Speakers

Aaron Kahlow	Founder Online Marketing Summit
	Aaron Kahlow currently is the CEO of Online Marketing Connect and serves Chairman & Founder of the Online Marketing Summit and its related educational arm, the Online Marketing Institute. Having delivered hundreds of keynote speeches and seminars nationwide, Aaron is one of the more well known faces in the Online Marketing and Advertising space. In addition to his passion for speaking, Aaron’s best practice ideas are frequently seen in his columns for ClickZ, MarketingProfs, Online Strategies Magazine, Electronic Retailer, iMediaConnection, BtoBOnline, MarketingSherpa, SearchEngineWatch, American Business Media and his personal favorite Online Marketing Connect, the largest repository for quality blogs and articles about all domains of Online Marketing.
Gillian Muessig	Founder and President from SEOMoz
	Gillian Muessig is the founding president of SEOmoz, providers of the world’s most popular Search Marketing applications. SEOmoz.org serves a community of more than 300,000 search marketers around the world; the SEOmoz blog is read by 50,000 SEOs each month. Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian is a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of the future of the industry. She has provided keynotes and sessions for conferences in North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Scandinavia and the UK. Gillian’s radio program, CEO Coach has a global listenership of several thousand entrepreneurs and marketers and airs Mondays at 10AM PST on WebmasterRadio.fm, covering entrepreneurial issues from funding and finance to staffing, marketing, pricing models, and brand development. She serves on the Board of Advisors for companies in four continents.
Nuño Valenzuela	Internet Society, Spanish Chapter – ISOC
	Nuño Valenzuela, member of Internet Society – ISOC, Spanish Chapter, an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related Standards, Education, and Policy. It states that its mission is “to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world”. Current: Halconviajes, Globalia, Spain.
Daniel Robles	International Community Coordinator Hootsuite
	Online Communication Specialist, his training and professional experience has always revolved around communication over the Internet and new digital media. After working for others in differents institutions and as a freelancer, he joined the team of international marketing communication from HootSuite, Canada.
Lakil Essady	Co-Founder of Regalador.com
	Essady Lakil founding partner of original gifts in Regalador.com and independent Consultant in search engine marketing strategies. He helps define and develop visibility strategies in search engine for various Spanish brands. Philologist and nowadays works developing accessible websites for the Banco Santander. He worked for the agency Nurun as SEO and later as Director of Digital Marketing Business Unit Optimization. He is a SEO passionate and also likes to work in the User Experience, Analytics and standards. You can find him on his twitter @lakil and in his blog: SEO 2.0.
Eduardo Fernandez	VP and Managing Director RIM Spain & Mediterranean
	Currently Vice President and General Manager of Research InMotion for Spain and the Mediterranean Region: he is also a member of the Administration Board of RIM Spain. He joined RIM in early 2007 and has played a key role in spreading the popularity of the platform and BlackBerry smartphones.
Ricardo Baeza Yates	Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo!
	Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, and also supervising the lab in Haifa, Israel. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor and founder of the Web Research Group at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains ties with both mentioned universities as a part-time professor for the Ph.D. program.His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web data mining, and data visualization.He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Sundeep Kapur	Founder EmailYogi
	NCR, has been assisting organizations with their converged channel marketing strategies since 1990. From direct marketing to digital to converged, he is a passionate teacher who works with businesses across multiple industries, helping them to enable technology and services to brand, and personalize and speak to consumers more effectively. He is an industry-recognized expert who has delivered keynotes, run panels, and delivered “relevant, inspirational, and outstanding” education for organizations around the world. Sundeep is also an avid user of social media, having leveraged words, pictures, and video into a conversational digital book. His daily dose of best practices can be found at www.EmailYogi.com, where he has more than 1,200 articles on best practices.
Fernando Maciá	Director General de Human Level Communications
	Founder and CEO of Human Level Communications. SEMPO CoChair of Spain. It is one of the most renowned specialists in SEO strategies, in which field he works since 2001. He has led major projects for search engine optimization companies in Spain, France, Venezuela, USA and Colombia. He has published six books on search engine optimization, online marketing, social networks, and written more than fifty technical papers. He is a teacher in subjects related to search engine optimization, architecture of the information and online marketing at several universities and business schools in Spain and Latin America. He is a frequent speaker at major business events.
Jesus Martín	Account Manager Google
	Jesus is Account Manager at Google since 2010. He is focused on the insurance sector where helps top national insurance companies and aggregators to achieve better results with Google products while being mobile advertising specialist and analyst for several industries. He has studied Law and Business Administration with a Master in Economics and currently is teaching at University Rey Juan Carlos courses on Financial and Monetary Economics.
Ester Marinas	Product Marketing Manager Google
	Ester holds a degree in Business Administration from the University Carlos III of Madrid (bilingual). She has been working in the technology sector since 2005 when she started in Amadeus IT Group as a Marketing Executive. After this period she moved to Dublin to continue her career as an account manager at Google and as Online Media Consultant. After this time, she returned to Madrid to work in Google as a Marketing Manager. Ester focuses on enhancing the development of online marketing for companies (SMEs and large companies), by developing and implementing projects to demonstrate the possibilities offered by the online business world.
Javier Cabeza	Specialist in Google Analytics.
	Javier is passionate about Internet and web analytic. After more than five years at Google, including 3 years at the European headquarter in Dublin, now works for Google Spain in the automotive sector to develop its digital strategy at Google. Also, as Google Analytics specialist, devotes his time helping the main customers of Google with the web analytics. He recently completed the Master in Web Analytics directed by Avinash Kaushik.
Alex Frejrud	Founder & President The Glampire Group LLC
	Founder & President The Glampire Group LLC- Hollywood California. The Glampire Group: is a full-service technology & media conglomerate located in hollywood, CA with designers, developers & transmedia strategist located in Stockholm, Sweden and Barcelona, Spain. www.glampiremedia.com, www.glampiremobile.com. Co-Founder www.mobile-label.net; Online Media industry.
Ouali Benmeziane	Founder of WebCongress + SearchCongress
	He is the founder of the WebCongress and SearchCongress. French entrepreneur of 28 years, Ouali comes from Paris where he studied Business at the IFAG. Passionated about the online marketing and communication, he has the goal of providing events and training services around the world.
Xavier Castellnou	Director Comercial BeInventia
	Be Inventia Sales Manager, Online Marketing Consultant who specializes in the development of online projects, SEO, SEM and SMM strategies. He has developed his career in marketing and advertising departments specializing in managing clients and media. He is used to work in large companies that work with marketing services, online and offline, and as a customer loyalty at Channel IP or Directpromo ACL. Its core values are the care and monitoring of customers because experience has shown him that it is an essential factor in the smooth running of the company. Be Inventia currently combines customer needs with special attention to the media.
Alfonso Moure	SEO Manager Relevant Traffic
	SEO specialist in analysis, optimization, architecture of the information and interlinking; very focused on the OnPage optimizing for the positioning and the index acceleration. He worked as a SEO Manager for two years at Muchoviaje.com, as a Technical Director of SEO/SEM at dobleO, and currently works from Relevant Traffic Spain as a SEO Team Leader.
Javier Casares	CEO Keep it Simple Lab/
	In October 2003, he began to work as a technician at ITnet Group, developing some of the sites of this group as JocJuegos and later Aztive Mobile. In November 2003 began his personal project Googlemanía. In May 2006, coinciding with the first congress named OJObuscador he decided to leave his job to create in September 2006: OJO Internet S.L., company where he has devoted a lot of his time. Also, since February 2009, he owns the company Keep It Simple Lab, and works mainly in SEO. There they apply the “labs” for the different projects, always forming and getting customers to increase traffic of these sites.There he is Co-Partner with Jaume Ferré.
Fernando Gavarrón Correas	Multiplica
	System Engineer at the University of Las Palmas de G. C. Web specialist in analytics and optimization. Passionate about web usability, has more than 4 years designing analytics tools and analyzing data from sites to try to identify problems and improvements that can be performed in the same order to maximize the ratios or rates of conversion.
Lee Odden	Top Rank
	Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, specializing in Internet marketing consulting, training, and implementation services. A veteran Internet marketer, Odden has consulted for clients such as HP, McKesson, Gorkana, Marketo and StrongMail. He is the author of “Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing”, and has been cited by The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, and Fortune Magazine. He writes a monthly column for ClickZ called Social Media Smarts and edits Online Marketing Blog, rated a top marketing blog by Advertising Age, Social Media Examiner and Junta42. He also conducts seminars for companies, and regularly presents at marketing, media, and public relations industry conferences world-wide.
Massimo Burgio	SEMPO
	Co-chair of SEMPO Global Committee, founding member of SEMPO Europe, Latin SEMPO and a frequent speaker at the SES. He is also founder of Global Search Interactive, an agency 3.0. Founder, VP Media and Communications at Asturias Cultural Paraiso. He is also Partner and Digital & Strategy at Art Attack Advertising. Chair, Sempo Latino en SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
Albert López	Co-Fundador y CCO de Uvinum & Sportivic
	Co-founder and CCO (responsible for Content/SEO) of Verticomm Network: Uvinum & Sportivic, vertical marketplaces of social e-commerce internationally. Co-creator of Splitweet. SEO Advisor (freelance) in derecho.com, Mailxmail, mobifriends and nexoblogs. Former SEO Manager in Softonic (3 years). Expert /specialist in SEO, Social media and Web analytics. Singer in the group of acoustic versions of rock: Coverage.
Michele Lo Forte	Founder Kifulab
	Founder of Kifulab an Italian web development startup. Specialist in WordPress and applications for Facebook.

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