Marc Benzakein started programing when he was 10 on the mainframe at the university in which is father worked and has been working online since the mid 90s, starting as a Network Administrator for a small, independent ISP in Southern California. Marc has been involved in almost all aspects of technology throught his life and in 2009, started developing in WordPress, first for his own purposes and then for clients. In early 2013, he got involved with ServerPress, LLC, makers of DesktopServer, a local development tool created for WordPress designers and developers designed to make it ultra-fast and simple to design, develop and deploy local websites.

Marc lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife, Jessica and two children, Eli (8) and Brenna (3).