Brian Retterer
Stoney deGeyter
TL;DR: Author, speaker, teacher, husband, father, web marketer!
Graduating high school at the age of 16, Stoney has always had an entrepreneur spirit. In 1998 he founded Pole Position Marketing, now one of the longest-running digital marketing agencies in the US. Over the past twenty-plus years, he has become a leader in the digital marketing space, helping hundreds of businesses grow their online authority through strategic and effective digital marketing strategies.
He authored The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period! which is the perfect desk-reference for digital marketers and managers of all skill levels. You can also see his articles published on Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, Search Engine Journal, as well as Pole Position Marketing’s E-Marketing Performance blog, and he has also written a number of ebooks that can be found on the Pole Position Marketing website.
And if that’s not enough, Stoney frequently teaches digital marketing at conferences nationwide, including PubCon, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Affiliate Summit, and can also be hired to provide in-house training to help your in-house digital marketing team.
What Stoney loves most about digital marketing is that it’s all about creating jobs. The more businesses Pole Position Marketing helps, the more people find jobs and improve their standard of living, which in turn provides even more jobs.
Contact Stoney or the Pole Position Marketing pit crew at www.PolePositionMarketing.com or by phone at 330-768-7067 for digital marketing, to speak at your conference, seminar or workshop, and/or provide in-house training for your team.
Sam Jadali
As a cybersecurity researcher and crypto activist, Sam’s dedication and passion in the cloud space has been alive and well before the term cloud was born. He has spent the last 20 years in the hosting industry and he founded Host Duplex 8 years ago. Since the launch of HD, Sam and his company have been not only managing WordPress sites but educating clients on security and performance to assist in their success. His clients include some of the most visited WordPress sites on the internet including MacRumors and AppShopper . He quickly realized that client education is vital for not only his success but for their success. With his depth of knowledge of plugin security and compliance regulations, he continually educates his clients on how to be preemptive with security while maintaining the performance they expect.
An avid Big 10 fan (Go Hawkeyes, sorry Buckeye & Flyers fans), Sam escaped the Iowa cold and moved to Southern California 7 years ago. He currently resides in downtown San Diego and is currently learning the ropes of raising a new puppy.
Dustin Hartzler
Dustin is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, providing support for the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. He is also the host of the weekly WordPress podcast at Your Website Engineer. When not spending time with WordPress, he can be found traveling around the world, biking and reading.
Joe Ferguson
Adam Warner
Adam W. Warner discovered WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since. To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.
He is a true WordPress Evangelist in spirit and personality, and that happens to have been his job title when joining SiteLock.com. Today, he’s the Open Source Community Manager there, continuing to bring his experience and knowledge of the web, business, and security to many other communities.
Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.
Chris Celek
Chris Celek is a senior writer for gyro, a global marketing agency with offices in eight countries and 15 cities, including Cincinnati. Chris researches and develops content for high-tech and manufacturing companies. He specializes in crafting compelling, humanly relevant website content, blogs, white papers, e-newsletters, e-books and magazine articles.
Chris is a reformed journalist, having worked as a reporter and editor in print and digital roles at traditional media companies. Chris founded Celek Media Consulting, providing web content, website design using WordPress, social media and online video for small businesses.
Nile Flores
Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design. Nile also works as an Infection Cleanup Specialist at WP Fix It.
She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects.
Nile founded and runs a 9,000+ member Facebook group dedicated to helping WordPressers, called All About WordPress. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.
Matt Cotter
Father, occasional guitar player & Full Stack Developer for Bitstorm Connect.
Mike McDermott
Steve Grunwell
Steve Grunwell is a Senior Software Engineer at Liquid Web. Specializing in WordPress and application development he has worked with brands and organizations including Microsoft, TED, Xylem, Elmer’s, and Experience Columbus.
Steve has released numerous plugins in the WordPress.org repositories, including one from the grounds of The White House during the first annual National Day of Civic Hacking in 2013. When he’s not writing software he enjoys hiking, music, and writing about writing software on his blog.
Steve holds a B.A. in Telecommunications from Bowling Green State University where he graduated Cum Laude with minors in General Business and Recording Technologies.
More information, including portfolio work and his development blog, can be found at https://stevegrunwell.com.
Aaron Forgue
Kyle Maurer
William Jackson
Social Media Visionary for My Quest To Teach Blogger – National and International Speaker at WordCamp events in 2017 WordCamp Washington D.C. WordCamp Jacksonville, Florida WordCamp Wilmington N.C. Invited to speak in 2017 WordCamp Pittsburgh, Pa. WordCamp Toronto, Canada
Educator over 25 years with Duval County Public Schools and Edward Waters College. Member of the Social Media Team for TEDxFSCJ
Community activist and teaching community activism.
Gery Deer
Gery L. Deer is an award-winning writer, creative director, and the owner and CEO of GLD Enterprises Communications, Ltd., a strategic marketing and public relations firm he founded in 1998. He grew up on his family farm in Jamestown, Ohio working livestock, participating in 4-H, and working as a mechanic, truck driver, and marketer in his father’s agricultural trucking business.
Gery attended Wright State University, Sinclair Community College, and Ohio University where he studied mechanical engineering and computer science. After college, he worked in technical fields as a technician and analyst, database developer, and researcher studying oil refinery operations all around the U.S. and Canada. Gery got his start as start as a freelance writer as a way help pay for college but also worked on-campus jobs and as a pianist in area restaurants and nightclubs.
Gery left the engineering industry to focus on his writing and follow in his family’s tradition of entrepreneurship. He started his first company, an IT and software consulting firm, in June of 1994 – GLD Enterprises Communications is an off-shoot of that business – and today is a leading expert in the areas of business development, public relations, and marketing. Since 2012 he has served as the business contributor to the WDTN-TV2 daytime program, Living Dayton and is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Western Ohio Writers Association.
During the last 30+ years, he has written for more than 300 separate publications, print and online, as well as countless other organizations. Gery’s syndicated op-ed series, Deer In Headlines, has been published for nearly a decade in more than a half-dozen publications and earned a 2010 nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
As full as his schedule is, Gery does find time for some volunteer work. Since 2016 he has served as chairperson of the Executive Council and Communications Committee of Prevent Blindness Ohio’s Miami Valley Ohio chapter and was recently elected to the board member of the Yellow Springs, Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Gery has been involved in H7 for nearly two years and was recently recognized by BNI Miami Valley Region for more than a decade of outstanding networking achievements.
Gery’s work in branded content development, strategic SEO, and digital marketing has been sought by companies like Think Patented, Cox Media Group, AIM Media, Inc., DMS ink, and more.
Randy Clark
