MivaCon 2013

Neil Patel

Co-founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics

Through his entrepreneurial career he has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was he named one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal, but he was also named one of the top entrepreneurs in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine. He has also been recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama. Neil has also received Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives for his work in the nonprofit sector.

Matt McGee

Editor-In-Chief, Search Engine Land and Marketing Land

Matt's been helping businesses of all sizes succeed online since the late 1990s, with a specialty in SEO, local search marketing, and blogging/social media. Matt has consulted for companies as big as Target.com and as small as a mom and pop selling handcrafted wooden pens from their garage. He's been surrounded by small businesses his whole life. Matt's dad has been a small business owner since the 1950s. His sister is a small business owner. And his wife, a real estate agent, is also a small business owner.

Eric Weaver

SVP Social Strategy, Mediabrands Worldwide

Eric Weaver is a veteran marketer who has helped build awareness, revenue and loyalty for household brands across the United States. Over his 22-year career as one of the very first digital marketers, Eric has helped firms like Clorox, De Beers, eBay, Ford, GE, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Lincoln, Mattel, the Mayo Clinic, Procter & Gamble, RCA, the US Postal Service, and the Clinton Administration build and extend their brands online. He got his start in what we now call social media as a community manager and content cultivator at America Online in 1991.

Hal Lublin

Senior Director of Brand Evangelism and Outreach, Swagbucks.com

Hal Lublin is a co-founder and CMO of the Social Media Marketing Institute and a co-author of the ePro designation. He currently serves as Senior Director of Brand Evangelism and Outreach for Swagbucks.com, where he works with the blogging community and creates engaging video content for internal and external use. He is part of the extremely popular Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jennifer.

Tim Ash

President And CEO, Site Tuners

Tim Ash is the President and CEO of Site Tuners and its parent company, Epic Sky. He is the author of Amazon.com ecommerce bestseller, "Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide To Testing And Tuning For Conversions."

Larry Osborne

Pastor, North Coast Church/Founder And President, North Coast Training Network

Dr. Larry Osborne is a pastor, leadership consultant, and author. He has worked with thousands of leaders in both the profit and non-profit sectors, helping them to build healthier and "stickier" organizations. Larry and the church he pastors, North Coast Church, have been nationally recognized and honored as one of the most innovative and Ten Most Influential Churches in America.

Rick Wilson

President-COO, Miva Merchant

Rick began with the original Miva Corporation (now Miva Merchant) in 1999 as Director of North American Sales. His responsibilities included channel sales and management, strategic partnership development and end user adoption. Rick took over as Vice President of Sales and Business Development in 2002. In 2007 he became Executive Vice President when the company was spun out of MIVA, Inc (formerly FindWhat) into a standalone entity. Today, Rick's duties include overseeing all parts of day to day operations with a specific focus on Sales, Marketing and Business Development. During his tenure at Miva Merchant, Rick has worked with thousands of web hosting companies to assist them in offering an ecommerce platform to their end users.

Rick's more than 17 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience also includes his tenure as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Providence Systems (now Buffini and Company), a privately held sales training company. At Providence Systems, Rick developed and executed the sales and marketing strategies that helped lead a successful corporate turnaround in the late 1990's.