Agenda

Menachem Ani is the founder of JXT Group, a US-based agency specializing in multi-channel online advertising. A digital and search marketing veteran, he brings to the table more than 20 years of experience creating high-impact growth strategies for eCommerce and service-based businesses.

His track record of delivering consistently above-average results stems from his forward-thinking mentality. A pro-automation paid media specialist, Menachem adapts the fundamentals of marketing to ever-evolving ad platforms. Today, he is one of the leading authorities on modern Google Ads tactics and campaigns, including Performance Max, Demand Gen and offline conversion tracking.

Outside of running his agency, Menachem is also a highly regarded author and speaker. He has shared insights on paid media and growing a digital agency at SMX, BrightonSEO, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Foxwell Founders, and several other publications.

Anu Adegbola has been Paid Media Editor of Search Engine Land since 2024. She covers paid search, paid social, retail media, video and more.

In 2008, Anu's career started with delivering digital marketing campaigns (mostly but not exclusively Paid Search) by building strategies, maximising ROI, automating repetitive processes and bringing efficiency from every part of marketing departments through inspiring leadership both on agency, client and marketing tech side.

Outside editing Search Engine Land article she is the founder of PPC networking event - PPC Live and the host of weekly podcast PPCChat Roundup

Recognise her? Well that's because she has spoken on several stages including, but not exclusive to - SMX (US), SMX (Munich), Friends of Search (Amsterdam), brightonSEO, The Marketing Meetup, HeroConf (PPC Hero), SearchLove, BiddableWorld, SESLondon, PPC Chat Live, AdWorld Experience (Bologna).

Glenn Gabe is an SEO consultant at G-Squared Interactive (GSQi) and has over 28 years of experience in digital marketing. Glenn currently helps clients with algorithm update recovery, technical SEO audits, and SEO training. During his career, Glenn has helped companies across a wide range of industries including publishing, ecommerce, health and medical, finance, startups, military, education, non-profits, real estate, affiliate marketing, and more.

Lily Ray is the Senior SEO Director & Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital (formerly Path Interactive), where she provides strategic leadership for the agency’s SEO client programs. Born into a family of software engineers, web developers and technical writers, Lily brings a strong technical background, performance-driven habits and forward-thinking creativity to all programs she oversees. Lily began her SEO career in 2010 in a fast-paced start-up environment and moved quickly into the agency world, where she helped grow and establish an award-winning SEO department that delivered high-impact work for a fast-growing list of notable clients, including Fortune 500 companies. Lily has worked across a variety of verticals with a focus on retail, e-commerce, b2b and CPG sites. She loves diving into algorithm updates, assessing quality issues and solving technical SEO mysteries.

Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. RustyBrick sells custom web software including advanced e-commerce, custom content management systems, social networking sites, CRM applications, custom web-based business software, iPhone applications and much more.

Barry Schwartz is the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and has covered search for over 20 years. Barry is also the News Editor at Search Engine Land. Barry hosts the Search Marketing Expo in Israel and is a speaker, moderator and coordinator at many search marketing conferences, including Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, La Red Innova Madrid, Spain, PubCon and many other marketing and technology events.

Barry is always at the forefront of the latest news and trends in search. He was also the former News Editor at Search Engine Watch and is a moderator at several search marketing forums. Barry has and currently provided an advisory role for Google, Yahoo! Search, Microsoft's Bing, and several other Internet companies and many startups. In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land and in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here. Please also see my writer disclosures and disclaimers page. Barry graduated from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 2002, with Summa Cum Laude honors. Schwartz received several honors while in university, including Beta Gamma Sigma and the Golden Key International Honor Society.

He, his wife and children live in the New York area. Barry is often quoted and interviewed in publications such as Forbes, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today BusinessWeek, News.com, Publish and many more. He has appeared on primetime TV, specifically NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams to talk about Google Instant and on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in regards to mobile apps. Barry has also made multiple appearances on the TWiT network shows This Week in Google and Tech News Today. He has over a decade of hands-on experience in web strategy, marketing and business optimization.

Jessica is not your typical SEO consultant— she redefines operational systems that make your SEO succeed. Even the best in-house teams end up in reactive mode, constantly fixing avoidable issues. That’s where Jessica Bowman comes in.

Her mission is clear: Make SEO an integrated part of everyday business operations with dozens to hundreds of people acting on SEO, so that your team spends less time fixing mistakes and more time driving new, incremental growth. The result? SEO strategies that are executed accurately and swiftly, positioning your company as the SEO pacesetter.

Jessica offers a new SEO perspective: Uncovers and optimizes the operational side of SEO. For senior SEO managers, she brings a tailored, process-driven approach not to reinvent their wheel but to make it spin more effectively across departments by streamlining workflows, boosting efficiency, and getting rid of the constant SEO fires.

In short, Jessica helps companies stop reacting to SEO fires by building a cross-functional, sustainable SEO machine that scales and spans across the organization. Through services like SEO Operations Audits, tailored cross-department training, and embedding SEO accountability into team processes, your teams will get the structure they need to do their 20% that makes 80% of the impact.

Jessica makes SEO everyone’s job—not just the SEO team’s. And, they do it proactively.

If you’re ready to elevate your SEO operations, minimize the risks that drag down results, and maximize your ROI from SEO efforts, let’s talk.

Danny Goodwin is the Editorial Director of Search Engine Land & SMX. In addition to writing daily about SEO, PPC, and more for Search Engine Land, Goodwin also manages Search Engine Land’s roster of subject-matter experts. He also helps program our conference series, SMX – Search Marketing Expo. Goodwin has been covering search industry news and trends since 2007. He has spoken at many major search conferences and virtual events, and has been sourced for his expertise by a wide range of publications and podcasts.

Brad Geddes has been involved in PPC since 1998. He is a co-founder of AdAlysis, a PPC recommendation engine. Brad is the author of Advanced Google AdWords, the most advanced book ever written about Google's advertising program. Brad has worked with many of the world's leading companies in managing and perfecting their PPC management and workflows.  One of his trademarks has been demystifying the complicated aspects of SEM. Not one to hold secrets, Brad prefers to educate marketers on the various aspects of crafting successful marketing campaigns to ensure the success for all parties involved. 

Leslie is SVP, Marketing Solutions at Third Door Media.

Third Door Media empowers digital marketing professionals by providing trusted content and educational services. The company publishes MarTech and Search Engine Land, which are leading trade publications for marketers. It also is the producer of the MarTech Conference and Search Marketing Expo – SMX conference series. The company is also a leading provider of marketing solutions to purveyors of software and services to the marketing community. Those services include lead generation, content creation and content amplification.

Kerri Amodio is a Director of Demand Generation at Refine Labs, managing a team of talented digital marketers. She became well-versed in executing advanced digital advertising strategies across search, social and display while working in-house for several B2B tech companies. Kerri has been on the agency side for six years, aligning marketing strategy to the modern buyer's media habits. She has a keen eye for landing page optimization, a passion for data visualization and analytics, and a knack for uncovering new avenues of growth for clients.

Greg Finn is a performance-based marketer who manages global paid spend as a Google Partner. In the past, he has contributed more than 700 articles to Third Door Media. He is also on Search Engine Journal's weekly News Podcast: Marketing O'Clock.