Gary Beal - MD of Vanguard Online Media

Gary Beal, a.k.a GaryTheScubaGuy has been doing SEO since he was a Super Affiliate in the Gaming Industry in the US. 6 Years ago he moved to the UK and was the first recognised Gaming SEO in Europe. Since then he has spoken at over 50 conferences,published dozens of articles in all of the Affiliate Magazines and is best known for his “Top 12 SEO Tips for 20__”. He has worked with most of the big players, but he gives his hands-on tactics away for free to Affiliates on forums like GPWA and SEOChat, and conferences like this one!

Session Notes
Top 12 SEO Tips for 2013 (for Affiliates!)
Gary's Top 12 SEO Tips are infamous in the Gaming, Affiliate and Forex industry. When many speakers tell you what they did they, many times they don't tell you how they did it. Gary' been doing that for 16 years. He started out as a Super Affiliate in the impossible Gaming industries and has worked with most of the Top 10 in one form or another, I guess that's why he lives in Malta!

This year Gary has promised to not disappoint and will be covering the following topics in his Top 12 SEO Tips for 2013 (RACE gets it early!):
• Tips, Tricks and Killer Tools to Maximise your SEO efforts x 10
• Getting great SEO ripe content for next to nothing and dominating search results for any country – Especially if you rank well in yours!
• Penguin 3.0 and how it affects you, or will be affecting you
• The Google Disavow Tool – Hear from a Pro in one of the hardest industries online about its uses and misuses
• The Hidden Gems for Affiliates
• How to buy, host and get a white label cash earner website up and going in minutes – with Gary's SEO plugins – and all under €100  

They will be talking about this one!

Marcus Tober

Marcus Tober brings pioneering experience in SEO to Searchmetrics. As chief technology officer, Marcus is responsible for advanced technology research, product development and SEO consulting programs. While studying media design and computer science in Berlin, Marcus was already focused on search engine optimization, and he quickly became one of the leading SEO experts in Germany. Marcus wrote his graduate thesis on the origin of linkvendor.com, the well-known platform for free SEO tools. He began his professional career in SEO at Idealo. Seeing the need for an integrated and professional SEO software solution led Marcus to found Searchmetrics GmbH jointly with Holtzbrinck eLab in 2007. Today Searchmetrics is a worldwide leader in Search Analytics solutions with nearly 100 employees and offices in Berlin, New York, London and Paris. Core businesses are analysis of SEO and Social Data in more than 34 countries. Companies like Siemens, T-Mobile, Symantec, Lufthansa trust Searchmetrics. In addition to his work in the SEO field, Marcus has built a number of successful commercial web ventures.

Matthias Bachor leads global marketing initiatives for search and social analytics software leader at Searchmetrics. He brings over 14 years of experience in online marketing, previously working with various Internet companies helping to build high-performance websites, managing online shops and optimizing multiple campaigns.

Mike has been in Search Engine Optimisation for several years and marketing longer still, in his youth having won awards for the use of new media in marketing. He has specialized in iGaming since day one and has a background in the land based gambling industry. Having worked with the biggest brands in the gambling sector he has a solid understanding of what goes into making an online marketing campaign a success in the toughest of sectors and how that can be applied to all areas across the web. A regular speaker on the conference circuit Mike is a forward thinking and well-rounded online marketer with an extensive knowledge of his specialist subject SEO.

Lisa Moskotova is a Chief operations officer and a co-founder of Dating Factory private label and affiliate platform that within just three years has become the leader in providing private label dating solutions in Europe. Lisa’s responsibilities in the company include managing the software development and support teams in Ukraine, supervising partner relations and driving the platform’s technology forward.
Lisa has been working in online dating industry since 2003, and her experience in building successful dating platforms is immense. She is dealing with private label partners and affiliates since 2005 and Dating Factory is known have the best multilingual support team on the dating market.
Being the bridge between Dating Factory’s partners and the development team Lisa creates an atmosphere of trust and efficiency within and outside the company, when any problem or issue gets resolved instantly and any idea is listened to and respected.
Together with other members of the management team Lisa follows the company’s philosophy of innovation and openness by working on improving the Dating Factory’s partner backend and affiliate programme. The company is now known to be the only multilingual private label platform on the market and to be the first ever private label platform allowing site owners to run their own affiliate networks. Dating Factory has also recently released the ad server and is the only system that brings partners additional advertising revenues. 
Lisa holds Master’s Degree in International relations and Foreign policy plus a Certificate of Management and Business administration.

PR Director at DengiOnline
Head of Sales at Go2See
Vyacheslav Fedorov is an expert in the field of electronic payment systems. Impressive experience in this field was obtained while serving as the Head of Regional Development at Yandex.Money payment system, the Head of Sales as he developed the network of payment terminals in the North-West of Russia, as well as in the creation of infrastructure for Yota payment service provider in Russia, Nicaragua and Belarus as the Head of Payment Systems Development. At the moment, Vyacheslav is heading PR department at the rapidly developing DengiOnline (www.dengionline.com) payment systems aggregator. In addition, Vyacheslav is the Chief Editor at e-MoneyNews (www.e-moneynews.ru) information and consulting publication.

President of Franchise Association of Ukraine  

Andrei has been heading Franchise Association of Ukraine since December 2001. During his tenure, the association advanced to the European level. He specializes in organizing and conducting training in the basics of franchising, building and monitoring networks, including franchising networks as well as networking, negotiating and organizing public events. Andrei is also the coordinator of franchising infrastructure development projects at Teamvision Ukraine, Directory of Franchises, Seminar Center, Franchise Control, Franchising Expo and Publishing Center, the Chairman at the East European Franchise Association, the Partner at the Black Sea Franchising Federation.He has held a number of public positions at government advisory and consultative bodies.

Founder of the Group of Companies: Externet, B2B basis, Galloper CRM

Since 2001, Andrei founded and launched to the market 4 startups and received 2 patents. Organizer of several annual conferences as well as a series of webinars in B2B where around 10,000 people are trained annually.

His professional expertise is in corporate sales, CRM concept and implementation (in small and medium business, B2B), Internet marketing and webinars.

Finam Investment Holding

Alexei has 11 years of experience in marketing and advertising at the leading advertising agencies in Russia. Since 2007, he has been working as the marketing and advertising specialist at Finam Investment Holding.

His professional expertise is in promotion of Forex services and affiliate program management.

Degree in economics, Certified Manager of the RF Presidential Program of management training and business management. Since 1999 worked in sales for a well-known European company, world leader in food production. Since 2004 worked in top management of the famous American retail network producing sports goods. Since 2007 - a top-manager of Russia's largest cosmetic company on the market of direct sales. Participated in the elaboration and implementation of the company marketing plan.  Wide experience in regional business development. The last few years is actively interested in the Forex market. From 2011 - CEO of the forex broker company «FreshForex», inspirer of the unique partner program.

He graduated from the National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) in the year of 2008 with a degree in applied mathematics and computer science. Then he continued his post-graduate studies in this University. His majors were system analysis, information management and processing. In the field of SEO Alexander works from the March of 2009. The professional interests are everything related to the SEO. In i-Media agency he is responsible for search engine optimization of clients’ sites and he is engaged in the series of seminars about SEO. He works with VIP-clients and constantly carries out the analytical work. In the National Research Nuclear University Alexander works as the assistant of the department named by “Mathematical software systems” and does lecturing for his students. 

Currently he is the CEO in a rapidly developing IT/Internet venture investment company Snegoffon.  In his opinion, investment is a focused project and ROI management.

Until now he was engaged in media start-ups, managing and implementation of Internet projects, advertising, media.  Extensive experience has nurtured a brilliant leadership in him, he's pursuing creative approach and engages his skills to develop and promote a project in a non-stable Internet environment. 

He is a frequent speaker at the most established conferences such as  «RIF + KIB», «RIW: Russian Internet Week»,  "St. Petersburg International Forum".