Organisers

Global Team Leads

Two Global Team Leads will be overseeing the organisation of the event to help keep everything on track.

Bringing their professional expertise, previous WordCamp experience and their own individual touch, Lesley and José will help set the tone and energy for WCEU 2021 Online.

• José Ramón Padrón

  

  Spain
  @monchomad
  siteground.es

  SiteGround Spain Country Manager, co-organiser of WordPress MeetUp and WordCamp Las Palmas Gran Canaria. Customer care and sales enthusiast in the hosting sector for the last 21 years.

• Lesley Molecke

  

  UK
  @eckandgrumble
  cornershopcreative.com

  Lesley runs Cornershop Creative, a small WordPress agency that caters to non-profits in the United States. Gardener, cat and dog mom, and human mum too. Likes cookie dough more than cookies.-

Attendee Services Team

With this year’s online format, this team’s role is more important than ever. They will be available throughout the event, making sure attendees have all the information they need.

• Svetlana Guzovskaia

  

  Russia/Portugal
  @sveta_gsky

  Russian soul based in Lisbon. WordCamp volunteer and speaker, with a background in digital marketing, project management, customer support and UI/UX design. Foodie, digital nomad and a bit of a nerd.

• Felipe Santos

  

  Portugal / Brazil
  @felipelousantos
  felipels.com

  Felipe works as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. He loves being part of projects with strong social impact, and you can see him mostly at the Polyglots and Support teams on WP.org.

• Deval Talati

  

  Germany
  @DevalC

  Deval manages the Operations Department at Multidots Inc. She loves numbers and people interaction. 🙂 She thrived on challenging opportunities and always enjoys new learning opportunities. 

• Uros Tasic

  

  Serbia
  @wputasic

  Loves WordPress, food, travelling and meeting people. Every spare moment spent blogging, cooking and sitting glued in front of a laptop until eyes go crazy.

• Alex Bordei

  

  Romania
  @abordei
  alexbordei.dev

  A full time open source enthusiast, especially about WordPress and Flutter, and part-time IoT hobbyist. He says he probably has the same personality type as the inventor of hot pepper chocolate, he is crazy about connecting and integrating everything to always obtain a new system.

Budget Team

They are continuing to offer their financial expertise, helping to wrap up the event and reallocating the generous contributions from our sponsors.

• Justina Baskyte

  

  Lithuania
  
  

  Ecommerce expert & business owner nowadays, WP developer & PM in the past. Meetups organiser & speaker, lt_LT translator. Mom of 2, fan of cats, baking, classic rock & the colour red.

• Juan Hernando

  

  Spain
  @ciudadanob
  ciudadanob.com

  Freelance web developer, specialized in working with designers to create WP custom themes, long-time WP user, open web advocate. Co-organiser of WP Meetups and WordCamps in Pontevedra, Galicia

Communications Team

Collaborating closely with all the other organising teams to ensure that attendees are kept up-to-date on the latest WCEU developments via the WCEU blog and social channels.

• Sjoerd Blom

  

  Netherlands
  @sjblom
  vertizio.nl/

  A kind of Jack-of-all-trades caught between WordPress, cooking, traveling and aviation. Theme developer, customer support, polyglot, WordCamp volunteer, WordCamp organiser.

• Steve Mosby

  

  United Kingdom
  @Steve_NHS
  malgra.net

  Steve’s day job is managing major transformation programmes within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Away from the 9-5, he runs Malgra, an online community and bookkeeping service for self employed consultants.

• Janice Tye

  

  United Kingdom
  @123Design
  123design.co.uk

  Janice is a developer for WordPress, graphic and web designer. Small business owner. Organiser for Bristol WordPress people, co-lead WCBristol 2017. Lead for WCBristol 2019. Cat and gardening lover.

• Ina Morosanu

  

  Moldova
  @ina_moro
  

  Graphic Designer & Community Manager at WPZOOM. Passionate about user experience both online and offline, in love with layouts, interested in psychology and addicted to hot showers.

• José Freitas

  

  Portugal
  @josefreitas
  

  José helps companies create and run communications strategies to better communicate with customers. Using and building on WordPress since 2008. WordCamp Porto and Lisbon organiser. Former journalist.

Content Team

This team is responsible for putting together a rich and varied schedule of talks to inspire and entertain WCEU attendees.

• Aleksandar Savkovic

  

  Serbia
  @WPAleks
  cloudways.com

  WordPress Developer, Lecturer, the product guy interested in Agile product development. WordCamp and WP/Woo Meetup speaker and Organizer, and Community Manager at Cloudways. Also, a Formula 1 and MotoGP freak. Father of two boys.

• David Sojic

  

  North Macedonia
  @davidsojic

  WordPress developer at WebPigment. Member of the Macedonian Community, WordCamp Fan and Harley enthusiast.

• Magdalena Paciorek

  

  Poland
  @magda_paciorek

  WordPress evangelist and developer at cyber_Folks. Freelancer and WordCamp organizer after hours.

• Nikola Stulic

  

  Serbia
  @wp_scout
  wpscout.io

  Father of two beautiful girls. WordPress developer trapped inside the mind of a math teacher and vice versa. Translator and educator. Founder of WPScout. Often doodles the Greek letter Xi. Loves to wear suites and ties.

• Pedro Mendonça

  

  Portugal
  @pedro_gaspar

  Helps the Portuguese WordPress Community to preserve the translation quality and consistency. Translation Editor, i18n and l10n geek, designer, father of two, passionate about LEGO.

Contributing Team

The team is working on raising awareness of contributing to the WordPress project and highlighting all the different ways you can get started. Opportunities to enjoy and discover the contributor experience will now be integrated into the event days on 7-9 June 2021.

• Abha Thakor

  

  UK
  @nonstopnewsuk
  nonstopnews.co.uk

  Abha specialises in communications, tech and digital research / development, and is a speaker and trainer. She is a Marketing Team rep, on the Learn WordPress group, and member of other teams including community and WordPress.tv. She supports camps on access and inclusion, and has been promoting contributing for four years.

• Mark Smallman

  

  UK
  @macgraphic
  macgraphic.co.uk

  Working with WordPress since 2009, building on a career in photography and print design. His speciality is creating custom themes and sites using the platform. He started a local Meetup after and went on to be a WordCamp organiser locally. He has been involved in creating getting started materials for contributing during the last two years.

• Nick Krastev

  

  Bulgaria
  @NickyKrastev
  ntwebsites.com

  A digital marketer, and SEO & SEM specialist, he is passionate about WordPress. He is a translation editor and contributor in the project. WordCamp Sofia 2018, WordCamp Bulgaria 2020, WordPress Networking Walk and WordPress Sofia Meetup Co-organizer. He also loves jazz, travel and long distance running.

• Olga Gleckler

  

  Russia
  @Glekler

  A WordPress developer and marketer, with a background in advertising. She is a member of the Marketing Team and the Russian WordPress community, as well as a contributor to Polyglots, Support and Training teams. In her free time, she is a fiction writer.

• Pedro Fonseca

  

  Portugal/Brazil
  @pmfonseca1972

  He helps online businesses gain more clients using WordPress. He is an active member of the Portuguese WordPress community, a local meetup and WordCamp co-organiser. Contributes to the polyglot and support teams. A coffee addict.

• Timi Wahlahti

  

  Finland
  @wahalahti
  sipp.is

  Passionate cycling advocate who builds highly customised web services. Meetup and WordCamp organiser. Community Team Deputy. All things related to back-end.

• Yakovos Frountas

  

  Greece
  @froudas
  frountas.com

  Working with WordPress as a web developer. He is a co-organiser of the Athens WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Athens. In his spare time he enjoys developing open source projects and drinking coffee. He contributes to the polyglots team.

Design Team

The team behind WCEU’s distinctive style and support other teams in their visual communication needs.

• Roberto Tuñón

  

  Spain
  @rtunon_
  robertotunon.com

  Enthusiast of design and technology. He spends 120% of his hours creating different projects as a UI/UX and front-end designer, while learning something new every day.

• Flavia Bernárdez

  

  Spain
  @flabernardez
  flabernardez.com

  I design and develop digital solutions using user-centered techniches like Design Thinking. Since 2017 I organise WordPress Alicante Meetup. Also involved in side-projects about movies and cinema divulgation.

• Tammie Lister

  

  United Kingdom
  @karmatosed
  tammielister.com

  Tammie is a designer who is passionate about open source and an active contributor to WordPress. She currently works as Head of design for Extendify and is driven by a desire to create experiences that work for those using them, no matter what circumstances.

Live Production Team

This team will focus on everything that is needed to bring the event real time online.

• Fotis Routsis

  

  Greece
  @froutsis
  routsis.gr

  Athenian fullstack developer and proud member of the WordPress Greek community & WCGR/WCATH organiser! Loves to code and to scuba dive (not at the same time), but mostly he loves the big WP family!

• Nemanja Cimbaljevic

  

  Serbia
  @bikcrveni
  cimba.blog

  PHP, WordPress and WooCommerce backend developer. WP Expert with Codeable. Conference speaker, WordCamps co-organizer and volunteer. Co-organizer of local WP events in Serbia.

• Carlos Miguel Silva

  

  Portugal
  @carlosmiguelsns

  I’m a husband to a beautiful wife and father to 2 awesome kids. 1998, started with a 56 Kbp/s modem using Netscape 6.0. My philosophy is “programming is not a job but a lifestyle”.

Public Relations Team

This teams connects with media outlets worldwide to help put WCEU on the global events map. Through interviews with speakers and organisers in the run-up to the event, the PR team offers a taster of what attendees can look forward to at WCEU.

• Pantelis Orfanos

  

  Greece
  @ironwiller
  pantelisorfanos.com

  Founder/CEO of BrandSpark LLC. IBO/SP with MMP. Hellenic origin, living in Belgrade. Helping other people achieve more. Loves travelling, hiking, food, diving, Argentine tango & photography.

• Matt Ross

  

  United Kingdom
  @thisismattuk
  jaminternet.uk

  Matt is a keen WordPresser, having started building with it in 2017. He’s keen to make sure that everyone has a great WCEU, whether in person, or online.

• Evangelia Pappa

  

  Greece
  @EvangeliaPappas
  evangeliapappa.me

  Accounts & Billing Specialist @WPMU DEV, Blogger, WordPress Community enthusiast, passionate about involvement, openness, accessibility and volunteering. In love with travelling, people, cultures & customer support.

• Milica Đustebek

  

  Serbia
  @djustebek

  Fundraising professional focused on digital transformation of the nonprofit sector. Belgrade WP Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp speaker and volunteer. Passionate about cooking, kayaking and gin&tonic.

• Olga Kuvshinova

  

  Russia/Portugal
  @awesome_olga

  WordPress enthusiast WordPress enthusiast and WooCommerce evangelist, also an Account Manager @ Saucal

Sponsors Team

Working closely with our generous sponsors to ensure an enjoyable WCEU for all involved.

• Laura Sacco

  

  Italy
  @lausacco
  mentoredigitale.it

  Support Engineer at Yoast, digital mentor and new business consultant, Laura contributes to the WP Polyglots team, Meetup and WordCamp in Turin. In her spare time, Laura loves to read, swim and cook.

• Adrian Chiriac

  

  Romania

  Adrian is an Enterprise Accounts Executive, helping businesses collect and store data securely. Passionate about the WordPress community and first time WordCamp organiser.

• Valério Vaz

  

  Portugal
  @vvaz

  Valério is a Site Health Specialist @ Valet and sometimes a content creator and an educator. Joined the WordPress Portuguese community helping to organize local meetups and WordCamps.