Organizers

Brian Retterer is a developer advocate at Okta, a Silicon Valley cloud-based identity service. He is focused on serving the PHP community, and always excited to represent and educate developers, especially in the Midwest. From his home base in Ohio, you can often find him advocating for best practices in account security and RESTful API design. With his 13+ years of experience in working with PHP, he has experienced the growing pains and exciting changes that PHP has gone through. You can follow Brian on Twitter at @bretterer

Jeff Long is the founding owner of True Focus Media, He has served companies, organizations & entreprenuers around the world since 2003. True Focus Media develops flexible websites, creates engaging eLearning and Online Course content as well as produces engaging videos. Jeff has been working with WordPress since 2008 and loves the flexibility of the platform. In his free time he loves watching Ohio State Football.

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.

Currently, Gery is the creative and managing director of GLD Enterprises Communications, Ltd., a marketing communications agency based near Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1998, the firm works in all areas of advertising and marketing including website development and content, digital marketing and customer-centric advertising. GLD Enterprises Communications, Ltd.’s client roster includes heavy hitters like Culligan Water, McAfee Heating & Air, Cox Media, Dayton Mailing Services, Inc., and CMG Financial Services, as well as smaller companies.

Bryan owns the website design and hosting company called Listen to the Wind Media. Before web design, he worked in news production at CNN for 18 years.  Bryan enjoys traveling national parks while motorcycle camping across the country.

Chris (@chriscelek) is a recovering newspaper editor who now writes and edits on behalf of businesses large and small. He launched Celek Media Consulting in 2009 and helps businesses design and manage websites, building exclusively with WordPress. Away from work, Chris raises Springer spaniels and is learning to fly drones.

Lesley Baumann is a graphic designer and the founder of XANDRA DESIGN. She works across a variety of media and serves as a creative partner to small- and medium-sized companies across the country. In her free time, she loves to ride her horse and paint animals.