Ben Sibley – Co-Founder of Independent Analytics
I grew up in West Chester, a cozy town in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I attended college at Temple University, and have been in Philly ever since. I’ve always been drawn to entrepreneurship and launched numerous side businesses during my…
Amir Helzer – Founder of WPML
My name is Amir Helzer, the Founder of WPML. Since 2021, I have been living in Madrid. When I was a kid, I loved building stuff and started programming on my Commodore 64 and Apple IIC when I was 12.…
June 30, 2021 / PluginsMy name is Arindo Duque, the founder, and CEO of a WordPress plugin shop called NextPress. I was born and raised in Brazil (which is where most of our staff is also from), but I’ve been living in Madrid, Spain…
June 8, 2021 / Plugins, WordCamp SpeakersMy name is Jamie Madden, the founder and lead developer of WC Vendors, and co-organizer of the Saigon WordPress meetup. I grew up in Brisbane, Australia, where I spent my childhood and university years. Now, I’m living in Saigon, Vietnam.…
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May 30, 2021 / PluginsMy name is Spencer Forman, from Chicago Illinois! I’m the founder of LaunchFlows, an expert in WordPress, Marketing Automation, ECommerce, and Sales Psychology. I have degrees in Psychology, Law, Real Estate, Insurance, and Aviation, but I have been an entrepreneur…
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May 7, 2021 / PluginsI am Chris Badgett, CEO, and co-founder of LifterLMS. I live on a small farm in a small town on the coast of Maine in the United States. I grew up in North Carolina and studies Anthropology, Sustainable Development, and…
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February 25, 2021 / PluginsMy name is Sebastiaan van der Lans, the founder of WordProof, and I live in Amsterdam with my soon-to-be-husband Mirco. I started studying to become an engineer. In 2016, I started my WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’ and switched my study to…
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February 9, 2021 / PluginsI am Anh Tran, the founder of the Meta Box plugin for WordPress. Many people know me via the nickname Rilwis when I first started with WordPress (sharing my knowledge on my personal Deluxe Blog Tips blog). I’m living in…
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December 13, 2020 / PluginsI am Adrian, the CEO of Groundhogg Inc., FormLift.NET, and co-founder of MailHawk.io. I help small businesses launch their funnel, grow their list, and scale their business with proven digital marketing tools and strategies. I’m from Toronto, Ontario in Canada…
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November 9, 2020 / PluginsI am Vito Peleg, the founder of Atarim, originally from Israel and based in London, UK. I was not the best student in school, but I was always curious, inventing little things from a young age - I always preferred…
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September 13, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Shikhil Sharma, an entrepreneur who loves the art of cybersecurity and building products that make the internet a more secure place. I got attracted to ‘hacking’ as a teenager. Breaking websites, learning how systems can be hacked…
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August 30, 2020 / PluginsI am Natalie MacLees, the founder of Simply Schedule Appointments, but my friends and family affectionately call me "Nat." Experiences in my childhood highlighted the inequities in the world for me. As I grew up, I got more and more…
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July 30, 2020 / PluginsI 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…
