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Christopher S. Penn is an authority on analytics, digital marketing, marketing technology, data science, and machine learning. A recognized thought leader, best-selling author, and internationally renowned keynote speaker, he has shaped five key fields in the marketing industry: Google Analytics adoption, data-driven marketing and PR, modern email marketing, marketing data science, and artificial intelligence/machine learning in marketing. As co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Trust Insights, he is responsible for the creation of products and services, creation and maintenance of all code and intellectual property, technology and marketing strategy, brand awareness, and research & development.

Mr. Penn is a 2022, five-time IBM Champion in IBM Data and AI, a Brand24 Top 100 Digital Marketer, an Onalytica Top 100 AI in Marketing influencer, and co-host of the award-winning Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast. Prior to co-founding Trust Insights, he built the marketing for a series of startups with a 100% successful exit rate in the financial services, SaaS software, and public relations industries. His work has served brands such as Twitter, T-Mobile, Citrix Systems, GoDaddy, AAA, McDonald’s, and many others.

Mr. Penn is an IBM Watson Machine Learning Certified Professional, a Google Analytics Certified Professional, a Google Ads Certified Professional, a Google Digital Sales Certified Professional, and a Hubspot Inbound Certified Professional. He is the author of over two dozen marketing books including bestsellers such as AI for Marketers: A Primer and Introduction, Marketing White Belt: Basics for the Digital Marketer, Marketing Red Belt: Connecting With Your Creative Mind, and Marketing Blue Belt: From Data Zero to Marketing Hero, and Leading Innovation.

Christine Gritmon empowers professionals to step into their personal brands in a bigger, bolder way on social media. You CAN do it–she’ll teach you how! She’s spoken on stages worldwide and is a frequent expert guest on podcasts, live streams, Twitter chats, and blog posts, as well as hosting her own weekly Twitter chat, #ChatAboutBrand, and live interview show, Let’s Talk About Brand. She's also the Senior Editor of Social Media Pulse, a free online community serving social media professionals of all kinds with content, trainings, and connection.

Chris Rudolph is a husband, father of three, and business coach for digital agency owners. He specializes in helping them accelerate growth and eliminate hustle. Also, Chris is a national speaker at digital marketing conferences and has presented for companies like AgoraPulse, Sendible, Verblio, and Cloud Campaign. A Madison, Wisconsin native, Chris, and his family recently relocated to Baja, Mexico, where he runs his business coaching practice remotely and volunteers part-time building homes for families in need. After starting and selling off two businesses, there is one lesson Chris has learned along the way; it's extremely difficult to do it alone. He believes if you want to be successful and finish well, you need a coach, just like any serious athlete does.

Andrew Davis is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker. Before building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, Andrew produced for NBC’s Today Show, worked for The Muppets in New York and wrote for Charles Kuralt. He's appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and on NBC and the BBC. Davis has crafted documentary films and award-winning content for tiny start-ups and Fortune 500 brands. Recognized as one of the industry's "Jaw-Dropping Marketing Speakers," Andrew is a mainstay on global marketing influencer lists. Wherever he goes, Andrew Davis puts his infectious enthusiasm and magnetic speaking style to good use teaching business leaders how to grow their businesses, transform their cities, and leave their legacy.

Anne Popolizio is the owner of the digital marketing agency Social Squib. In school, Anne was the nerdiest of creatives and the most creative of the nerds. This balance serves her well in social media. She focuses on specific story telling to your ideal client through the written word, video and sound, but she’s obsessed with analytics so you can measure the results of your efforts.

She has been doing social media for businesses since 2010 and knows how to leverage your social media following into real customers.

Keenya is the CEO of If You brand It, a marketing and consulting firm in San Diego, CA where she strategically helps business owners develop video marketing strategies
Keenya decided to learn about the TikTok platform as a way to market her business during the pandemic. In just 2 years Keenya has grown her account to over 489,000 followers and has helped clients reach millions of followers as well.
As a partner with the Keenya Kelly brand you will surely reach Keenya’s strong female audience of influencers and entrepreneurs.

Mark Kilens is the CMO of Airmeet, a leading virtual and hybrid event platform. He oversees Airmeet’s global marketing team responsible for brand, demand, lifecycle, and product marketing.

Airmeet helps organizations discover, engage, and grow customers using event-led growth. A new way to create immersive and integrated events across the entire customer journey.

He previously was the VP of Content and Community at Drift where he led the brand, content, creative, and events teams. He oversaw Drift’s community, Drift Insider, which has 50,000+ members, and Drift’s FLASH, RevGrowth, and HYPERGROWTH events.

Prior to joining Drift, he served as VP of Marketing and founder of HubSpot Academy. As a former customer, Mark joined HubSpot in 2010 where he spent two years working with thousands of HubSpot customers to scale their inbound strategy.

From there, he went on to build HubSpot Academy from the ground up, and in doing so, educated and certified millions of people and helped grow HubSpot to more than $600 million in revenue.

When he’s not at Airmeet, Mark enjoys plenty of steak and lobster, a round of golf or two, and loves being on snow or in the ocean.

Jason Swenk is the agency advisor & coach that guides marketing agencies through a proven framework for growing their agency faster. Jason has literally written the book for growing an agency from nothing to two 8 figure agencies.  He is one of the most sought advisors to agencies in the World, by showing them an 8-system framework that worked for growing his agency, working with brands like AT&T, Hitachi, Lotus Cars, and eventually lead to selling his agency.

Kyle teaches free online courses at HubSpot Academy. He has created certification courses on inbound sales, sales enablement, sales management, and HubSpot’s sales software. His videos in HubSpot Academy have garnered a combined two million views in the past twelve months alone, but he’s perhaps best known for his #HubSpotTipsAndTricks videos on LinkedIn. He is a husband, father, and aspiring paperback novelist.

Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and internationally bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst.

Dr. Berger is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. He has published over 50 articles in top‐tier academic journals, teaches Wharton’s highest rated online course, and popular outlets like The New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work. He’s keynoted hundred of events, and often consults for organizations like Google, Apple, Nike, and the Gates Foundation.

Jody Sutter is a business development expert who works with leaders of small marketing agencies. She helps them generate revenue by demystifying and simplifying the process of pitching new business. Her programs make it easier for small agencies to embrace and sustain a new business strategy because they take both the agency's strengths and available resources into consideration.

She started The Sutter Company after more than two decades of running business development teams for agencies, large and small and spanning a diverse list of disciplines. They’ve included R/GA, OMD, Havas Media and The VIA Agency.

Jody frequently speaks at leading industry events around the world such as Traffic & Conversion Summit, INBOUND, the ICA’s Agency Transformation Summit, The Drum’s Pitch Perfect new business conference, and is a featured instructor in the 4As Learning & Development program.

Her book, A Small Agency’s Guide to Winning New Business: 8 Steps to Winning More of the Right Kinds of Clients, is now available on Amazon.com.

I am a disruptor... since an early age. So said my middle school teachers who sent me home with daily report cards because I wouldn't stop talking in class.

My methods may have changed since then, but my spirit remains the same. 🎉

Today, I'm a public relations strategist and copywriter who helps creators be intentional in the ways they connect with their audiences.

Yep... I start conversations and pass notes for a living. Take that, Mrs. Dansby!

But seriously, there's something magical about taking the conversational traits that I started honing way back in middle school and skillfully using them to help my clients get clear on their unique messages, amplify their most compelling stories and position themselves for the greatest impact.

As your ride or die sidekick you can count on me to help you do the same things. Probably with cocktails.

Christina Steed is an award-winning marketing communication expert whose experience includes previously serving as executive vice president of client relations for a boutique agency in Chicago. Her expertise includes business development, client relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, and internal and external marketing communications. She is also a consultant for global companies and agencies with Agents & Strategies (A&S), a Black-owned, women-led communications and cultural consultancy company. Her brand experience includes Cox Communications, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Nielsen, Dow Chemical, Nike Chicago, City of Chicago, and several more in various industries. Additionally, she provided strategic issues management and counsel for companies including Ferrara USA, McDonald's, AT&T, Poetry Foundation, Bimbo Bakery, Commonwealth Edison, and several others.

Christina’s background includes a mix of journalism, consumer, and business-to-business (B2B) public relations and marketing communications, social media, content marketing, stakeholder engagement, trade show marketing, and international communications. She has previously held management positions with Golin; a small B2B marcom agency focused on global trade show marketing; and an international food service packaging manufacturer.

With a lifelong commitment to quality storytelling, she began her career in broadcast journalism after receiving her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her M.A. in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism.

Christina has been featured in PR Week, PR News, PR Newswire, and Rolling Out. She is also a podcaster with her podcast Firsts Over Forty and a TV show host/producer of CAN-TV's For the Culture with Christina Steed. She is an adjunct professor and professional fellow in the College of Communication with a focus on multicultural marketing communications at DePaul University as well as serves on the dean’s advisory board.

Christina enjoys reading, writing, traveling, attending live concerts, yoga, and social media surfing. She is a former board member and treasurer of the Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC), the Black Public Relations Society (BPRS), ColorComm, and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She currently serves as chair on the board of Chicago State University Foundation and is a board member of Girls Like Me Project and Open Books. She previously served on the board of the South Side Community Art Center and on the Executive Committee for the American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk. She has been recognized as one of PR Week’s 40 under 40 Rising Stars, Ariel Investments and WVON’s 1690 40 Game Changers in Chicago and has received numerous awards for her marketing communications campaigns from Bulldog Reporter, PCC, NABJ, and other organizations. A native of Chicago’s south suburbs, she is married and currently resides in Chicago and Atlanta.

Sarah Scott is the founder of Elite Media Strategies, a social media management company that focuses on helping early stage businesses get comfortable with using social media. She has spent more than 13 years training technology with the last 3 as a University lecturer. And while she loves seeing more companies step up to teach what they know from experience, she has also noticed a gap in how well business sell courses and the actual course that is delivered. As a whole the industry is getting a bad rep for charging high prices but not delivering on their promises. This in turn makes buyers hesitant to purchase courses that are not from "educational institutions." She is looking to help change that by showing her clients that they can still profit from their hard earn knowledge and deliver exceptional training at scale.

Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of SparkToro, makers of fine audience research software. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you bribe him with great pasta or fancy cocktails, he’ll pull back the curtain on big tech’s dark secrets.

Brooke B. Sellas is the CEO & Founder of B Squared Media, an award-winning digital marketing agency focusing on social media management, advertising, and social-led customer care. Her marketing mantra is “Think Conversation, Not Campaign” – and she believes in it so much that she wrote a book on it called, Conversations That Connect.
Additionally, she teaches a Digital Marketing course (virtually) at the University of California in Irvine.

Chris P Giles is founder and lead creator at Black Thai Media where they help entrepreneurs and content creators navigate and monetize in a digital world. He has spent the last 18 years in the entertainment and live events industry where he has done everything from DJing, audio engineering, video engineering and more for live and virtual events. He also currently handles marketing and business development for J Street Productions.

As a content creator, gamer, and experienced tech live streamer; he took a huge interest in blockchain technology and what it had to offer the everyday consumer. This opened the door for a lot of his new projects and the opportunity to help others get ahead of the curve, find their space, and monetize in Web3. He’s been a guest on numerous podcasts & shows, spoken at Vidfest, Podfest Masterclass Summit and on the Grow with Google platform.

Mordecai Holtz serves as the Social Media Strategist at Ericsson, a global leader in the telecom space. In this role, Mordecai works with diverse teams to devise and craft activation strategies for campaigns throughout the company. Prior to joining Ericsson, he served as the Director of Global Branding at United Hatzalah of Israel, dubbed the Uber of Lifesaving. Mordecai also served as the New Media Director of the City of Jerusalem's Tourism Division, which gained global recognition in 2019 when Bloomberg ranked Jerusalem as the fastest growing destination in the world.

In addition to these roles, Mordecai is part of the Adobe Insiders Global influencers. His articles have been featured in Fast Company, National Geographic, Social Bakers, HackerNoon, and The Jerusalem Post. Mordecai hosted his own podcast Empathize IT about entrepreneurship and empathy.
Over the years, he's spoken at the Jerusalem Travel Bloggers Summit 2019, Engage Prague 2020 and 2018, TBEX 2017, and IMEX Frankfurt.

Number 1 trusted advisor for ecommerce agencies across the globe. As former COO of a leading Shopify Plus agency, I've since acted as fractional-COO for over 60 eCommerce agencies across the globe to help them implement best practice systems and processes to grow profitably.

Leading authority in systematizing and scaling eCommerce agencies. Dedicated to maximizing agency efficiency and enabling agency owners to get out of the day-to-day of running their agency so they can focus on taking it to the next level.

From building scalable retainer models to coaching high-performing leadership teams, I work witheCommerce agencies to simplify the next steps in scaling their eCommerce agency.

Milou is a social media strategist, coach, speaker, influencer, and founder of Simply Media and Advertising, LLC. She’s originally from the Netherlands and resides in Austin, Texas. Simply Media and Advertising is a boutique social media marketing agency who help 6-figure female CEOs scale their impact on social media through organic strategies and execution.

Called the “Zen Master to Digital Marketers” by Forbes, Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, past agency owner, executive coach, investor, two-time bestselling author including a TOP 150 USA best-selling book, and Forbes Columnist. Bryan also created a global movement and is known for his keynotes, book, and and global TEDTalk on “There Is No BtoB or B2C: It’s Human-to-Human, H2H. He is the co-founder of H2H Companies, an executive training company, and co-founded PureMatter, a Silicon Valley marketing agency in 2001, a $30 million agency which earned a spot as one of the “Fastest Growing Companies” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal over 22 years. Bryan has spoken all over the world, over 250 times at companies like Harvard, Mastercard, L‘oreal Paris, NASA, GoDaddy, Charles Schwab, SXSW, International Culinary Institute, Verizon, Dell, NFL, and Hawaii Lodging & Tourism.

Ekaterina Walter is a globally recognized business and marketing innovator, international speaker, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She is an author of 3 business books, including The Power of Visual Storytelling and The Laws of Brand Storytelling. Her two decades of experience as a brand marketer and storyteller includes a blended perspective of Fortune 500, start-up, and nonprofit environments. Ekaterina’s thought leadership has been featured on CNBC, ABC, CNN, Forbes, TechCrunch, Fast Company, and WSJ, among others.

Mitch Jackson is an award-winning California trial lawyer who was named 2009 Orange County Trial Lawyer of the Year and 2013 California Litigation Lawyer of the Year. He’s helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and businesses with their startup and litigation needs. In addition to being profiled in top marketing books and websites including INC., Mashable, and The Wall Street Journal, Mitch has keynoted and presented at events including the Tony Robbins Business Mastery. Mitch is the founder of the global LegalMinds Mastermind created to help professionals build their brands on social media and his new book, “The Ultimate Guide to Social Media for Business Owners, Professionals and Entrepreneurs” quickly became a #1 best seller on Amazon and top #1 new release in two categories. You can connect with Mitch at Streaming.Lawyer

A senior marketing executive, Jonathan Jacobs is a founding parter of the award-winning digital marketing agency Digital Natives Group. Founded in 2011, Jonathan was part of a leadership team the scaled and successfully exited the business in 2021. Along the way, the firm built a client roster that included global sports leagues, Fortune 500 businesses and CEOs, and New York Times bestselling authors. Their projects landed atop both the New York Times Bestsellers list and Apple App Store listings. Within the firm, Jonathan was specifically in charge of heading up campaign and content strategy, and was responsible for building the organization's talent pipeline.

Leslie is founder and President of The Search Guru, an 18-year-old digital marketing agency providing businesses visibility, targeted traffic and improved conversion rates. A seasoned Internet Marketing Professional (1999) trained by early SEO icons, Leslie holds a journalism degree and has been named one of the Top Women in SEO, a Top Content Marketing Influencer, Expert to Follow, and a #Techstars Anywhere Lead Mentor. She has presented to the National Direct Marketing Association, SMX West, General Electric, and other national and regional groups. Leslie and her team are focusing on optimizing content marketing processes and producing results. She will share research findings and the top ranking factor in Google for 2022.

Nice to “digitally” meet you! I’m Rachael Mattice, the main marketing maven behind RM Creative Services.

Hustle, integrity and hard work are values that came with my Midwestern upbringing that I brought with me throughout my corporate career. I held prestigious leadership roles like Group Managing Editor to Content Director to Social Media Strategist managing complex campaigns and initiatives for small businesses and multi-billion-dollar corporations … all while building my personal brand as a freelance journalist, copywriter and photographer.

But I found the clients I was working with in my corporate jobs were seeking to work with me one-on-one. I realized that I was already building my own personal brand, I just needed to amplify it in a style that spoke to who I was and the clients I wanted to work with.

And just like that … RM Creative Services was born.

Robert has more than 25 years of experience in digital marketing, and the strategic use of content to drive better customer experiences. He’s advised more than 200 companies, including McDonald’s, Facebook, Allstate Insurance, Adidas, LinkedIn, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Robert has served as the Chief Strategy Advisor of The Content Marketing Institute since its launch in 2010 and helping guide it to be the leading global content marketing education and training organization. Robert is the author of three best-selling books on marketing and content strategy, and is the co-host of the popular marketing podcast This Old Marketing.

Stephanie Liu is a live video strategist for brands and entrepreneurs–from moonwalkers to MasterChefs–who want to go from unknown to unforgettable. 

A digital marketing expert with 15 years of ad agency experience, she led paid search advertising for one of the largest search agencies in the United States, served as the Director of Social Strategy for San Diego’s leading ad agency, and has created powerful campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and small businesses. 

Today, Stephanie has helped thousands of her clients and students get on the Fascination Fast Track™ to ignite their ideas and become confident on camera. 

As a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainer, Stephanie teaches brain hacks to help people overcome their fears of public speaking by rewiring their minds for success. With her proven system, clients discover how to create crave-worthy content, get audiences buzzing with excitement, and how to deliver a spell-binding presentation that hooks viewers in. 

Her client, MasterChef Claudia Sandoval, drove 178K downloads of her book from her first live stream within 24 hours. She’s also coached astronaut Jessica Meir and her team for a live interview in space. 

Named as one of the Top 50 Digital Marketing Thought Leaders by the University of Missouri St. Louis, her work has been recognized and awarded by Forbes, Online Marketing Media And Advertising, PR Daily, Forrester, and Gartner 1to1 Media. 

Stephanie is the host of Lights, Camera, Live, and the co-founder of Leap Into Live Streaming Bootcamp. She has spoken at Social Media Marketing World, VidCon, Podcast Movement, and many more. Stephanie is also the co-author of Ultimate Guide to Social Media, published by Entrepreneur Press. She lives in San Diego, CA.

Jim Fuhs is President of Fuhsion Marketing. Jim is a retired Marine LtCol turned digital marketing consultant, speaker, live streamer on The Tim and Jim Show and Dealcasters on Amazon Live, podcaster, remote live stream and virtual event producer with over 30 years of business and social media experience.

Jim does Marketing the Marine Corps Way and fuses Marine Corps Leadership with Marketing. His 20 plus years of highly successful leadership experience as a Marine Corps Officer lets him bring that to bear in the ever changing world of Marketing and Technology.

Alex Dumas is THE Life Success Creator for emerging leaders, coaches, and entrepreneurs. He is an expert in sales and marketing, with a track record generating six figures in revenue and six-figure launches. Alex has a background in psychology and a decade of leadership experience in the non-profit world.

The most important things about him are that he is a husband, father, and dog dad as well as the CEO of Abundance Daily Coaching and the host of the daily podcast, Love! Serve! Care!

Alex operates his life and business with 4 simple words “Have Fun Helping People” through lighthearted, powerful coaching conversations and his signature leadership development training, Play and W.I.N.

Kristen Donnelly (MSW, M.Div, PhD) is an award winning, four time TEDx speaker, international empathy educator, and researcher with two decades of experience in helping people understand the beauty in difference, and the power in inclusivity. She is one of The Good Doctors of Abbey Research, COO of their parent company, co-founder of the Community Research Institute, and an unapologetic nerd for stories of change. Kristen is a regular contributor to Forbes, Medium, and Thrive Global. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, where they are surrounded by piles of books and several video game consoles.

Words are Mia Francis-Poulin's jam. A conversion copywriter, native New Orleanian, and Parks and Rec enthusiast, Mia (along with her team of dedicated copywriters and content strategists) helps online business owners to find the right words to market their products confidently — and without the sleaze. She's the CEO and Copywriter-in-Chief of The Copy Haus® -- the one-stop, flat-rate copywriting subscription for businesses that want to market their message authentically, ethically, and profitably.

Darryl Praill is the Chief Marketing Officer at Agorapulse, the award-winning social media management platform. Darryl is a funny, high-energy, in-demand event host and panel moderator, an accomplished award-winning marketer, a Sales World Top 50 Keynote speaker and multi-time gold medalist content creator, a Top 10 SaaS Branding Expert, a Top 19 B2B Marketer to Watch, voted by LinkedIn as a Top 3 Marketer and a Top 30 Sales Leader, a social media influencer, a category-leading podcaster, and a serial entrepreneur. Darryl has raised almost $100 million in venture capital, acquired, merged and taken companies public, been hired and fired, and worked with companies of all sizes.

Wendee Lee Curtis, Event Host, Emcee, and Moderator, is a Veteran News Anchor and Broadway Performer bringing the art of news-level production, live entertainment, and the magic of connection to your virtual events. 

Her experience in both the corporate and theatrical worlds makes her an ideal presenter for hybrid events that need to reach all attendees, virtual or in-house, to be memorable. With her expert knowledge and powerful presence, Wendee will keep your audience engaged from beginning to end.

Wendee's moderator and emcee experience also include live events for numerous pharmaceutical and Fortune 100 companies: AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare, Pfizer, Moderna, Sanofi, Roche, Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pepsi, Grant Thornton, Thomson Reuters, and many, many more.

Kevin Namaky is the founder and CEO of Gurulocity Brand Management Institute. He provides marketing training and consulting services for brand management leaders at consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms, including Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Bolthouse Farms and Nestlé. By combining his training as an educator with his 20 years of experience as a CPG executive, he’s been able to help his clients realize over $1B in new revenue and has trained more than 1,000 brand managers.

Kevin is a featured instructor for the American Marketing Association, lectures at the IU Kelley School of Business, and has been featured in Ad Age, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider and the CMO Council.

Martin Waxman, MCM, APR, writes a popular Digital Marketing Trends newsletter, leads social media training workshops, and conducts AI research. He’s a LinkedIn Learning instructor, co-founder of two agencies, and president of a consultancy. He’s also a member of the Institute for Public Relations Digital Media Research Center and the Schulich Future of Marketing Institute. Martin teaches digital strategy and social media at McMaster University, the York Schulich School of Business, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and Seneca College and regularly speaks at events across North America. Martin received the Institute for Public Relations Best Master’s Thesis Award in 2019 and the Canadian Public Relations Society’s Outstanding Achievement in PR Award in 2020. He has a Master of Communications Management from McMaster-Syracuse Universities.

I am an entrepreneur who grew up in the deep South, raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi by people who taught me to work hard and do what is right. I started my first agency, GETUWired, in 2003 in my upstairs bedroom with absolutely nothing. After growing GETUWired into a multi-million dollar agency, winning 2012 Technology Partner Of The Year, 2013 Infusionsoft Innovator Of The Year, Top Company Culture - Entrepreneur Magazine in 2015, and Infusionsoft Elite Business Of The Year Finalist in 2015, and many more accomplishments, I decided to step out and retire. I took the advice of Jim Collins and the Infusionsoft Leadership and began handing off leadership responsibilities, eventually leading to my retirement from the agency in early 2014. Then in June of 2016 I sold out the remaining shares to my long time partners to pursue my passion of mentoring small businesses. Leading, guiding, mentoring and encouraging other entrepreneurs down a slightly easier road than I had, is my true mission! By combining timeless old school philosophies with automation and the cloud, my team and I have created the perfect combination that allowed me to work smarter by actually working less - giving me the time to take care of myself and my family - therefore, allowing me the quality of life I and every entrepreneur needs and deserves!

John Lee is a digital advertising professional with experience in PPC, display advertising, social advertising, SEO and analytics. At Microsoft Advertising, John is the Head of Search Evangelism engaging with the industry through speaking, blogging and working with influencers and journalists. He has been in the digital advertising industry since 2006 working with Hanapin Marketing, Wordstream and as co-owner of Clix Marketing.

John is a regular contributor to industry publications such as Search Engine Journal and was instrumental in the creation and launch of popular paid search advertising blog PPC Hero. In addition to his writing, John has been a speaker at numerous conferences including SMX, HeroConf, DigiMarCon, Digital Summit and PubCon.

Amanda Robinson is The Digital Gal. She is widely recognized in the digital marketing industry for her knowledge, training, skills and coaching as a Facebook Ads expert with her Swift Kick In the Ads Membership, her 4 Week Facebook Ads Training Bootcamp, and for her creative chatbot skills. She is an author, international speaker, consultant, and educator who has taught thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs the foundational skills of Facebook Ads. Amanda brings personality and passion to teaching others how to make Facebook ads work for them.

I'm a proud dad and founder of Partnerhub.app - a unique new marketplace and partner management solutions built for digital agencies to find, vet, manage and enable their partners.

In 2006, I founded my first agency with the intention of creating full transparency marketing programs to help his clients learn to operate the strategies without him.

While this was successful - the agency secured dozens of $5K+ retainers, the unique model of training the clients while executing was too altruistic and not scalable.

Eventually, the agency morphed into a directory called Automated.af which helped match marketing automation experts to businesses who needed them.

In operating this marketplace, I discovered how few of these saas platforms in the automations actually enabled the agency experts to sell services on top of their solutions.

This was the genesis of the research which inevitably became Partnerhub®.

I've spent my career helping founders and teams to build and execute creative growth systems. Now, I am helping digital agencies find strategic and referral partnerships using our community and Partnerhub.app/

Follow me and #PowerToThePartners to stay updated.

Maryna Burushkina is the Founder & CEO at Growth Channel, as well as a Digital Marketing Consultant and Trainer. She has helped hundreds of multinational companies (Fortune 100 and startups) reshape their marketing to drive accelerated growth over the last decade. Maryna is also a Co-Founder of a successful FinTech marketing agency - 7Marketz Group. Now she is leading Growth Channel, a MarTech platform for marketers & agencies to plan, launch, and optimize their omnichannel programmatic ad campaigns.

Gray MacKenzie from ZenPilot is a true operations nerd with a passion for helping digital agencies build healthy, productive, and profitable teams.

Gray has built ZenPilot into ClickUp's largest and highest-rated implementation partner, and has spent the past decade helping over 2600 agencies streamline their operations.

He and his wife are raising 4 wonderful young children in western Pennsylvania and are always looking for new travel and adventure recommendations. If you have a favorite trip, reach out and let Gray know!

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and best-selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur, and The Ultimate Marketing Engine. He is also the founder of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network, which trains and licenses independent consultants and agencies to use the Duct Tape Methodology. His keynotes and training motivate and engage audiences around the world at industry and trade events.

Carly Martinetti is the Co-founder of Notably, a boutique public relations firm with a focus on earned media. A creative, insightful entrepreneur, Carly began her career as an assistant producer for the nationally-recognized Dr. Phil Show, and then went on to found her own company, Pretty Litter (now one of the leading cat litter products in the U.S.) which she later sold to a venture capital company. Carly also opened and ran Warner Communications’ Los Angeles office, working with a roster of B2B and B2C companies. She then joined a leading independent PR firm and was swiftly promoted to partner. During her tenure there, Carly oversaw a portfolio of startups, gaining a reputation for being able to make just about any company newsworthy. Today, Carly focuses her expansive skills on creating topical, newsworthy coverage for Notably’s clients.

Former 2 time software development agency owner turned SaaS founder. Got addicted to running during the pandemic, when basketball courts became unavailable. Love playing music, currently teaching myself the guitar, strugglingly with bar chords.

Anne is a serial entrepreneur who has sold two of her previous startups. She was also founder of Start Up Nation, a Southeast Asian angel investment fund. Through her experience in the startup ecosystem, investment banking, and consulting through nonprofits, she has worked with early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies and brings the unique lens of being both a founder and a funder. She is currently the CEO and founder of Supercharge Lab.

Drew McLellan has worked in advertising for 30+ years and started his own agency, McLellan Marketing Group in 1995 after a five-year stint at Y&R and still actively runs the agency.

He also owns and runs Agency Management Institute (AMI), which serves thousands of agencies small to mid-sized agencies (advertising, digital, marketing, media and PR) every year, so they can increase their AGI, attract better clients and employees, mitigate the risks of being self-employed in a such volatile business and best of all — let the agency owner actually enjoy the perks of agency ownership.

AMI is the only agency network that is run by an active agency owner. It offers:

 Public workshops for agency owners, leaders and account service staff
 Owner peer networks (like a Vistage group or AAAA’s forums)
 Private coaching/consulting for agency owners
 Annual primary research with CMOs and client decision makers about their work with agencies
 The highly praised podcast Build A Better Agency
 The only conference built for small to mid-sized agencies – the Build A Better Agency Summit

Drew often appears in publications like Entrepreneur Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, AdAge, CNN, BusinessWeek, and many others. The Wall Street Journal calls him “one of 10 bloggers every entrepreneur should read.”

He’s also written several books, the most recent being Sell with Authority (January 2020). The latest book has garnered rave reviews and has been the guidebook for agency growth and business development in today’s world.

Drew also speaks at leading agency and marketing conferences like Inbound, Content Marketing World and MAICON and is often cited in agency centric content for his expertise in the industry.

When he’s not hanging out with clients or agency owners and their staff, Drew spends time with his daughter and following his World Series winning Dodgers.

Drew has a Master’s Degree from the University of Minnesota but alas, he cannot remember their fight song.

Sydney McNeill (they/them) is a queer, multiply neurodivergent strategist, leader, educator and communicator. They are grateful to be an uninvited settler in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. Sydney merges social justice, thoughtful change and creative storytelling, taking a holistic and human approach to inclusive strategy, programs, communications and education. Sydney is currently a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Brand Strategist at AndHumanity Inclusive Marketing Agency. Prior to that, they served on the leadership team for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. They are completing their Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University, uniting the fields of leadership, social justice and communication. They are also a parent, a creative writer and a nature lover.

Hopeless creative, artistic innovator, and designer of about a million and one things.

After graduating from the University of Central Florida and receiving my Bachelors in Event Management, I took my skills in graphic design, copywriting, and content creation to a career in digital marketing.

Karl Sakas (@KarlSakas) helps people at agencies make smarter decisions for smoother growth. Drawing on his background in agency operations, Karl has personally advised hundreds of agencies on every inhabited continent. He is the author of 'Made to Lead', 'The In-Demand Marketing Agency', and more than 400 articles on agency management. When he’s not helping clients, Karl volunteers as a bartender on an antique train. Get a free copy of his eBook 'Don’t Just Make the Logo Bigger: Taking Clients from Painful to Profitable' when you sign up for his free agency business tips. https://sakasandcompany.com/lp/newsletter/

Jeff is a public relations professional with a deep background in communications and crisis strategy. He embodies the ideal blend of passion, capability and culture. Jeff brings a lot to the table, having developed communications strategies for heavy hitters like Microsoft, Faurecia and Wanova and notably for Advanced Wireless Group (AWG) in its efforts to overtake Boingo Wireless in DAS and Wi-Fi installations at airports throughout the United States. Using contemporary and traditional PR techniques Jeff knows how to get the message out to influence the right people and drive the right results.

Seattle based content creator and consultant. Creator of iMovie Made Easy. Cohost of video marketing value podcast.

Jon Wuebben is the Founder & CEO of Content Launch, the first complete content marketing platform built for digital marketing agencies & SMB’s. Content Launch has produced content for over 1,000 companies since 2003. Jon has provided content strategy consultation for Konica Minolta, Intuit, Kimberly Clark, MicroAge and dozens of marketing agencies since 2005.

Jon is the author of the 2017 book, “Future Marketing: Winning in the Prosumer Age”. Jon’s 2012 book, “Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web & Mobile”, has been published in six countries worldwide.

Jon has spoken at Content Marketing World, Content Marketing Conference, Online Marketing Summit, South by Southwest (SXSW), Marketing Profs B2B Forum, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Social Media Marketing World, New Media Expo, Intelligent Content Conference, Content Marketing Retreat, Lavacon, ADMA (Australia), BIA Kelsey Small Business Forum, the Media Relations Summit and for many organizations, including Hubspot, the American Marketing Association and Shop.org as well as industry groups. He has been listed as a thought leader in the marketing industry by countless publications since 2008.

Jon is a recognized expert on the topics of content marketing, content strategy, marketing technology and the future of marketing. Jon has an MBA in International Marketing from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. In the political world, he has worked for Senator John McCain, Vice President Dan Quayle and the Republican National Convention.

Find out more at www.futuremarketingbook.com

Rachel Schapiro is a marketing expert who specializes in helping businesses make the most of technology. She started her first business when she was still in college, helping local small businesses build their web presence and shift from offline to online advertising.
As Director of Product Marketing at vcita, Rachel supports business owners as they venture into the digital space. She’s a tech lover at heart and loves using apps to create new opportunities and enable success.

Kate Skavish - is a serial entrepreneur and has a decade of experience in digital marketing and in inbound sales. She used to wear many hats and knows from personal experience the struggle of building a company from the ground up. Kate is a co-founder and Head of Marketing at Wave.video a world-class online platform for Agencies and Social media managers that helps to scale video making, repurposing, and editing to increase ROI and stand out on social.

Holding a Master's degree in Applied Math allows Kate to say that numbers and KPI's, in particular, are a girl's best friend.

👋 Hi! I’m Ruheene

aka The Bot Girl 🤓

My superpower involves setting up marketing systems and automation for business owners who value their time above all else- and realize that scaling a business requires working smarter not harder 🧠

I spent about 14 years of my career as a Visual Effects Production Manager on various Marvel projects, a freelance Web Designer, and running my own Facebook advertising agency.

I pivoted my focus to marketing automation in early 2020 when I started meeting a flood of online business owners who had amazing ideas, offers and products….but without a marketing plan that could deliver sustainable, scalable results in the long run.

They were either doing too much because they didn't know how to automate their business, or too little because they didn't think they had a budget big enough for their dreams.

The answer? Simple systems and templates that plugged right into their business to make more sales- on autopilot.

No crazy marketing budget required.

Will these systems work for your business?

If you are an agency or small business looking to grow an email list and make more sales in a sustainable, systematic way- absolutely.

Known as the Queen of Relationship Marketing, Jessika is on a mission to redefine corporate America and create something she wanted to be part of. Jessika founded NOW Marketing Group in 2010 with only a laptop and a vision to give people with heart an upper hand. NOW Marketing Group was recognized as Inc. Best places to work 2022, is a Forbes recognized Agency Partner, Partnered with Facebook, Google and and a certified inbound partner with Hubspot.
NOW Marketing Group works with more than 100 clients across the United States and beyond, choosing to serve – not sell. Jessika lives by a personal mission of helping inspire people to love more, give more and be more through authentic relating and proving doing what’s right, not what’s easy can turn a vision to a profitable agency that produces results.

Katelyn is the owner of HAVE SOUL, a social media and content marketing studio that aims to help brands foster deeper, more meaningful relationships with their audiences. She has over five years of experience in the social media and content marketing space and has worked on over 70 brands, including Adidas, Under Armour, Volvo, Sun Bum, Coca Cola, Dove, Glade, and many others.

As CMO, Ed is responsible for developing and executing all of Adriel's marketing, PR, content marketing and social media efforts. Ed brings 25 years of C Level leadership experience across a range of media and technology companies and is the founder of DSC Consulting, a startup accelerator. Ed lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters and can be found surfing or playing his guitar in his free time.

Fernando Angulo is Senior Market Research at Semrush. He has been with Semrush since the beginning of the company's marketing efforts and has built its all-star marketing team. Being one of the most recognized faces of the brand, Fernando is speaking at 50+ top conferences worldwide each year. Fernando specializes in B2B search marketing, e-commerce, influencer marketing, and trained marketing teams of companies such as Expedia, T-mobile, Prestashop, and Bing.