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Dianna Huff, President of Huff Industrial Marketing, works exclusively with U.S.-based industrial manufacturers, job shops, and OEMs, typically with 30–50 employees, that lack a marketing department. Dianna founded the company in 2014 after a hugely successful 15-year run as an SEO and B2B marketing writer. Dianna is a strategic marketer and prides herself on her attention to detail.

With both agency and in-house experience, Tim Jensen has managed paid media for B2B and B2C accounts of all sizes since 2010. While comfortable managing ads across all major platforms, he’s particularly intrigued with the crossover between analytics and PPC. Tim currently works as a Marketing Lead for M&T Bank.

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From Click To Closed Deal: The Missing Layer In Most Google Ads Accounts | Aashna Makin | PPC Zone June 2026

Aashna Makin makes it nearly impossible for businesses to lose money on ads. She specializes in Google and Facebook Ads for North American local service businesses, building paid media systems focused on profitable growth instead of vanity metrics. Acros...

Control vs Automation in RSAs: Finding the Right Balance for Performance | Joe Williams | PPC Zone June 2026

Joe Williams is a Senior PPC Manager with 8+ years of experience driving profitable growth across e-commerce and B2B clients. He specialises in scaling accounts through a profit-first approach, combining hands-on execution with strategic oversight across...

Real-Time Competitor Ads and Landing Page Reconnaissance as a B2B CRO Signal | Kuda Chinhara | PPC Zone June 2026

Kudakwashe Chinhara is the founder of Agentic PPC Ads, a Google Ads consultancy serving lead-generation clients in the US, Canada and the UK. A former options trader and data scientist, Kuda brings a quantitative approach to paid search, building AI...

Nikki Kuhlman has been deep in paid search since almost the start of the industry, starting in-house in 2002. She’s been at JumpFly since 2005 and is the VP of Search, managing a team of 24. She also manages B2B and B2C clients across all industries. Ecommerce clients are a specialty; she started the Feed Management division at JumpFly in 2016 because she saw the need for companies to improve their data. She’s a big pro...

Brian Lasonde has been in the digital marketing industry for 15+ years and led paid and organic campaigns for brands such as Crest, Oral-B, Pfizer, Stetson, Tom Ford, Diesel, and Nautica. In the last 4 years he has started PPC Boost, a boutique paid media agency specializing in taking 6 and 7 figure e-commerce brands to 8 figures.

You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blasonde/

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Sarah Sal is a Facebook & LinkedIn Ads Specialist with clients such as Hootsuite & AdEspresso. With 7 figures in Facebook ads spent under her belt in 10+ years, she's run ads for companies like ClickFunnels and Strategyzer. When she started running ads for the latter, they struggled to make $0.40 for each $1 spent on ads, and she moved them to $18 for each $1 spent.

You can find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

JXT Group's Menachem Ani and Inside Google Ads' Jyll Saskin Gales catch up in this live, unedited conversation. They discuss their experiences and insights in Google Ads, sharing tips and strategies for success. Topics include Performance Max, lead generation tactics, YouTube campaigns, the impact of AI on media buying, client management, PPC content creation, and more.

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Danny Gavin is a digital marketing strategist, educator, and agency leader focused on one core belief: Paid Media + CRM = PerfCRMance. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of Optidge, where he helps organizations unify paid media, SEO, and HubSpot-powered CRM systems into a single, revenue-focused growth engine.

Danny has spoken at universities, nonprofit conferences, and industry events on paid media strategy, SEO, HubSpot and CRM arc...

Waqas is the founder of scalix.ai

You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khokharwaqas/

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Breanne Bartlett is a paid media manager who helps teams understand what their data is actually telling them and what it isn’t. She works at the intersection of Google Ads, conversion tracking, and CRMs, helping marketers optimize for real business outcomes instead of vanity wins.

You can find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breannebartlett

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Melissa Mackey is Head of Paid Search for Compound Growth Marketing. A veteran PPC marketer, she helps clients achieve maximum ROI from paid search. Mackey contributes regularly to several industry publications, including Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, MediaPost, and AdWeek, writing on PPC strategy. Mackey has spoken at industry conferences such as SMX Advanced, SMX Next and HeroConf.

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After spending over 15 years helping B2B companies solve their marketing problems, Aldwin Neekon has built processes to get you results despite the obstacles that every ad platform puts in the way of B2B companies like yours. His background is in software engineering of all things, and when he has a spare minute he likes to get synthesizers to make that brrrrreeeeeoooowww sound. But mostly he does marketing.

You can find him on Lin...

Matt Beswick is a paid marketing manager at Quality Bearings Online, specialising in B2B ecommerce. He recently spoke at brightonSEO and Performance MCR. Matt has spent 16 years in PPC, spending time in-house, agency side and freelance, so he has seen PPC from almost every perspective.

You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-beswick/

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The Indie PPC Podcasts' Joey Bidner and Inside Google Ads' Jyll Saskin Gales "meet" for the first time in this live, unedited conversation. They discuss their experiences and insights in Google Ads, sharing tips and strategies for success. Topics include audience targeting, smart bidding, email marketing, third-party tools, and the significance of clear communication and expectation management with clients.

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Robyn has been heralded as one of the country's foremost leaders on the topic of selling and marketing products on Amazon.com. Robyn has been a guest on shows like Entrepreneur on Fire, Confessions of A Marketer, and speaks at shows all over the world about marketing on Amazon including SMX Munich, Pubcon, Prosper, and more. Robyn is the co-founder of Marketplace Blueprint, a digital agency that specializes in listing optimization ...

Melanie Katz is a digital marketer with 10 years of experience in paid media, campaign optimization, and data-driven strategy. Some of her favorite projects include simplifying complex workflows, designing marketing tests, and uncovering insights that drive growth. In ad agency roles, she worked with clients including UNIQLO Canada & Conair. Currently, she is building the in-house retail marketing program at Lucky Jack Gear in ...

Reva Minkoff is the Founder and President of Digital4Startups Inc., a full-service marketing agency that specializes in PPC advertising, Google ads, paid social media, search engine optimization, email marketing, and analytics. A graduate of Harvard University and an EMBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, Reva currently resides in Chicago. She has helped hundreds of companies with their digital marketing via her c...