Meet the SEO thought-leaders heading up this year's program

Each year, CMSEO brings together some of the leading SEO entrepreneurs from around the world to share
insider tips and help you level up your game. This year, we’re excited to have presentations from
ten speakers who are industry change-makers.

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Gael Breton

Co-Founder, Authority Hacker

Gael is one of the founders of Authority Hacker: the place to learn how to start and grow authority sites. Gael ran an online marketing agency for four years with his partner Mark Webster serving clients like Expedia, Macy’s or 99Designs. After being fed up with the service business, they both decided to start building their own authority sites in 2011 and never looked back since then.

Kyle Roof

Lead SEO, High Voltage SEO, PageOptimizer Pro

Kyle is the Lead SEO for High Voltage SEO, a bespoke SEO firm with locations in Melbourne, Berlin, and Phoenix. An active member of the SEO science community, over the past three years Kyle has conducted more than 250 SEO tests on Google’s algorithm.

Barry Adams

Founder & SEO Consultant Polemic Digital

Barry Adams is an award-winning SEO consultant specialising in technical SEO for news publishers and ecommerce websites. He’s been active in SEO since 1998 and has worked with a wide range of clients, from micro-businesses to the world’s largest media companies.

Stacey MacNaught

SEO and Content Marketing Specialist

Stacey started her career in 2009, buying links for brands in competitive spaces. Fast forward 10 years and her work centres more on the content production and promotion side of SEO. She runs her own small consultancy outside Manchester, UK and has spoken at events including BrightonSEO, Learn Inbound, Mozcon, Friends of Search and Digital Elite Day.

Nick Nimmin

TuberTools.com

Nick helps content creators grow their brands and businesses using YouTube, where he shares the tools, resources, and information video creators need to grow their presence online. Nick has grown his own YouTube subscriber base by over 460k subscribers, added 10’s of thousands of targeted readers to his email list, and turned his website TuberTools.com into a growing resource for the video making community. Nick also hosts a weekly stream called Nimmin Live with his brother Dee.

Charles Floate

Founder of DFYLinks.com & CharlesFloate.com

Charles is a serial SEO entrepreneur who has become one of the most recognized names in SEO due to his anti-Google mantra. Agree or disagree with his views on SEO, it’s always interesting to see his take on the state of our industry and the most up to date tactics used to manipulate the algorithms.

Grant Simmons

VP, Performance Marketing Homes.com

Grant Simmons leads the Performance Marketing team at Homes.com, helping drive brand awareness and traffic to one of the nation’s top real estate sites. Grant has over 25 years of agency & brand experience serving industry-leading organizations including Paramount Studios, Red Bull, M&M/Mars, Disney, Napster, Warner Bros., UPS, Move.com, YPO, GE, Amgen & Fox Sports.

Jonathan Kiekbusch

Founder, SEOButler.com

Serial entrepreneur, Jonathan is both the founder of SEOButler and the i2W Agency. With a passion for people and building teams, Jonathan’s focus is on finding new and innovative ways to enable individuals to do their best. His methodology of putting people first has resulted in a customer focused, infinite game strategy that has enabled his businesses to grow greatly year-over-year.

Travis Jamison

Director, Moat Ventures

Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and small business acquirer. Founded a dozen bootstrapped cashflow companies, leading to both a 7-figure and an 8-figure exit, invested in 50+ startups, and has acquired a handful of small internet businesses. SEO has always been the secret sauce behind it.

Victor Karpenko

CEO, SeoProfy

Victor’s most impressive accomplishment is getting 2,500,000 unique visitors in a day from Google to one project in a dating niche. With over 12 years experience in SEO, Victor is a master at cracking highly competitive niches, including casinos, insurance and hosting.