WordCamp Philly will feature so many new speakers this year. Chris Berkley, Donna Botti, Nikki Kriss, Justin Nealey and Gayle Williams join 2017 veterans Pam Aungst and Diane Varner in our second round of speakers.
Read on to find out more these talented professionals. We’ll be announcing our third round soon, plus more information about the WordPress 101 track presenters and panels for this year.
Pam Aungst
Pam is the owner of Pam Ann Marketing and Stealth™ Search and Analytics. Both specialize in SEO, PPC, and analytics. She is a passionate advocate for WordPress and regularly gives talks at WordCamps around the country about SEO, Google Analytics, and business topics. Pam also has a personal mission to talk openly about mental health and the importance of taking care of oneself in order to survive and thrive at work and at home.
Chris Berkley
Chris Berkley is a digital marketing consultant specializing in SEO & Website Analytics. Chris has lived in Philly for three years and started a business here 18 months ago, with the support of a fantastic tech community.
Donna Botti
Donna Botti is the owner of Delos Incorporated, a website development and digital marketing company in the Philadelphia area. Donna has been working with WordPress since 2010, creating websites and applications that help businesses grow and improve their processes. Donna frequently speaks to business organizations on how to make the web work for them and blogs regularly.
Nikki Kriss
Nikki Kriss is a digital marketing nerd with a decade of experience in email marketing, currently sending 10 million emails a month for SiteLock. She loves dinosaurs, magic, space and talking about her toddler.
Justin Nealey
Justin Nealey has been helping people get their ideas online for most of his adult life. He is passionate about WordPress, social media, podcasting, and assisting businesses to execute on their goals. When he’s not leading a team of business consultants at GoDaddy, he’s starting yet another side hustle, the latest being Branding Fit, where he helps personal fitness brands break through the noise and get recognized online.
Gayle Williams
Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, Fla., has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for non-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development. Growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office, and enjoys the work-family balance it provides.
Gayle was an early inbound marketing adopter as a Hubspot partner agency and maintains her Inbound Marketing certification. She is also a WP Elevation-certified Digital Business Consultant. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in adult learning and development.
Diane Varner
Diane is a digital strategist, focusing on inbound strategies to cultivate digital tribes. She believes this begins with great content, content strategy, and customer-centric thinking.