Steve Richter

Mr. Richter is currently the President of Media Breakaway, LLC. He has been connected to the online marketing industry for the past ten years in his capacity as the founding partner of a law firm which concentrated in internet law, and business and tax litigation. He has also published a number of articles and made numerous presentations pertaining to internet law and compliance with Federal and state statutes and regulations at different industry events (including the FTC Forum on Spam and Affiliate Summit). Mr. Richter served as a San Diego County Deputy District Attorney in a pro bono capacity and spent several years on the editorial staff of San Diego Lawyer Magazine.

He is a member of the California State Bar and is also licensed to practice law in the UK and Wales as a Solicitor. In addition, Mr. Richter holds a Colorado Certified Public Accountant license. He is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the Mobile Marketing Association where he serves on its Best Practices Committee. 

Lee Roberts

In 1984 Lee Roberts was programming and coding a search engine for the United States Navy. Lee founded the search engine friendly shopping cart Merchant Metrix  in 2000. He has had over 300 articles published in print and online, both highlighted and contributed in books and was a four-time judge for an international web site award program.

In 2000, Roberts began working with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) to assist in developing version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and HTML 5.0. In his free time, Mr. Roberts enjoys spending time with his wife, five dogs, two cats, two fish, and three grandchildren and when he can get a chance, his Kawasaki Vulcan 900.

Mark Roth

Mark got involved with Internet Marketing as a PPC Affiliate in June 2005, focusing mainly on CPA offers. His sideline affiliate business grew quickly and he was able to leave his full-time job in March of 2006. He continued building his affiliate marketing business and simultaneously developed Affiliate Radar and Offervault in 2007. These tools were born out of his own needs as an affiliate marketer and have proven useful to thousands of other marketers as well.

With the significant growth of Offervault, Mark now focuses on the management and growth of Offervault and the continued development of tools for Internet Marketers. He also manages a team of project managers, programmers, account executives and Web designers and actively assists others in the business as a coach and mentor.

In addition to PPC and CPA, Mark's expertise also includes split testing and landing page optimization, landing page design and SEO. He is a qualified Google Advertising Professional.

Oliver Roup

Oliver is the co-founder and CEO of VigLink. Previosly, he was a Director at Microsoft in charge of the XBOX Live Video Marketplace. Oliver was also an early employee at Internet Radio pioneer Echo Networks and has worked for Paul Allen at Vulcan, for iPlayer at the BBC and for the Founders Fund. Oliver has issued and pending patents covering micro-transactions, media and metadata. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from MIT and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Lori Ruff

Lori Ruff, The LinkedIn Diva, is a recognized authority in LinkedIn and social media training and consulting. Ruff joined the LinkedIn community in July 2005. She is now Chief Learning Officer at Integrated Alliances. Now in the Top Ten Best Connected Women on LinkedIn, her career in speaking and training international corporate and conference audiences began in July 1996. She is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor and a speaker and facilitator on topics such as customer service, leadership, visioning, personal development, and career transition.

Social media mavens, Mike O'Neil and Lori make a dynamic speaking team delivering high energy, informative and fun sessions that captivate people's attention and inspire them. The LinkedIn Rockstars have delivered over 500 social media workshops, webinars, and presentations to audiences internationally.

Mike and Lori have deep expertise and have been known as connectors of people and opportunities; they are authorities in using social networking to enhance those skills.

David Sargent

David Sargent wears three hats. First, he has been a Colorado attorney since 2004. As a civil litigator in the State court system, he as worked extensively in telemarketing litigation. Secondly, David works in legal marketing and business development. That is, he helps lawyers design, develop and implement marketing plans. In consumer oriented practices, the focus lies primarily on web based advertising. Lastly, he is an organizational development consultant for corporations seeking to improve efficient HR, marketing and operational processes. His unique value is the effective application of instructional design principles to organizational decision-making. He completed his undergraduate degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1997. Spanish. He graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2003 after receiving the CALI Award for Excellence: Intellectual Property. Subsequently, he received an MBA from the University of San Diego Graduate School of Business (Management, 2004). Mr. Sargent is a regular member of multiple affiliate and ecommerce groups in the Denver area.

Jeremy 'Shoemoney' Schoemaker

From selling washers and dryers at Sears to managing multimillion dollar payperclick campaigns, Shoemoney has been exposed to so many types of marketing. He uses this experience now to focus on his own company, Shoemoney Captial, and hopes to make it one of the most profitable internet based companies out there.

Amy Sheridan

Amy Sheridan founded Blue Phoenix Media in 2006. As part of its expansive affiliate system, Blue Phoenix Media operates over 40 web sites, largely in the education vertical, but also across insurance, travel, dish, and home service. Additionally, Blue Phoenix Media’s proprietary technology also connects advertisers to customers using demographic- and geolocation-based marketing. Blue Phoenix Media’s clients include Mercedes-Benz, EA Sports, Yahoo!, Groupon, Ballys, Kaplan, Nickelodeon, Sears, Ambien, and Lunesta.

Amy has worked in affiliate marketing since 2001, but has been involved with internet marketing since 1999. She started her career at Xactmail, one of the pioneering email marketing companies. From there, she went onto work at online music company MusicVision and Itraffic/Agency.com.

She received her BS in Electronic Media Studies from East Carolina University. Currently, Amy lives and works in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @webvixen or amy@bluephoenixmedia.com.

Marshall Simmonds

Simmonds is Chief Search Strategist for Define Search Strategies and the New York Times. A pioneer and leading expert in the search marketing industry, Simmonds was responsible for building About.com into the most successful search engine optimized content network on the Internet. In addition to his work with The Times, he co-founded DEFINE SEARCH STRATEGIES, DefineSS.com an enterprise search consulting business, funded by The New York Times Company. Most recently he created SearchCLU the network diagnostic and search engine optimization tool.

Wade Sisson

Wade is the Director of Marketing for PartnerCentric, Inc. He manages communication with clients, affiliates and prospects and develops marketing materials to promote the company and its services. Wade also oversees trade show planning and works to develop public relations partnerships with bloggers, editors and publishers.

Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith, CEO of Engine Ready, Inc. got an early entrepreneurial start during the beginning of the Internet boom building and selling websites. Mr. Smith has over 10 years of Internet Marketing experience, and is frequently asked to speak at industry conferences around the world. In 1998, Mr. Smith founded World Methods, an Internet marketing agency headquartered on the Island of Martha's Vineyard.

World Methods and Engine Ready merged in September of 2001 putting together a robust online services organization with a talented group of Internet software visionaries. Under Smith’s tenure, Engine Ready has transformed from a local Internet marketing services company into a leading strategic software development firm.

Mr. Smith studied Business Administration at the University of Vermont and has a Bachelor of Science in Management and Occupational Safety from Keene State College.

Jason Soto

Jason Soto is the Chief Monetization Officer (CMO) and Co-Founder of Social Liquid (www.socialliquid.com), one of the nation's top niche interactive marketing firms, specializing in monetization consulting, social media and mobile marketing for the Gaming, Hospitality and Entertainment industry. With more than a decade of performance marketing, media planning and CRM experience, Soto has become a well-known visionary, public speaker and technologist in the Internet marketing industry. Social Liquid is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV with long-time partner, Kevin De Vincenzi (CEO, XY7.com). Jason serves on several local & industry association boards, including Las Vegas Interactive Marketing Association (LVIMA) and the Nevada Economic Development Authority.

David Szetela

International sales, marketing and general management in the PC, software, internet, publishing and online gaming industries. Currently focused on Pay-per-click (PPC) and paid search advertising (Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter). Blogging at http://www.clixmarketing.com/blog. Writes weekly "Profitable PPC" column distributed by Search Engine Watch - subscribe at http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=sew_experts. Weekly radio show PPC Rockstars at http://www.webmasterradio.fm/Advertising/PPC-Rockstars/. Join the PPC Pro People group on Facebook or LinkedIn!