Joost De Valk Email & Phone Number

Wijchen, GE, NL

Parnu, Province / State, EE

Supporting Patchstack on their mission to make open-source software safer.

As a board member responsible for communication and digital strategy, I take care of both the internal and external comms for AWC, as well as setting up and improving our digital workflows.

Wijchen, Gelderland, NL

Emilia invests in companies that play on the world wide web. A lot of our investments have ties to the WordPress ecosystem.We’d like to think they all make the web a better place by being who they are. We like to be close to our portfolio companies. We’re not there to tell them what to do but instead to cheer them on and give them advice when they ask for.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

As an investor in and advisor to WordProof I help reach WordProof's goal of building a truly trusted web.The internet has a deep-rooted issue: trust. How do consumers know whether the information presented by sites can be trusted, and how can site owners claim ownership over their content? These issues can all be solved with the help of the WordProof.

Jacksonville, Florida, US

Responsible for WordPress strategy throughout Newfold. As one of the largest hosting companies and domain name registrars in the world, we've got plenty to do!

Wijchen, Gelderland, NL

I advise the leadership at Yoast, which I founded, on everything they need me for, from product to marketing and business.

Wijchen, Gelderland, NL

As Yoast had a few too many changes in its technical leadership I stepped back in for a few months to run the R&D departments while we searched for another CTO. Once we found one, I stepped back again.

Wijchen, Gelderland, NL

As Chief Product Officer for Yoast I was responsible for making sure Yoast’s products are best in class and keep on developing.

Wijchen, Gelderland, NL

Yoast focuses on SEO & Digital Marketing, building software, creating content, eBooks and courses to help people improve their sites and teach them why.I bootstrapped this startup from absolutely zero to a €12.5 million turnovercompany employing 140+ people across 5 continents. Our plugins for WordPress, TYPO3 and other platforms are active on over 12.

Quix was a very powerful bookmarklet that allowed you to access all your bookmarklets across all your browsers, while maintaining them in one spot.

US

Leading the marketing team and oversee improving WordPress.org, related websites, and all its outlets.

London, GB

Advising Student.com on all matters SEO, Social and general Growth.

I'm the host of a weekly podcast called the WordPress Podcast, which gives our listeners news, tips and information about WordPress and its plugins and themes.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Started the Search Marketing Thursday sequence of events.

Utrecht, NL

Helping companies use the internet to it's fullest extent, in communication, marketing and sales.

I'm a committer and Quality Assurer at the WebKit Open Source Project, a project started by Apple and joined by Nokia and Adobe among others. The project has it's website at http://www.webkit.org.While technically I still have commit rights, I'm no longer very active in the community so not listing the function here.

Offering CSS related news!

I was responsible for programming the sessions at SES Amsterdam.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

As search strategist, I'm responsible for developing search engine marketing strategies and tactics for our clients, promote these strategies and tactics towards them, and make sure these strategies get carried out.This means I'm busy with all the aspects of Search Marketing, ranging from paid search, to organic SEO, to Search Engine Reputation Management.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

At Onetomarket I'm responsible for my own set of clients. I run search engine optimization projects with these clients, making sure they rank better in the major search engines. While doing that I also provide usability and web browser interoperability advice.

I was an administrator at OpenDarwin, a large open source platform, maintaining their Bugzilla amongst other things, OpenDarwin is at the moment in the process of closing down.

Nieuwegein, Utrecht, NL

Responsible for marketing and selling the products and services of IC&S: open source software support, webhosting and consultancy. We specialize in managing complex webapplications and internet environments and high network traffic optimization, using open source solutions.

Nijmegen, GE, NL

At First8, I was responsible for client contact, project management and sales.

Diogenes was a large student assocation with about 600-800 members, we employed between 15 and 50 people at any time. I mostly dealt with the daily (financial) management.

Theology

International Business An Management

Theology

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