Florian Salman – Founder of WP Bug Detector
I am Florian Sami Salman, founder of WP Bug Detector, former WordPress freelancer (top 3 on Google in Germany), and former drummer for the band MATIJA, a well-known indie band in Germany – and yes… I quit everything to fully…
Katie Keith – Co-Founder & CEO at Barn2 Plugins
My name is Katie Keith, Co-Founder and CEO at Barn2 Plugins. I was born in 1981 and spent my childhood living in South West England. My family lived opposite a park, where I spent many hours with my sister and…
Frank Goossens – Founder of Optimizing Matters
I am Frank Goossens, founder of Optimizing Matters, the developer of Autoptimize, and some other WordPress plugins. Optimizing Matters houses the commercial aspects of my WordPress work. I was born, raised, and still living in the northern part of Belgium in…
Brian Jackson – Founder of Perfmatters & Forgemedia
I am Brian Jackson, an entrepreneur, content marketer, and WordPress agency owner from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. I’m a PK (pastor’s kid) and growing up, we moved around a bit. I've lived in a couple of interesting places over the years:…
Michael Makijenko – Founder of Visual Composer
I am Michael Makijenko, the founder and CEO of Visual Composer. I'm from Riga, Latvia, and together with my team we are proudly serving and helping users worldwide to get their business online. I have a master’s degree in Telecommunications,…
Jean Baptiste – Co-founder of WP Rocket
I am Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier (a pretty complicated name right?), people call me JB that’s much easier. I’m the co-founder and CEO of WP Media. Our mission is to help people having faster websites. We have two products so far WP…
Anthony Gordon – Founder of WooSignal
My name is Anthony Gordon, founder of WooSignal, RoomsLocal, CodaMarket, and a few other startups. I’m originally from Birmingham, UK (near Moseley Village). I still visit Birmingham now and again but I travel around more nowadays. My childhood has been…
Adrian Spiac – Co-founder of TranslatePress
I am Adrian Spiac, co-founder of TranslatePress & Cozmoslabs. We focus on building quality WordPress plugins while working 4 days/week (Fridays OFF). I’ve been using WordPress for over 11 years now and launched our first WordPress product in 2011. I’m currently…
Benjamin Denis – Founder of SEOPress
My name is Benjamin Denis, founder of SEOPress, I live in Anglet, France (right next to Biarritz, which is popular among surfers). 12 years ago I started working with WordPress in my spare time as a student of Economics Management…
Oliver Sild – Founder of WebArx
I am Oliver Sild, the founder of WebARX, a web security company protecting websites from third-party code (such as WordPress plugins/themes) vulnerabilities. I live in Estonia where I have previously co-founded a co-working space and a cybersecurity community CTF Pärnu,…
Yoni Luksenberg – Co-founder of Elementor
My name is Yoni Luksenberg and I am from Bnei Brak, Israel. I've been working with WordPress for close to ten years now. Before that, I was a video editor and used to work with animating flash banners. One day,…
