Meet Yoast’s new leadership team!

Today, we proudly contiguous Yoast’s caller enactment team. The past twelvemonth has been rather the twelvemonth astatine Yoast. Big things happened astatine our beloved company. As the icing connected the cake, we’d present similar to present our caller leaders to you. Say hullo to Chaya, Marieke, Inge, Irene, Herre, Taco and me: the caller enactment squad that lives and breathes ‘SEO for everyone’!

The roadworthy to a caller enactment team

Times are changing. After our tremendous maturation implicit the past years, we joined Newfold Digital successful August 2021. Not excessively agelong aft that, successful November 2021, I (Thijs de Valk) picked up my caller relation arsenic CEO aft Marieke decided to measurement backmost from this position. In March 2022, Joost announced that helium volition transition to an advisory position wrong the company. Moreover, my bully person and erstwhile CTO Omar precocious decided to prosecute different dreams aft 8 years of afloat dedication to Yoast.

Omar has ever been an indispensable portion of Yoast and helped signifier our products into what they are today. He is liable for getting our improvement squad up and running. Omar started retired astatine Yoast successful 2014 with tons of ambition, a bold tone and countless ideas connected however to marque improvements. And helium decidedly lived up to everything. Omar is an incredibly originative thinker, a strategist, and a believer successful Yoast and our products. The full Yoast household wishes him each the best!

With each these changes the request for a caller enactment squad grew. That’s wherefore we’re highly blessed to contiguous an awesome caller enactment squad – with immoderate acquainted and caller faces – that volition usher Yoast done these caller and breathtaking times!

The caller Yoast leaders

First, the acquainted faces: I volition stay to beryllium astatine the helm of Yoast, starring the institution into this caller era. But I won’t beryllium alone. Chaya, arsenic caput of operations, volition support overseeing the day-to-day operations. She focuses connected moving creaseless and optimized concern processes to get Yoast to the adjacent level and assistance everyone present determination forward. Marieke volition beryllium the caput of strategy, focusing connected the way we should take, successful our products and arsenic a company. She volition marque definite we support increasing and flourishing successful Yoast-style.

But determination are besides a batch of caller faces connected our enactment team! We’d similar you to conscionable Irene, our caller caput of probe and improvement (R&D). At Yoast, she’s grown from a linguist to an engineering manager to the enactment presumption wherever she’s now. She’s highly dedicated to support connected delivering radical large experiences with our products and gathering a much divers improvement team. She volition enactment intimately with Herre, our caller caput of technology. With our talented method teams, he’ll strive for method excellence and providing users with the champion and astir unchangeable bundle successful the industry.

And, Taco, a very acquainted look astatine Yoast and successful the WordPress assemblage is taking up the relation of caput of relations. He knows our communities, customers, and partners similar nary other. He loves to nurture and amended the relationships with each radical we interact with. And last, but decidedly not least, Inge, our caller caput of selling is profoundly driven to support Yoast growing, bring crossed our values, and physique selling teams that enactment unneurotic seamlessly.

Want to get to cognize our leaders a spot better? Check retired our leadership squad page.

The roadworthy ahead

So what does this enactment alteration mean? Of course, our ngo “SEO for everyone” won’t change. We’re inactive dedicated to offering each and everyone adjacent chances successful the hunt results with our bundle and acquisition material. We’re inactive dedicated to making SEO accessible and casual for everyone, wherever oregon whoever you are.

I americium 100% assured that this talented enactment squad volition not lone support our institution connected people but volition besides assistance Yoast and our squad of Yoasters thrive successful each mode possible!