managing Partner | Orvit digital
Gemma Fontané is co-founder and managing partner of Orvit Digital. With her company, she leads strategies for B2B and Ecommerce companies to help them generate business through digital channels. In the last year, as a public speaker, Gemma has spoken at conferences in different countries such as Friends of Search in Amsterdam, Search Y Paris in Paris, BrightonSEO in Brighton or at the International Search Summit in Barcelona. She also collaborates with different industry media such as Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal.
Gerry White | SEO Consultant | Dergal
Gerry White has been in the industry for 20+ years, with a background in development he transitioned to technical marketing leading on SEO, analytics and digital growth strategies for companies, agencies, the government and corporations such as the BBC. In the past few years Gerry has spoken at conferences around the globe including Paris, Germany, USA and of course the UK. Gerry was the Technical SEO Lead for Just Eat a FTSE 100 company in 12 markets as well as consulting for other e-commerce brands. Gerry was the SEO Director for Rise at Seven from 2020 to 2021 when they grew from 15 to 115 people before returning client side as the head of SEO at Oda an international supermarket.
Gianluca Fiorelli | | SEO & Web Marketing Strategist
Gianluca Fiorelli started working as an SEO in 2004, after previously having worked in the Italian TV and Audiovisual industry. Amongst the best known International and Strategic SEO consultants, Gianluca helps and helped brands like Iberostar.com, Glassdoor, Outsystems, ActivTrades, Magoosh, Go Overseas and many others to reach the sought success in organic search. Gianluca, who is also the founder of The Inbounder digital marketing conference, spoke at international events like Mozcon, BrightonSEO, SMX, and PubCon. You can find Gianluca on Twitter as gfiorelli1 (https://twitter.com/gfiorelli1) or contacting him at https://www.iloveseo.net.
Grant Simmons | SEO Strategist | Simmonet Marketing
Grant is a Senior SEO Strategist with over 30 years in marketing with an emphasis on digital channels and focus on collaborative SEO consulting, analytics, content, and performance-based successes for Fortune 500 enterprises, local, multi-location, national, and international companies and organizations. Grant’s experience spans real estate, healthcare, addiction, e-commerce, senior care, technology, travel, and employment verticals, often sharing his experience and insights in vertical-industry podcasts, webinars, and publications, and as a speaker at SEO & marketing conferences worldwide, including; Pubcon, LRTCon, Chiang Mai SEO, Brighton SEO. SMX, and more.
Hannah Bryce | Head of SEO | Attraction Tickets
Hannah has 15 years of experience leading SEO strategies and specialises in SEO for ecommerce across a wide range of industries. She’s worked agency-side and in-house across brands including Holland & Barrett, Gymshark, Bensons for Beds and AttractionTickets.com
Ioana Văcărașu | Co-founder & CGO | Dyver
With over a decade in SEO and content strategy, Ioana built and led Romania’s first dedicated SEO content department, growing it into a powerhouse of 30+ specialists and creating scalable systems that drove brand growth & shaped industry leaders. Many of those she mentored now lead SEO and content teams at top agencies and global brands—an achievement she values just as much as the campaigns and strategies that made it possible. She later collaborated with Skillab mentoring 40+ professionals through a dedicated SEO Specialist Course, helping them transition and thrive in the industry. As part of the leadership behind Upswing’s patented SEO tools and SEOmonitor.com, Ioana helped develop data-driven solutions like the Industry Report and Contero.io—tools that became essential for search performance analysis in eCommerce and content marketing. She managed content strategies for 50+ brands, with several campaigns earning industry recognition for impact and innovation. Throughout her career, she has soaked up every opportunity to explore, refine and push innovation in content scalability, search behavior and data-driven automation. Now, as Co-founder & CGO of Dyver.ai, she is channeling her experience into building an AI-native product content automation tool that helps eCommerce scale ridiculously fast, shaping how product data drives discovery across search, marketplaces and beyond.
Jaime Hill | Ecommerce Director | ex Oak Furnitureland, Hurtigruten & Monsoon Accessorize
Jaime has over two decades of experience as a Marketing & Ecommerce professional with a successful track record leading teams and developing strategy to transform organisations’ digital capability and channels to market. She has had success in roles at brands including Avis, Barclays, Dairy Crest and Oak Furnitureland, and across a wide range of B2B and B2C vertical markets. Most recently, Jaime was Interim Head of Ecommerce & Trading at Monsoon. A graduate of the Institute of Digital Marketing and qualified Executive Business Coach, Jaime's professional passion is for making life easier for the customer at every touch point.
Janna Pugh | SEO Manager | Five9
Janna Pugh is a SEO Manager with a history of agency and in-house work. She has recently been nationally recognized as the Industry Rising Star in Conductor's 2022 C2 Summit and regularly speaks with college classes about the essentials of organic marketing. With her passion for SEO, she knows firsthand how to make the smallest and largest websites succeed organically. Her areas of focus specialize in enterprise SEO, with scalability and automation for both small and large SEO teams. Her varied approach to SEO combines on-site content with off-site brand management. In her free time, she loves trying out new recipes and reading mystery novels.'
Jo O'Reilly | Freelance Digital PR Consultant |
Jo O’Reilly is a Freelance digital PR consultant based in Chester. She has been working in Digital PR for 6 years and before going freelance had worked both in-house and agency side. Before pivoting to Digital PR she worked as a journalist. She is fascinated with all things digital pr, especially reactive pr and newsjacking.
João Filipe Pereira | Senior Group SEO & Growth Marketing Manager | Eventbrite
Joao Filipe Pereira is a Senior SEO & Marketing Growth Manager at Eventbrite, with a strong background in driving global SEO and content strategies. With experience at TripAdvisor, EF Education First, and Hostelworld, Joao Filipe Pereira has led initiatives in content marketing, SEO, and digital PR, optimizing search visibility and conversion rates. His expertise lies in developing data-driven marketing strategies, managing cross-functional teams, and executing impactful outreach campaigns. Additionally, with five years as editor-in-chief in Portuguese media, Joao Filipe Pereira brings a unique blend of editorial and technical SEO expertise to the field.
Jon Myers | SEO Consultant | Ascending Media
Jon is an experienced leader within the Digital Marketplace with over 19 years’ experience and has demonstrated dedication to the industry over his career which has been recognised when he was awarded Search Personality of the Year 2017 at the UK Search Awards and also voted into Europe’s Top50 Performance Markets 2017. He has worked in senior roles for large agencies, publisher-side with Yahoo, and more recently the Ad Technology space as VP and MD EMEA of Marin Software before joining DeepCrawl.and then setting up his own company Ascending Media.He has experience in Paid Search since its inception, and has also worked heavily in SEO, Display and Paid Social over the years. This broad range has given Jon a strong understanding of all sides of the market, a sharp business knowledge and skill set, and many connections across EMEA and the US who recognise him for his experience and thought leadership within the online advertising industry.Jon is extremely active in the Search community, and is most likely to be found moderating, speaking and sharing his knowledge at conferences, webinars and events across the world. He also frequently acts as a judge for awards in the industry, including the UK Search Awards, European Search Awards, US Search Awards and Performance Marketing Awards to name a few.
Jonathan Moore | Director | Jonathan Moore Consultancy Limited
Jonathan Moore is a technical SEO and analytics consultant with over 15 years of experience. He enjoys using data to solve problems and helps clients in the ecommerce space.
Jonathan Jones | SVP, Strategy | Forbes
Jonathan Jones is the VP of SEO at Forbes and has over 13 years working in the SEO industry. He is the co-author of the book ‘Mastering In-House SEO’ alongside 26 other brilliant co-authors. He has a computer science background, runs his own online businesses, and is an entrepreneurial mindset. Prior to working at Forbes, Jonathan worked at MoneySuperMarket, where the team won ‘Best In-House Team’ three times at the EU Search Awards in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and also at the UK Search Awards in 2015. Prior to this, he has worked on major national and international sites such as Toyota, NatWest/RBS, John Freida, Sage, Unum, & more. To get in touch with Jonathan, go to MrJonathanJones.com.
Josep M Felip | SEO Manager | GP Strategies
Josep M Felip is an SEO specialist merging 15 years of search mastery with AI innovation. At GP Strategies, he develops data-driven strategies that expand organic visibility and drive business growth. His unique blend of technical SEO expertise, strategic thinking, and artificial intelligence helps global brands stay ahead in the ever-evolving search landscape. As a judge for the European Search Awards, Josep helps set the standard for search excellence.
Joshua Clare-Flagg | Web Performance Consultant |
Joshua Clare-Flagg is an award-winning developer with over 15 years of experience specialising in web performance. Passionate about optimising websites for speed and user experience, he has helped numerous companies achieve faster load times and improved conversion rates. Joshua is dedicated to sharing insights and strategies for delivering high-performance sites that drive results.
Juan Vargas | Director of organic growth | CARWOW
With more than 15 years of experience leading SEO teams both agency and client side and a solid academic foundation, Juan has delivered demonstrable commercial success across a wide range of industries. Currently, he’s global SEO director at FARFETCH a luxury fashion marketplace, and has previously led the organic performance teams at Compare the Market and MoneySupermarket in the personal finance and insurance vertical in the UK. Agency side, Juan oversaw several clients including Mercedes Benz, Fiat, Masserati, BT, Barclays, the Merlin entertainment group, intuit, and the largest global consumer electronics retailer. He’s been listed by the Drum as one of the top 50 individuals in search in the UK, and has won accolades at the UK, European, Global search awards, as well as the DMAs.
Judith Lewis | Founder and CEO | Decabbit Consultancy
Judith Lewis is the founder of the deCabbit Consultancy specialising in integrated digital marketing consultancy and execution. She is a specialist integrated online marketer with skills in SEO, PPC, and Social Media Marketing as well as other digital marketing techniques. She has been doing SEO since before it had a name and has worked both in-house and agency-side. She has judged both UK & EU Search Awards, is a founding everywoman Modern Muse and is the coordinator for London Girl Geek Dinners. Having both an in-house and agency background, her clients have included Google, Virgin, NSPCC, Zopa, Slendertone, the Guggenheim, SAP, Amadeus, Blue Cross, & ShareThis. She works from planning through to execution, integrating her digital expertise through research & analysis, design & build through to deployment. Judith writes for the SEO Chicks and Mostly About Chocolate as well as the Huffington Post. She speaks at various conferences around the world and is passionate about teaching and helping businesses large and small (as well as chocolate).
Julia-Carolin Zeng | Freelance SEO Consultant |
Julia started her career in SEO 5 years ago in the online gambling industry working for an affiliate company. She has since worked in different industries and is a freelance SEO consultant since 2019. She specialises in international SEO and works mostly with B2B SaaS companies in Europe and the US. Her educational background is in linguistics and cultural anthropology, and she can communicate in French, Spanish and Italian, in addition to her mother tongue German. Julia is usually based in London, but she loves travelling and the digital nomad lifestyle.
Karol Soja | SEO Consultant & Freelancer | Karol Soja
Karol Soja is an experienced SEO consultant and freelancer with over 12 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has gained a comprehensive understanding of SEO from various perspectives, having worked in startup, SEO agency, in-house teams, and as a Head of SEO in an agency working with the largest Polish brands. After a decade, he made the decision to venture out as an independent consultant and freelancer. His areas of specialization include e-commerce, where he excels in traffic scaling and international expansion. Additionally, Karol also works with publishers, acquiring traffic from Google News and Google Discover. Privately, Karol is an advocate for remote work, allowing him to combine his interests with travels to different parts of the world. He is also an active athlete, regularly participating in long-distance running and triathlons. As a judge for the European Search Awards, Karol brings a wealth of knowledge, a passion for SEO, and a commitment to recognizing excellence within the industry.
Katarzyna Dębczak | SEO Consultant and Team Leader | Semcore
Katarzyna has been involved in the SEO industry since 2018. Since then, she has been gaining experience in optimizing small service websites and large e-commerce platforms across various sectors. She keeps up with new trends and technologies and continually expands her knowledge in the broad field of digital marketing. Currently, she is engaged in consulting and holds the position of SEO Team Leader at Semcore.
Krzysztof Marzec | Managing Director, Certified Trainer Google AdWords | Deva Group
CEO at DevaGroup, an agency with the title of Google Premier Partner and Google Rising Star. SEO, Google Ads & Analytics Trainer. Trained the best agencies and media houses directly for Google. Author of two books, over hundreds of articles and highly rated online courses. Lecturer at Jagiellonian University and the Tischner European University. Speaker at dozens of conferences, winning best presentation and audience awards. Founder and organizer of semKRK, barcamp gathering up to 500 participants of the SEM industry. He worked for such brands as Allegro.pl, Neo24, Shoper.pl, Conrad.pl, Interia.pl, RMF Group and Bauer Publishing. 2020 winner at Ads & Analytics day at the largest marketing event in Poland - I Love Marketing conference.
Limor Barenholtz | SEO Director | Similarweb
Limor is the SEO Director at Similarweb, and has been practicing SEO for 20 years now. Limor specializes in all aspects of Technical SEO - From JavaScript SEO & rendering, through mobile & multi-device optimization, all the way to page experience metrics - She loves the challenges it presents, clean codes makes her smile & creating scalable SEO strategies makes her happy. As the former Head of SEO at McCann Tel Aviv, Limor has vast experience in both local & international SEO for major brands & publishers, as well as in planning & integration with multi-channel campaigns. Limor is a speaker at BrightonSEO, co-author of the "In-house SEO Book", and a judge at The Drum Awards When she's not doing SEO, Limor loves playing Poker and handball, listening to music, and being with her baby twins - Naomi & Maayan.
Lukasz Rogala | SEO Consultant |
Lukasz Zelezny | Founder, SEO Consultant | https://seo.london/
Lukasz Zelezny, UK Search Awards judge, Top10 UK Social Media influencer and former director of organic performance at uSwitch / Zoopla. Currently is working as an independent SEO Consultant helping in organic traffic acquisition, technical SEO and content marketing. Lukasz started his career in 2005 and has since been responsible for the organic performance of a number of companies including HomeAway, Thomson Reuters, The Digital Property Group, Fleetway Travel, uSwitch, Zoopla. Each year Lukasz is speaking at many SEO and social media conferences. He was a speaker at ClickZ Shanghai China, ClickZ Jakarta Indonesia, SiMGA Malta, SES London as well as Marketing Festival in Brno, Brighton SEO in Brighton and UnGagged in London. Every year he is actively participating in 10 to 20 events as an SEO/Social Media keynote speaker. Additionally, he organizes workshops and meetups where he is sharing tips around SEO, Social Media and Analytics.
Maor Galmor | Growth Marketing Director | University of the People
Mariam Abu Bakr | Global SEO Manager | Philips DA (Versuni)
Mariam Abubakr is an adept SEO professional based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, presently assumes the role of Global SEO Manager at Philips DA (Versuni). While she currently navigates territories on a global scale, Mariam's roots and early triumphs blossomed in the vibrant MENA region, where she led impactful SEO projects for renowned clients like Jaguar Land Rover, General Electric, Bosch, Accor Hotels, and Virgin Megastore. Her expertise spans various industries, with a proven track record of successful SEO strategies. Mariam's passion for SEO prompted her to explore new horizons, making her a valuable asset in recognizing and celebrating the outstanding achievements of the European search community.
Matthew Kohli | SEO Consultant |
Matt holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Digital Marketing from the University of Derby and is CMI and CIM accredited. He began his career in Technical SEO, working with award-winning agencies and in-house brands. Now, he leads a talented team at Fortitude Marketing, delivering results across SEO, PPC, CRO, and Branding. Matt has been featured on industry podcasts and regularly attends SEO events
Meriem Nacer | Paid Media Consultant, Coach & Trainer |
Meriem Nacer, founder of 4M Digital Consulting Ltd, brings 14+ years of expertise in crafting high-impact PPC, Display, YouTube, and Paid Social strategies. A Google and Microsoft Ads-certified powerhouse, she’s managed budgets topping £150M annually, driving growth for global brands across retail, luxury, travel, and finance. A published author and PTLLS-accredited trainer, Meriem combines data-driven insights with creativity to deliver award-winning results, making her a sought-after leader in digital marketing.
Michael Bonfils | Group CEO | Digital International Group
Michael Bonfils is the Founder and CEO of SEM International. Which is an award winning global digital marketing management firm with 32 worldwide offices specializing in multilingual PPC, SEO, Social Media, Global eCommerce, Content and Localization. His company’s services are tailored to assist global advertising agencies and multinational corporations with their digital marketing strategies around the world. He has been in the industry since 1997, has been a frequent speaker at global conferences, is a recognized industry award judge and past/present board member for a number of digital marketing organizations.
Michael Emiliani | Senior Marketing Director | Freight Right Global Logistics
Mike is a seasoned digital marketing expert with a decade of experience in PPC and digital media. His passion lies in developing and growing businesses through comprehensive, integrated digital media campaigns. His ability to draw on knowledge and experiences from a wide range of challenges from his time in-house, agency-side and as a consultant has given him a unique depth and breadth to solving complex problems in PPC and broadly digital marketing. Mike has shared insights as a contributing writer and speaker at events. His extensive knowledge has also earned her the distinction of being a featured subject matter expert at Endicott College in Massachusetts, a contributor to industry blogs and recipient of the 2018 Interactive Marketing Award.
Michele Tommasi | Senior Paid Media Manager | Tempcover
With over a decade of experience in digital advertising and performance marketing, Michele has worked with leading global agencies and brands, including GTB and Ford, while also driving success for SMEs and established businesses across a vast range of industries. Currently heading the Paid Media department at Tempcover in the UK, he brings a rare combination of deep cross-sector knowledge and mastery of multiple advertising platforms. His data-driven strategies consistently deliver transformative ROI, helping businesses grow and thrive in highly competitive markets.
Mohammadreza Hasanpour | SEO Lead | Snapp!
Mohammadreza began as a digital advertiser, transitioning to a digital marketer and SEO specialist. Now, he has over five years of experience in SEO, working with organizations of all sizes and various industries, including highly competitive markets such as Insurance, Health, Finance, and E-commerce, among others. Currently, he holds the position of SEO Team Lead at Snapp, a Ride-Hailing App. Although he freelanced as an SEO expert for some time, he has been entirely devoted to in-house SEO for almost four years. His expertise lies in technical SEO and strategy. Lately, he has been practicing SEO automation and machine learning.
Montserrat Cano | International SEO & Digital Marketing Consultant |
Montserrat Cano is an international integrated digital marketer, SEO and project manager who works in a wide range of sectors both in the UK and internationally, in-house and as a consultant. Her focus is on solving issues to maximise business results internationally and in multilingual contexts, Being bilingual English-Spanish, she has spoken at international industry events and mentors other SEO/ digital professionals to help make the industry stronger. She is a University Associate Professor, is co-authoring an upcoming book on digital marketing and has contributed to articles and the books SEO in 2023 and 2024. She has recently been appointed as an ambassador for the Google programme Women Techmakers.
Motoko has been providing the online marketing services targeting Japan, Asia, and other markets to companies from around the world for since the mid '90s. Her search marketing consulting services with her extensive knowledge of Asia and Japanese market have been highly valued and made a big impact on some of the world’s popular multi-national brands’ search marketing campaigns. A number of her articles have been published on industry websites and printed media. She also writes about the Search Marketing and SEO on her blog and other websites. She is a frequent speaker at the search marketing conferences globally and gives seminars and training about International search marketing, In-House SEO, and Enterprise SEO. In 2014, she received the Best Consulting Awards form the US Search Awards.
Murat Yatağan | Growth Advisor |
Murat Yatagan is a product marketing and growth strategy leader who has scaled online businesses like Brainly, Global Savings Group, Blinkist, PagBank, and Meditopia. As former VP of Growth at Brainly, he drove a 5x increase in monthly unique users (80M to 400M) in under four years. Following his 5 year tenure at Google Search Quality team, he has advised 100+ companies on building sustainable growth systems, with expertise spanning SEO, ASO, CRO, and UX. Murat is an angel investor and judge for the Global, MENA, European, US, and UK Search Awards.
Myriam Jessier is the co-founder of Neurospicy.agency. They have more than 15 years of experience in performance marketing.
Nadia Mojahed | Digital SEO Consultant |
Nadia Mojahed is an International Digital SEO Consultant based in Geneva, Switzerland. She helps B2C and B2B businesses of local and international brands grow their organic lead generation and sales online. After being In the digital marketing field for more than 15 years, she founded her boutique SEO agency, seotransformer.com, in 2018. Her services include strategic, technical, and content SEO. She helps manage multilingual sites, and provide hands-on support and in-house SEO training and workshops.
Natalia Witczyk | CEO & International SEO Consultant | Mosquita Digital
Natalia Witczyk is a Head of SEO in VIME Digital. She specialises in Technical and International SEO, working on SEO strategies for some of the biggest international websites in the world in Google, Yandex and Baidu. Originally from Poland, her experience comes from the agency side, with vast experience first in UK, and for the last 5 years in Barcelona. Natalia is an active member of Mujeres en SEO (Women in SEO community) and considers herself a true internet geek, who lives & breathes SEO.
Nick Andrews | Group Head of SEO | Kingfisher
Nick Andrews is the Head of Acquisition for Buyagift & Red Letter Days (Moonpig Group) managing Performance Marketing, SEO, Affiliates and Partnerships. Nick has previously held positions as Senior Digital Marketing Strategy Manager, Senior SEO Manager and Senior Search Manager at M&S along with Senior PPC Manager and Senior SEO Manager at Debenhams, bringing over 15 years digital experience to the judging process. Nick is a long-standing supporter of the awards, returning to the panel once again this year to reward those who truly are making a difference to not only their clients, but the industry.
Nicolas Monti-Potsolakis | International SEO Consultant | NMP Consulting
Nicolas is an International SEO Consultant. He is a self made person and has worked as Events Manager, MarTech Specialist and jack-of-all-trades digital marketing specialist before naming SEO his true calling. He has been around SEO since 2009 and founded Black Lantern Marketing and NMP Consulting in 2018. He has worked with multiple Enterprises in the eCommerce, Fashion, Hospitality, Education, Insurance, Health and iGaming sectors. He is also an SEO Instructor for Epsilon College and coaches Business Owners on SEO and how it brings value to their business. And he is co-founder of TAO Rodina, an import-export company of goods from Indonesia. He holds an MBA, an MSc in Digital Marketing and a BA in Marketing Management from the University of East London. He is originally from Greece and Italy but lives in Prague with his family.
Oleksandra Khilova | SEO Specialist and Marketing Manager | Collaborator.pro
Oleksandra Khilova is SEO Specialist and Marketing Manager at Collaborator.pro. Oleksandra has over 8 years of experience in SEO and Digital PR. Oleksandra regularly attends webinars, conferences, and SEO-related events. She focuses on SEO, Link Building, Marketing, Branding, and Reputation Management.
Olesia Korobka | SEO Entrepreneur |
Olesia Korobka is SEO entrepreneur from Ukraine. She runs a few businesses most related to SEO and a small localization service. When not doing SEO, Olesia usually studies hows and whys of SEO, testing and researching. And now also helping other SEOs from Ukraine to adapt during the ongoing war.
Olga Szoke | Head of SEO | OYO Vacation Homes
Olga is currently heading up the SEO department at a leading German holiday accommodation marketplace Traum-Ferienwohnungen (which is part of OYO Vacation Homes). She has started his online career back in 2010 and in her free time, she is an independent international SEO consultant based in Berlin, Germany. Having worked both agency and client side for enterprise and early-stage start-up clients she has experience from all sides of the SEO Spectrum. Olga’s core expertise is strategic SEO, technical SEO and internationalization. With 5 years of people management experience, she has made the transition from managing a small team of SEO specialists at Cheapflights Media to taking over the leadership of a larger team of multiple specialisms at Wimdu in 2015.
Omi Sido | Head of SEO | Canon Europe
Omi Sido is an SEO and Web Development professional with 6 years of experience in both web and traditional advertising, promotions, events, and campaigns. He has worked on integrated campaigns for major clients such as Vectone Mobile, Delight Mobile and The Global Real Estate Institute and Daily Mail. Currently, Omi Sido is Senior Technical SEO at Canon Europe.
Orit Mutznik | Senior Director, SEO & Growth | Forbes
Currently Senior Director, SEO and Growth at Forbes, bringing over 15 years of in-house SEO expertise across diverse industries, including News & Publishing, Fashion, FinTech, EdTech, and Gaming. Recognized by Search Engine Journal as one of the Top 198 SEOs to follow, she is a seasoned specialist in Technical SEO, International SEO, eCommerce SEO, and SEO for publishers, and this is reflected in her multiple contributions to search industry articles, books and speaking opportunities. Based in London with her family and pets, Orit is an active participant in the UK SEO community, frequently attending and speaking at conferences.
Owain Lloyd-Williams | Independent Consultant |
Owain Lloyd-Williams has been in the SEO and digital marketing space for around 12 years, and has vast experience overseeing organic digital strategies for leading global brands in an agency, in-house and consulting capacity. As an independent consultant, he’s either found leading stakeholder management and SEO strategy for large enterprise companies or deep down the rabbit holes of international SEO, content and technical SEO. He also has a niche specialism in China SEO.
Patryk Wawok | Technical SEO & Content Advisor |
Patryk is a Technical SEO and Content Specialist with over 6 years of experience and proven knowledge of technical SEO and content optimization. Patryk managed technical SEO and content projects for multiple Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 brands while working for world-renowned agencies. Patryk also trained in-house teams of Fortune 500 brands to improve their SEO practices in multiple workshops and performed as a speaker at SEO conferences such as the International Search Summit. Currently, Patryk is working as an independent SEO consultant working with mostly B2B e-commerce brands on their Technical SEO and content strategies. Personally, Patryk performs as an improv comedian and maniacally learns new cooking recipes every day.
Pawel Rabinek | Founder | Redseo
Paweł Rabinek is an internet marketing practitioner with 17 years of experience in the industry. He started his adventure with internet marketing as a webmaster, then a programmer, and then used these skills for SEO. Creator of the PlanetaSEO platform, aggregating industry content on internet marketing. Speaker at the SEO Festival and SemKRK conference. From 2010 as Head of SEO in one of the agencies. In 2013, he founded his own interactive agency Redseo, specializing in PPC campaigns (Google Ads & Microsoft Ads) and SEO. Enthusiast of building remote organizations.
Petra Kis-Herczegh | Independent Consultant & Trainer |
Petra Kis-Herczegh is an Independent Consultant & Trainer with an in-house SEO background at brands such as TUI, and Jack Wills, as well as enterprise B2B softwares, Yext, and Botify. Petra is a proud member of The WTS community, and focuses on neurodiversity and inclusion as part of their consulting.
Phil Bacon | Marketing Director, Strategist, and Consultant | Marketing Managed
I'm a marketing strategist with over 20 years of experience spanning in-house roles, agency collaborations, and consultancy. My career has taken me across diverse sectors, including education, food, technology, engineering, and manufacturing, where I’ve been involved in almost every aspect and channel in marketing, whether that has been hands-on or managing multiple agency and freelance relationships.
Rana Abu Quba Chamsi | AI & SEO Trainer & Consultant | Expando.Digital
Rana Abu Quba Chamsi, PhD is a seasoned data scientist, digital marketing expert, and AI advocate with over a decade of experience in SEO and digital strategy. She holds a Ph.D. in Data Science, specializing in social networks and customer behavior, from leading institutions in France and the United States. As the founder and head of Expando.digital, a respected SEO, AI and digital marketing agency based in Switzerland, Rana has successfully guided clients across Switzerland, Europe, and the MENA region. Her consultancy and training services have empowered businesses of all sizes—from startups and small enterprises to large e-commerce companies—to enhance their online visibility, optimize SEO, and leverage AI technologies to drive growth and innovation. Rana’s unique approach blends her background as a computer science engineer with her deep expertise in data-driven marketing strategies and artificial intelligence. She specializes in harnessing AI to enhance digital strategies, automate processes, and optimize SEO performance, providing her clients with a competitive edge in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Beyond her professional pursuits, Rana is a devoted mother of four and passionate about fostering healthy relationships between children, teenagers, and technology.
Reena Bowden | Head of Global SEO | SAS Software
With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Reena is an experienced Digital Marketer and Leader of the Global SEO Network at SAS Software. She is deeply passionate about the ways in which digital marketing is essential to enhancing the customer journey and growing business. Reena’s innovative approach drives her to constantly explore and develop new ideas and solutions that can effectively address the evolving needs of clients and improve overall engagement in the digital landscape.
Rejoice Ojiaku | SEO Manager | Nelson Bostock UNLIMITED
Rejoice has worked within digital marketing (SEO) for 4+ years. After finishing her master’s degree in marketing at The University of Manchester, she started her journey as a Junior SEO Executive and is now an SEO Manager as well as the Co-Founder & Content Lead for B-DigitalUK. She specialises in Content SEO and she has spoken at BrightonSEO, Whitespark Local Search Summit as well as participated in webinars for FounderVine, Majestic, Noisy Little Monkey etc. Additionally, she is also an Award-Winning Diversity & Inclusion Advocate as she is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion within the workplace to ensure the perspective and struggles of Black people are heard.
Reyhaneh Jafari | SEO Manager | Helpling
Reyhaneh is a senior SEO specialist with more than 5 years of experience with different companies. A craving to learn and provide creative solutions to unique problems drives her further in her job. She started her career path with content strategy and continued the way to SEO and professional technical SEO. Reyhaneh is a data-driven person, multitasking, a team player, and innovative while facing challenges.
Ric Rodriguez | Director of Growth | Healthera
Ric Rodriguez is an accomplished marketing and growth leader. Ric is Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Finsu, the sustainable fashion marketplace, taking the compromise out of conscious shopping. Ric is driven and his career to date speaks to his ambition - most recently holding a senior strategy role at Vashi, the fine jewellery disruptor - where he built the digital marketing team from the ground-up, launched the Covent Garden flagship store and Innovation Centre and established an accredited approach to ESG. Prior to this, Ric held an evangelist role at the marketing technology company, Yext, where he supported sales and product teams in building new propositions for customers, including delivering an new approach for qualifying deals during the beginning of the Covid-19, which was adopted across EMEA - as well as regularly representing the NYSE-listed firm as an industry expert at events across Europe. Ric has also held significant roles in agency-side positions, at iProspect, where he lead accounts for leading brands such as Santander and Post Office; at Croud, where he was seconded into IWG’s marketing organisation to deliver the company’s digital growth across 110+ markets - work for which he won an industry award. Ric is often invited to speak at industry conferences and is a regular award judge. He has twice been a co-author for the Amazon-Bestselling “Mastering In-House SEO”. .
Richard Gregory | Founder | Agency NXD
Richard is chairman of tech companies Ruler Analytics and Ash.tv, non-exec director of Fluid Digital and co-founder of SAScon - a digital marketing conference. Heralding from “Silicon Ramsbottom” he is an ardent supporter of the digital and tech industry in the North of England. Previously, Richard was the managing director of digital agency Latitude, director of Tech North and Manchester Digital council member. With 20 years of digital expertise, Richard now advises agencies and start-ups on marketing and growth strategies.
Richard Keenan- Heard | Head of SEO | Wilderness
Richard is a seasoned growth marketing and SEO expert with extensive experience driving transformative digital strategies. As Head of SEO at Trainline, he built a £1.5bn organic search channel, scaling international markets and leading 26 complex migrations. With a background spanning global brands like GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, Richard specialises in integrated acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. Passionate about data-driven growth and innovation, he now leads SEO for Wilderness, shaping digital strategy across a portfolio of travel brands.
Roberto Grasiano | Technical SEO Lead | Shuttershock
I’m a Technical SEO Lead and Product Manager with a strong background in driving organic growth for large-scale websites. Over the years, I’ve worked with companies like Shutterstock, Farfetch, and Lyst, focusing on scalable solutions and automation and ensuring SEO is well-integrated with product and tech teams. My approach is hands-on and straightforward. I enjoy solving problems, collaborating across teams, and delivering results that matter. With fluency in Portuguese and English, I bring technical expertise and a practical mindset to every project I take on.
Rumyana Miteva | Performance Marketing Director | Deliveroo
Rumyana is currently a Performance Marketing Director at Deliveroo. She is leading a global team of Paid Search, Display & Video, Paid Social and Affiliate specialists, who are delivering growth for the company through a rigorous test & learn agenda. With more than 14+ years in Digital Marketing Rumyana has expert knowledge and valuable experience helping brands acquire & retain customers through Paid Media channels. Outside of work Rumyana enjoys being a Digital Consultant for small businesses, mentoring young professionals and sharing her knowledge by speaking at events.
Sam Prakesh Bheri | Principal Technical Program Manager | Microsoft
A highly rationale and skilled Technical Program and Product management expert with more than 18 years’ experience leading mission-critical initiatives to enhance cloud + AI scalability, quality, and efficiency. I am working as Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure focusing on cloud computing and AI driving reliability and availability for global enterprises and organizations. I have worked in various top tier tech organizations such as Microsoft, Amazon and HPE labs and graduated with an MBA in Information Technology from Virginia tech.
Samantha Noble | MD & Founder | Biddable Moments
Seb Atkinson | Digital Marketing Consultant |
Seb Atkinson is a Digital Marketing Consultant with over 12 years of experience in Technical SEO, International SEO and Content Strategy for editorial and eCommerce sites in both B2B and B2C. Specialising in connecting search visibility with commercial goals to increase revenue, Seb has worked with businesses across multiple industries including personal finance, professional services, B2B and consumer brands. Seb’s approach is to understand a business’ goals, what’s currently working and what isn’t, and produce a strategy and roadmap to elevate revenue through organic search traffic. He prides himself in his thorough approach and out-of-the box thinking to solve problems and develop effective SEO programmes that deliver results, carefully considering a business’ current capabilities and how to help take them to the next level.
Serge Nguele | Director of Paid Search | Your PPC Doctor
Serge Nguele is a PPC expert and thought leader with 15 years of experience managing tens of millions in ad spend for eCommerce, SMEs, charities, and enterprise brands. As the founder of Your PPC Doctor, he helps businesses scale through data-driven paid media strategies. Unlike many in the field, he has personally invested £50K in PPC for his own eCommerce venture, giving him a unique, hands-on perspective. A sought-after speaker and moderator, Serge shares his expertise at BrightonSEO, PPC Live, and will soon take the stage at Search Africon and Hero Conf UK, while also fostering industry collaboration as a PPC Live Ambassador. ---
A marketer, strategist, and SEO enthusiast with expertise in website optimization. Sharon has worked across diverse markets and niches, enhancing customer experiences, acquisition funnels, and conversion rates. Passionate about helping brands elevate their visibility, positioning, and USPs across search engines and LLMs, she’s also deeply curious about AI-driven strategies and experimentation frameworks.
Silvia Martin | SEO Consultant |
Silvia is the founder of Trebole Ltd, an independent consultancy specialising in technical SEO and strategy for international clients. She has been working in the SEO industry for more than 8 years, helping a range of leading brands improve their online visibility and organic performance. She also collaborates with WYK, Women in Tech SEO and the Santander mentoring programmes.
Simon Howland | Independant Consultant |
Simon is an independent consultant, qualified scuba diver, sailor and aspiring badminton player. When not at sea or on a court he works with ambitious companies wanting to understand, shape and accelerate their online performance. With 20+ years experience across multiple industries and sectors, he has developed a fresh and unique approach to delivering impressive commercial results focussed on the things that really matter, avoiding wasting time and budgets by developing better working practices across people, technology and strategy. Not afraid to make tough decisions backed by data and experience, and with an extensive network of digital professionals to call on, he is well positioned to help even the most ambitious clients succeed.
Simon To | Paid Media / PPC / Freelance / Contractor / Consultant / Performance Marketing | Website3.com
Simon To is the Digital Director & Consultant at Website3.com, Simon goes above and beyond delivering performance marketing solutions for clients. Simon has over 12+ years of practical experience and 200+ clients under his belt. Website3.com is a new generation of digital media & marketing, supporting clients with the new wave of generative AI in marketing and automation. Website3 provides hands on digital consultancy for all your marketing needs. Website3 Paid Media Services include: Google . PPC . Shopping . Search . Bing . Social Media . Facebook . Instagram . YouTube . CTV . Display . Programmatic . Native . Analytics . Strategy . Planning . Delivery
Sophie Brannon | Director of SEO | RushOrderTrees
Sophie is an SEO specialist with over 7 years experience working with leading brands in the UK, US and Australia. She is a regular speaker at industry events across Europe including BrightonSEO and WeLoveSEO Paris. She was also the SEO chapter lead for the Web Almanac State Of The Web report 2022 and was the recipient of the Rising Agency Star Of The Year award at the UK Agency Awards 2021.
Soumya Rossiter | Senior Digital Marketing & Ecommerce Manager | Kuoni UK
Soumya Rossiter is a Digital Marketing Manager with a career spanning over a decade. Soumya’s diverse industry experience includes successful stints with global brands such as The Body Shop, Krispy Kreme, Merrell, and Perrigo. Currently, Soumya serves as the Performance Marketing Manager for Kuoni UK. Soumya has also completed Mark Ritson’s Mini MBA’s in Marketing and Brand Management, which have equipped her with the skills to combine brand strategy and performance marketing tactics to drive incremental results.
Steve Kuncewicz | Partner - Head Of Creative, Digital & Marketing | Glaisyers Etl
Steve is a Partner and Head of Creative, Digital and Marketing at Glaisyers ETL in Manchester. He specialises in intellectual property, media social media and privacy law and is listed as a "recommended lawyer" in the Legal 500, and was a oo-founder pf the Bulletproof Agency Network. He is a regular media spokesperson, and has given interviews to the local and national press through BBC Breakfast, Sky News, ITV, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC London. Steve is also the Manchester Publicity Association’s Honorary Solicitor.
Roxana Stingu | Head of Search & SEO | Alamy
Roxana Stingu is the Head of Search and SEO at Alamy, where she specializes in technical and image SEO for enterprise websites. She also oversees Alamy's internal search engine that handles over 350M assets and has an avid interest in all things AI. Roxana loves getting into the nitty-gritty of SEO and her favorite pastime is automating anything repetitive that she encounters at work, or in life. Roxana is also a speaker for conferences such as BrightonSEO and WTFest and a co-author for Blue Array's "Mastering In-house SEO" (First and Second editions) and Majestic's "SEO in 2022".
Sujata Ghosh | Head of SEO | Dyson
Sujata is the Global Head of SEO at Dyson, overseeing over 40 Markets and setting the global SEO strategy and guidance for the local market team to follow. She has over 14 years of experience in the SEO industry and has expertise in navigating the complexities of enterprise companies, particularly in scaling their SEO strategies to drive organic growth.
Sukhjinder Singh | SEO Consultant | IDoSEO.co.uk
Sukh has worked in the SEO industry since 2010, initially on the agency side as a senior SEO and eventually as a Head of SEO. In 2022, he made the move to freelancing at IDoSEO.co.uk, where he white-labels for other agencies and works directly with his own clients. He specialises in SEO strategy, international SEO, website migrations, use of AI in SEO strategy and workflows, and delivering SEO training. He enjoys public speaking at events like Brighton SEO, joining podcasts like Majestic’s SEO in 2025 and Wix’s SERPs Up, and he recently contributed to the latest entry in the acclaimed book series SEO in 2025. When he’s not working, you can catch him at the gym or out on a run, and he’s recently got into remote working abroad.
Tani Kopliku | Head of Marketing | Lands End (Europe)
With over 15 years of experience in marketing, Tani has been working predominantly in Finance & Retail Ecommerce, in-house and agency side. He has a depth of knowledge in Search, in both Organic and Paid, and has overseen many projects for big household brand names. He currently works as a Head of Marketing for fashion ecommerce retailer Lands’ End and oversees the acquisition of new customers through all channels across multiple European markets.
Tasha Antwi | SEO Consultant |
Tasha Antwi is an SEO Consultant with 11 years of experience in the industry, known for developing data-driven global omnichannel search strategies driven by audience insights. She has become an expert in the luxury and premium space and is a regular speaker at Brighton SEO, featured in WARC, Prolific North, and more. She has worked with some of the biggest and most renowned brands globally and was previously Director of Search at Rise at Seven and an Advisory Board Member for Wix. Tasha was also recently named one of the 'Top 24 Marketers to Follow in 2024'.
Thuha Wright | Performance Marketing Consultant |
Thuha is a Paid Search Specialist with over 18 years of experience in the travel and luxury fashion retail industry. She loves working with data and uses this superpower to help grow businesses through paid ads.
Tiago Perdigão | CEO | Fractal Mind
Tiago is an experienced Manager with +25 years of experience in the areas of marketing, sales and retail, having worked in companies such as adidas, Jeronimo Martins, Sonae and FNAC. He has worked for adidas in several Marketing roles in Europe and the MENA, where he received many media, activation and retail awards. He also as been part of several jury panels in marketing awards events on the region. Always pioneering in the use of new technologies to the business world, he took on gamification as his latest challenge in 2017, currently leading Gamification startups in both Portugal and the UK. He achieved is Bachelors in Management in Portugal, followed by an MBA with Marketing focus in the UK. More recently he concluded a Post-Graduation Diploma in Retail Management and another in Arts Markets and Collections. He is also a long time Member of the CIM (MCIM) and (believe it or not!) a Chartered Accountant.
Tomáš Martínek | Online Marketing Consultant | Cheil Czech republic
Tomáš is a digital marketing professional with over 17 years of experience in the SEO and PPC fields, focusing on the CEE market. In recent years, he has been working with Cheil, one of the world's leading advertising agencies, where he manages performance and brand campaigns for clients across Europe, specifically in the CEE region, catering to both small and large e-shops as well as overseeing brand campaigns. Additionally, he possesses a strong passion for data-driven marketing and photography.
Toni Navarro | Founder | Toni Navarro Marketing
Toni Navarro is the founder of Toni Navarro Marketing, and the co-founder of Rock and Click agency. He’s a certified digital marketing consultant, trainer & online entrepreneur, specialised in SEO & PPC, and in his more than 15 years of experience in the sector, he's had the pleasure to work and train some amazing brands. He also offers mentoring advice for charities and small businesses in Spain and the UK, and he hosts a podcast and shares a newsletter called Search and Grow, as well as he writes about his passions for Digital Marketing, SEO and business in different blogs.
Valen Correa | Head of Growth | Travel Diaries
Valen Correa is a seasoned digital marketing professional with a 10-year experience in the industry and expertise in Tech and International SEO. She has collaborated with well-known international companies such as Skyscanner, Merqueo and Delivery Hero. Valen has shared her knowledge as a teacher at the Startup Institute in Berlin, led a successful SEO and SEM agency, built and led the Marketing at Bunny Studio and it's currently the Head of Growth at Travel Diaries and Growth Advisor at Straico.
Valentina Hynes | CEO | SVH Inc. CIC
Valentina Hynes, Founder and Director of SVH Inc. CIC, stands at the forefront of workplace wellbeing innovation in the UK. Her company, celebrated for its comprehensive wellbeing services, reflects her deep-seated commitment to employee welfare and mental health. Valentina’s leadership has earned her notable recognitions, including Business Woman of The Year at the Yorkshire Choice Awards and an Associate Fellowship from The Royal Commonwealth Society. A frequent speaker on topics such as happiness, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, she brings a wealth of experience and insight. Under her guidance, SVH Inc. CIC champions progressive practices like Mental Health First Aid training and unique Away Day experiences. A resilient entrepreneur who has overcome personal challenges, Valentina is passionate about creating Strong Vibrant Happy communities.
Vanda Pokecz | Head of SEO | Atolls
Vanda is a Berlin based Head of SEO and SEO Product Lead at Global Savings Group, a Certified Digital Product Manager and international speaker. She has spoken at prestigious events and podcasts like SMX Munich, BrightonSEO, International Search Summit Barcelona and WTSFest Berlin and has contributed to a number of publications. She is the SEO who almost got away, but life had different plans for her. Starting her career within the product comparison sphere she quickly gained extensive experience in all areas of SEO from digital PR to onsite and tech SEO and more. She ultimately found her true passion at the intersection of SEO and Product and advocates for the collaboration between disciplines for better user experience and improved business results. Currently Vanda as Head of SEO is part of an in-house SEO team helping millions of people around the World along their shopping and importantly savings journey.
Vânia Marques | Head of PPC | Minty Lab - Minty Square
With an unusual path, my career in digital marketing began in 2018, 2 years after completing my Degree in Philosophy. After a course in digital marketing with an internship, I ended up working at the agency where I interned. With 5 years of experience and dozens of clients, I worked as a PPC manager and content manager. 3 years on I decided to focus exclusively on paid campaigns. Throughout this time I developed experience in lead gen in the B2B market and later in brand development, traffic increase, and purchase generation in the B2C market. I am currently responsible for the PPC department at MintySquare, where I develop marketing strategies for several fashion brands and campaigns that aim to increase brand awareness and generate purchases.
Veronica is a seasoned digital marketer with almost 11 years of experience. Named one of the 10 Optmyzr Digital Marketing Sheroes of 2023, she has worked for a mix of big names, SMEs, startups, and agencies across the UK and the US, covering broad areas such as content, PR, SEO, and affiliates. For the last 8 years, she has specialised in Paid Media, working towards the perfect balance between analysis and creativity that can help brands grow and expand internationally.
Veronika Höller | Head of Demand Generation | Tresorit
Veronika is a Global Senior SEO-Manager and has worked in SEO and PPC marketing for over 14 years. She started as a copywriter and PPC Manager in a little Ads Agency. She has continuously developed herself further into the direction of SEO. Over the years, she has worked as a digital marketing manager in agencies and international companies, including CompuGroup where she is now. International SEO and PPC Strategies are Top of her priority list. She views SEO as a whole puzzle and not just individual sub-areas, hence why she trained herself in all areas – content, technology, PPC, SMM and UX. Today she spreads her knowledge as a speaker on the stages of international digital marketing conferences such as BrightonSEO, SMX advanced, International Search Summit etc. For her all digital marketing channels have to be united to get the best of your website.
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