When it comes to email, there’s nothing Paul’s more passionate about than delivering accessible email experiences to recipients, and helping his fellow email marketers, copywriters, creatives, and coders do the same.

2025 marks ten years since he delivered his first talk on email accessibility to the email community, ‘A Type of Accessibility’, at the Email Design Conference in London, and the year of the enforcement of the European Accessibility Act. In that talk, he encouraged the email community, inspiring them and enabling them to create accessible emails using innovative techniques to ensure their emails would conform to WCAG, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Since then, he’s gone on to conduct email accessibility audits, lead, create and implement WCAG conformant accessible email design systems, and inspired many others, through talks, articles and interviews, to ensure their emails are equally accessible.

LoriBeth "LB" Blair is an email geek with years of experience working for two ESPs and her own private deliverability consulting practice. While working for IBM's Watson Campaign Automation, she worked with some of the world's largest brands and one of the 2016 presidential campaigns. She then worked for ClickDimensions, making the jump to deliverability, and helped manage operations for a platform with more than 3,400 customers sending more than 200 million emails a month, before transitioning into her own business.

Active in email marketing since 1996, Red Pill Email founder, John Caldwell, has worked on the agency side, the client side, and as a consultant, using deployment tools from ESPs to in-house to homegrown email systems.

A Member of the Email Experience Council since 2006, John has served on the Member Advisory Committee, as Chair of the Marketing & Membership, Co-Chair of the Email Measurement Accuracy Roundtable/Advisory Board, member of the former Speakers Bureau and of the former Career Paths Roundtable.  John was on the advisory panel at the founding of Only Influencers and remains a charter member. 

Michelle Casey is a Digital Marketing strategist tuned to predicting trends and defining effective business strategies for customer experience solutions. A seasoned client advocate, she delivers a value focus on ROI, revenue generation and cost reduction.

Michelle leads the Strategy practice at Alchemy Worx. Alchemy Worx is a global Audience Management agency that collaborates with marketers on delivering digital marketing solutions at scale. Alchemy Worx is the leader in ROI-driven channel marketing for Retail, Financial Services, Entertainment industries and has an extensive B2C, DTC and B2B portfolio of long-standing clients.

Seth has been in the email industry for over a decade now, and loves (almost) nothing more than talking the evolution of deliverability and marketing strategy. He comes to Iterable as the Principal Email Deliverability and Industry Relations Manager by way of consulting services for a major ESP, a SaaS email intelligence company, and managing an email marketing team in ECommerce himself.

Scott Cohen is a proven email marketing veteran with 15 years of experience as both a brand-side marketer and an email marketing agency executive. As CRM and Email Marketing Manager at 1-800 Contacts, Scott brings both award-winning copywriting chops and industry-renowned expertise in email marketing strategy and execution. When not working, Scott is a devoted father and husband, classic rock and '80s power ballad junkie, and sports fanatic.

Kait Creamer advocates for innovative and inclusive email marketing both in and outside her work as Framer's CRM Marketing Manager. Vice chair of the EEC's Events and Education committee, featured on Phrasee's "Who to Follow" series, and 2019 Stefan Pollard Email Marketer of the Year award winner, she's an expert and enthusiast in email, data, and marketing automation, continually pushing for next best campaign. Prior to joining the Framer team in Amsterdam, Kait managed the email and digital marketing strategies at Boulder innovators Scaled Agile and MakeMusic. She believes thoughtful design, clear communication, and human-first development can (and should) change the world for good.

Will Crocker leads the Customer Experience team at Braze, responsible for improved customer outcomes and experiences. A six-year veteran at Braze, Will previously led Customer Success where he partnered with renowned brands including Citi, Delivery Hero, Dominos, Grubhub, and SoundCloud to continually raise the bar on personalized messaging. Prior to joining Braze Will served in Teach for America. You can also find Will hitting the slopes or rooting for just about any team from Boston.

Evan has been neck deep in email design for the last decade or so as the head email nerd at Lucky Red Pixel, a highly-rated email design agency based in central Florida. He is also Lead Designer at Red Pill Email, and works regularly with agencies and companies large & small to improve their production & look. He loves to talk about email strategy & design and regularly gives talks on how awesome email marketing is, and how you can do it better.

Nick is Vice President of Product Marketing at Netcore Cloud where he develops, owns, and executes go-to-market strategies. He evaluates new growth opportunities for the Netcore roadmap, presents thought leadership at industry events, and leads cross-functional teams for product launches and market announcements. Before joining Netcore, he was a product marketing leader at Cheetah Digital, and served for five years as Chief Research Officer and Principal Analyst at The Relevancy Group. Nick earned his BA from Kenyon College, MBA from The University of Washington, and lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.

Stephanie is currently the Email Marketing Manager at Vinyl Me, Please and an active member of the Email Geeks and Women of Email communities. She has held previous roles in email marketing on both the agency side and client side, largely focused on corporate retail and e-commerce. Stephanie has prior in-house experience working with major brands including Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath & Body Works, and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Stephanie currently lives in Denver, Colorado with her boyfriend Christopher and their two cats Merry and Pippin.

Maddie Groves is an Associate Marketing Director at Ibotta, a rewarded shopping app based in Denver, CO. As the leader of the Communications team, she oversees all user touchpoints across Ibotta's email, push, and in-app messaging channels. Always down for an A/B test, Maddie loves to creatively combine data and technology to build hyper-personalized, engaging marketing campaigns. 

Jeanne Jennings is a recognized expert in the email marketing world and a sought-after speaker and author on industry topics. Jeanne has over 20 years of experience in the email and online marketing and product development world.

She is also the Founder of Email Optimization Shop, a consultancy with a direct response approach to digital marketing strategy, tactics and creative direction. They help their clients make their email marketing initiatives more effective and more profitable.

In addition, Jeanne is Chair of the Email Innovations Summit, Las Vegas and General Manager of Only Influencers, a community of email marketing professionals. And she is an adjunct professor teaching digital marketing to students earning their Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications at Georgetown University.

From 2001 to 2016 she wrote a regular column on Email Marketing for ClickZ.com. She is also a regular contributor to her own Email Optimization Shop Blog and the Only Influencers Blog.

Andrew Kordek has spent 20 years in email marketing, both on the client and agency side. He has worked on and with some of the largest and most complex email programs in the world to help maximize ROI.  A data-driven and innovative marketer, Andrew advocates for the subscriber and provides valuable insight for long-term success in email marketing. He currently acts as the Chief Strategist at Trendline Interactive, a full-service email marketing agency with over 100 employees and many clients across the globe. He currently lives in Chicago with his lovely wife, his teenage son and his dog Lumpy.  He is the only employee at Trendline with a license plate that says EMAIL. 

Jen Larson is an experienced email marketer, data interpreter, and team leader. As the Director of Digital Marketing at her company, she quickly established herself as the company expert in several areas, including email deliverability and cross-functional collaboration. Combining her natural ability to learn complex tasks with an extraordinary sense of strategy and timing, Jen has created a new standard at the company for email and cross-platform communication, as well as engagement strategies for their healthcare provider audience. In addition to her primary job functions, Jen has been recognized by her peers for her extraordinary commitment to cultivating a positive and productive company culture.

Jen is proud alum of West Chester University. 

Geoff Linton is the CEO & Founder of Inbox Marketer and a data-driven marketing expert with more than 25 years of applied experience in both client and agency roles. He has worked in many industry sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, technology, manufacturing, and professional service businesses. For the past 13 years at Inbox Marketer, Geoff has guided clients in digital messaging strategy and analytics. Geoff was previously an Associate Director for Air Miles (LoyaltyOne) and he was a Marketing Professor at Conestoga College of Applied Arts & Technology. Geoff is also actively involved in the marketing industry as a speaker, author and association member. Over the last decade Geoff has been actively involved in numerous industry associations and he loves a challenge. Geoff holds both a P.Eng and MBA from Queen’s University in Canada.

Genevieve Longtin is a passionate, successful, decades-long veteran of the digital communications and email industry, with over 15 years specializing in digital health. Winner of the 2017 Stephen Pollard Email Marketer of the Year award, Genevieve manages acquisition and lifecycle programs at Quartet Health.
She has spent her career leading cross-functional engagement teams as they innovate and refine programs that currently provide double digit ROIs, industry-leading 89% inboxing rates, and contribute more than 50% of return user engagement from the more than a 1.5 billion emails sent each year. 
Genevieve graduated summa cum laude from Regis College with a degree in Political Science and History, and minors in International Relations, Biochemistry, and Sociology. Her passion for service inspires her free time, and Genevieve spent more than ten years as a volunteer victim advocate with her local battered women and rape crisis center. Married for over 25 years, Genevieve lives in gorgeous New England with her husband and a disaffected, spoiled house cat.

Laura Madden is a Senior Email Marketing Strategist at DEG, an Isobar Company, a full-service digital marketing agency based in Overland Park, KS. Laura began her digital career on the client site, working with e-commerce business at Staples Promotional Products and Helzberg Diamonds. She now applies her over ten years of digital marketing experience guiding clients like PepsiCo and LVMH in their CRM and relationship marketing efforts. In her free time, Laura enjoys being a Wish Granter for Make-A-Wish, watching pretty much anything on Bravo, and spending time with her family.

Chris Marriott is the President & Founder of Email Connect, a consultancy that for the last 10 years has focused exclusively on guiding brands through the ESP and CDP vendor selection process. A 25-year veteran of digital marketing, including well over a decade in email marketing, Chris is a recognized expert in the martech vendor landscape and vendor evaluation process.

Prior to founding Email Connect, Chris served as a tenured executive at Acxiom, building and leading its Global Digital and Email Agency Services team into one of the industry’s top agency services providers.

Additionally, he is a regular speaker and columnist on the changing martech landscape and the RFP process, and is an adviser to several emerging marketing technology companies including AudiencePoint and Shotzr. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College.

Bill McCloskey has been affectionately called The Godfather of Email and since 2003 has been instrumental in driving awareness of the email marketing industry. In 2003 he founded and launched eDataSource, Inc, the first email intelligence company. He began the Email Insider column (the first of the Mediapost “insider” series) and went on to develop and host the Email Insider Summit. He has twice been a finalist for the EEC’s Stefan Pollard Memorial Marketer of the Year award and has been named one of the 50 Marketing Leaders Over 50 You Should Know by CMO Magazine.

in 2010, Bill left eDataSource to launch Only Influencers, the leading and most influential community for email marketing professionals in the world. OI brings together the world's top thought leaders and movers and shakers and hosts discussion lists, meetups, and blogs by leading email experts. In addition, Only Influencers is a vast resource for new people just entering the email marketing industry and is dedicated to the growth of the individual email marketer, the promotion of the companies that drive the industry, and the growth of the email marketing industry as a whole.

 As Program Director, Marketing Research at Acoustic, Loren McDonald’s role is to produce thought leadership content and educate marketers on digital marketing best practices and emerging trends through articles, white papers, benchmark reports, guides, presentations, and webinars.
 
He has written more than 500 articles and delivered more than 350 presentations in 14 countries and 150 webinars. McDonald has 35 years of experience as a consultant, marketing executive and thought leader at companies including IBM, Silverpop, Arthur Andersen, USWeb/CKS, EmailLabs, and Lyris.

Dan McGaw is a serial entrepreneur who has a passion for making everything around him better. As the Founder and CEO of Effin Amazing, an Analytics and CRO consultancy, he oversees marketing, analytics and growth hacking for the company's clients. He previously founded Fuelzee, Starter Studio and Bootstrap Academy, to name a few. He was instrumental in the immense growth of Code School (which was recently acquired) as well as KISSmetrics. In his spare time, he likes to hang out with his wife and three sons, coming up with new businesses and doing laundry.

Leah Miranda is the Senior Email Marketing Manager for Nashville-based marketing technology company CM Group. Passionate about using technology to meet people where they are, she has garnered over a decade of email marketing experience that includes start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and now brands Campaign Monitor, Delivra, and Emma. When she’s not coding emails, you can find Leah in Nashville, TN, drinking coffee and reading a book with her wife and dog.

From winning national awards for innovative management of higher education budgets to overseeing multiple ESP transitions, strategic customer journey implementations, and the detailed planning of CRM database builds, Jennifer’s career has been an exciting whirlwind of experiences in the marketing realm! After working for the University of Michigan and at the La-Z-Boy world headquarters, she now is the CRM Manager for Pet Supplies Plus. All it took was a few unique twists of fate, saying “multichannel customer journey,” “behavioral segmentation,” and clicking her heels together 3 times before learning that there’s no place like home, especially while working for a company that truly puts people – and their furry friends – first.

Kath lives and breathes email marketing and is one of the World's Top 50 Email Marketing Influencers (Vocus, 2014). As Founder of Holistic Email Marketing, she devotes her time to developing customer-centric ecommerce journeys using a holistic, multi-channel approach. Kath is recognised as one of the UK's leading Email Marketers and heads up training for Econsultancy on Personalisation and Email Marketing. Some of the retail and B2C brands she has either trained or helped are: Bally, Barbour, Paul Smith, Ocado, EE, Dyson, Marks and Spencer, Wallis, Schuh, Co-operative Group, Argos, Next, Asda, Jaeger, Mont Blanc, Expedia, Net-a-Porter, Secret Escapes, George, Dixons, Bookatable, ShopRush, Adobe, Facebook, VisitScotland – just to name a few.

For two decades, Ryan has created and led innovative marketing strategies for high-growth SaaS and Fortune 250 companies, including Canadian Tire, Capital One, Hewlett-Packard (Global), Skype, CenturyLink, Sprint, FedEx, First National Bank of Omaha, and U.S. Bank.

His experience and history in digital marketing has shaped his approach on creating innovative orchestrations of data, technology and customer activation for Adestra, Acxiom, Responsys, Sears & Kmart, BlueHornet and infoUSA.

A resident of Dallas, Texas, Ryan's background, experience and unique perspective have made him a popular keynote speaker and thought leader on digital and email marketing issues. He has been named one of the top 30 digital strategists in the United States and has built a library of thought leadership through blogs, white papers and presentations.

Tim Rhodes is the head of product marketing at Cordial. Tim has worked within the marketing technology industry for the past 10 years. In 2010, Tim was the head of product marketing at Eloqua, one of the first major marketing automation technology vendors. Eloqua became a publicly traded company in 2012 and was acquired by Oracle in 2013. Together, with $4 billion of subsequent acquisitions of Eloqua, Responsys, Bluekai, Datalogix, Compendium, and Maxymiser, Oracle created the “Oracle Marketing Cloud” (OMC). Tim became the senior director of Go-to-Market Strategy from 2013 through 2016for OMC where he and his team created strategies for OMC’s entry into B2B and B2C vertical markets. Tim was also responsible for creating OMC’s “modern marketing” thought leadership program, which is still operational today. As an OMC thought leader himself,  Tim actively consulted and advised CMOs from major brands, such as Mary Kay, Clorox, Experian, Thomson Reuters, Home Adviser, and Cardinal Health on the development & execution of modern marketing strategies.

In July of 2016, Tim became the head of product marketing at Percolate, a marketing resource management technology platform. In October of 2018, Tim joined Cordial to head product marketing, which includes customer marketing and new product release management. In this position, Tim regularly advises prospective and active clients on “best practice” strategies for B2C marketing.

Tim has also been an active thought leader and speaker within the marketing technology industry, having presented and spoken at over 50 different industry events. Events include: Digital Marketing Association annual conference, the Modern Marketing Experience, The CMO Summit, Sirius Decisions, Gartner Digital Marketing Summit, and The Argyle CMO Forums. From 2004 to 2008, Tim could be seen every Thursday on television, providing live commentary on U.S. technology stocks and businesses on CNBC Europe’s ‘Today’s
Business Europe”.

Elliot Ross is passionate about pushing email design to provide the best experience possible for audiences. He founded ActionRocket, the creative studio for email, and co-founded Taxi for Email, a platform that helps marketers make great email campaigns. 

He specialises in creative strategy, design and development that works in the inbox. Over 12 years he's designed award winning campaigns for brands including London 2012, BBC, IKEA, British Airways and Sky. 
He speaks on email design at conferences for Litmus, eBay and IBM, authors the Make Awesome Email blog and co-hosts Email–The Podcast. His sense of Britishness precludes him from calling himself a "thought leader", but other people have.

Craig is an industry expert on data-driven digital marketing, and has spent two decades in both agency and client-side roles where he consulted and led enterprise brands to better leverage customer data and make the organizational changes necessary to achieve true 1:1 marketing. During his tenure with Accenture, Razorfish and several adtech start-ups and e-commerce brands, he developed teams that transformed clients into data-driven marketers.

Aaron is an accomplished marketing technology leader with a proven track record implementing innovative client solutions. He has been the co-founder of several successful digital marketing agencies and served as a senior executive in the services division of Oracle Responsys. Aaron has worked directly with marketing teams at some of the world’s largest brands including: Amazon, Williams-Sonoma, Orbitz, REI, Verizon, Alaska Airlines, Microsoft, Spirit Airlines, Costco, Safeway, General Mills, Virgin America, lululemon, and PetSmart.

Jared has helped some of the leading retail brands connect with customers in a meaningful way for over 10 years.  As Director of Customer Retention at ModCloth he orchestrates email, push and direct mail along with a variety of other touchpoints to create and maintain loyal, repeat customers.  He is endlessly curious to solve the right message, right audience, right timing equation with a focus on adding incremental value in addition to creating moments of delight.  Outside of work Jared is a life-long surfer making regular trips to Indonesia along with enjoying all but the very biggest days at his home break in San Francisco.

A seasoned Digital Marketer with 20+ years of experience executing marketing strategies in the financial services, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and media industries. My career started on the web side -designing and developing websites – eventually moving into digital campaign management including engagements in SEM and Google PPC. I designed my first email template for a Pharma product launch in China in 2005 but it wasn’t until 2009 before I really started to immerse myself in email marketing – landing my first email marketing role in 2010. Over the last 10 years I have expanded and led teams of Email campaign managers and developers – building out new teams and capabilities along the way. After taking Product ownership of the Chase Marketing Platform – an in-house Email and Ad platform – I had an opportunity to lead a new team in a new industry with Roku – I made the move.

John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid, a pre-deployment Email QA platform that strives to remove the inherent fear of hitting the "Send Button". He’s a passionate and engaging industry leader who lives, breathes, and dreams in email (seriously). John also serves as the CEO of Cause for Awareness, a recently formed non-profit that empowers other non-profit organizations with digital marketing resources. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

Anne Tomlin is a freelance email developer and the founder of Emails Y'all. Specializing in email development for almost a decade, she has worked with agencies like Trendline Interactive and Rebel, and such brands as Famous Footwear, HomeAway, and Fracture. Anne is dedicated to coding accessible, responsive emails that render gorgeously in every major client. She runs Emails Y'all based on the principle that everyone deserves an excellent rendering regardless of their chosen client.

Matthew Vernhout (@emailkarma) is Netcore’s Vice President Deliverability (Americas region). Apart from being a digital marketing and privacy advocate, he is also the chairperson of the ANA’s Email Experience Council. He also holds the role of a Director-at-Large with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE.org). Additionally, Matthew is the Communications Chair with the AuthIndicators Working Group (BIMIGroup.org), founder of the Canadian Email Summit (emailsummit.ca), and co-founder of GradeMyEmail.co.

Apart from these many roles, Matthew is a trusted industry expert, recognized as the 2019 EEC thought-leader of the year and is a Certified International Privacy Professional (Canada) (CIPP/C).

Matthew speaks frequently at email marketing and technology conferences around the globe, and maintains his celebrated blog, EmailKarma.net.

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Wacarra is an expert in creative strategy and user experience in the digital direct marketing channels. She has supported top brands including REI, Verizon Wireless, Rosetta Stone, Amazon, Lego, Make-A-Wish, Disney, The North Face, LinkedIn, and J. Crew, as they navigate today’s dynamic communication landscape. Wacarra’s work consistently boosts marketing program performance through cutting-edge multi-channel strategy and innovative design with an emphasis on strengthening brand-consumer relationships.