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Our mission is to Make People’s Lives Awesome.

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Matt
Danner
General Manager
Twitter!
Livin' the dream. Matt is a developer and overall nerd. He rides motorcycles, turns wood, and conjures portmanteaus. Matt began working at iThemes in May of 2009. You can usually find Matt judging drinking coffee. If you are bringing him a cup, make sure it's black. That frilly crap isn't for him.

Dev

Lew
Ayotte
Lead Developer
Twitter!
Call me Robin. Lew has been a Server Administrator and PHP developer for over a decade. In May of 2013, he joined the iThemes team as a plugin developer and loves it. He lives on a small farm in a small town in Georgia with his Wife, three kids, and a growing number of animals (24 and counting). Apart from coding, he enjoys hanging out with his family, eating delicious foods, tending to his farm, and listening to podcasts. He dislikes illogical arguments, laugh tracks, and corporatocracies.
Timothy-Rae
Jacobs
iThemes Security
Developer
Twitter!
Over-engineer. Timothy Jacobs is a WordPress developer at iThemes leading the development of the iThemes Security plugin. He's also a WordPress Core Committer, Component Maintainer of the WordPress REST API, and co-organizes the WP NYC Helpdesk Meetup. He lives in New York City, but Germany is his home away from home. The Ninth Doctor is his favorite and he’s eagerly awaiting a Torchwood reboot.
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Saylor
Holder
Designer &
Front End Developer
Twitter!
Design for users, not designers. Saylor writes blog posts and designs/develops various projects for iThemes. Saylor loves gardening and is currently at war with all squirrels (if anyone has tips on how to get rid of squirrels, she's all ears). If she's not traveling or hanging out in OKC, there’s a good chance she's in southwest Oklahoma doing manual labor, including roofing, or as her father likes to call it - “building character."
Josh Oakes
Josh
Oakes
Developer
Transforming caffeine into code. Josh works on all things iThemes Sync. When he isn't working he enjoys playing video games, working out, and going on walks with his girlfriend. He's an avid Rocket League player and is always looking for another duos partner.

Marketing

Kristen
Wright
Product Marketing Manager
Twitter!
It's up to you to choose a life that keeps expanding. Kristen has been with iThemes since 2011. You can usually find her at her standing desk, working on new articles for the iThemes blog or preparing the next email newsletter (so sign up!). Outside of work, Kristen enjoys journaling (she's written two books!), hiking and camping, cooking, and daily adventures with her family, hoping to live a more present life.
Sarah
Ulmer
Marketing & Content Specialist
Twitter!
Live life to the fullest. As our marketing specialist, Sarah works on providing helpful content for our customers and building the most beautiful spreadsheets you'll ever behold. When not at work, Sarah can be found at home with her husband Mike, and three boys, Devin, Braden and Austin, and their dogs Jojo, Riley and Saydee. She enjoys long family walks, running with her lab, Saydee, trips to the zoo and science museum and watching her two older boys play soccer. Sarah is originally from Texas and loves watching football games (Go Longhorns!)

Support

Elise Alley
Elise
Alley
Support Manager
Twitter!
See a need, fill a need. Elise likes to say she supports the support team here at iThemes. Her job is to make sure the support team has everything they need and to help them out any way she can. When not working, Elise spends time with her two dogs (Iggy Pup and Bowie) and her cat (Indie), her three nephews or her "little sister." She has an English Literature degree and still spends a lot of her time reading, especially the classics. She also enjoys baking treats for the iThemes office!
Ronald
van Weerd
Support
Twitter!
I don't know much, but I'm patient. Restless, traveler, IT Dinosaur (since 1985), and proud father of two. Ronald currently lives in the Netherlands and has been self-employed since 1992. He has since probably spent more time traveling than working. Or working while traveling. Next to being a Developer/Analyst/Project Manager & Consultant, he enjoys teaching, coaching, training, and transferring information and knowledge. He started using WordPress in 2006, tries to always learn a bit more, and shares that knowledge with the iThemes community.
Patti
Ream
Office Assistant
(& Painkiller)
Be kind to everyone and everything. In every word and in every deed. As the iThemes Wrangler, Patti handles all our workday needs. Patti's mission is to make sure the team has everything they need to do the task at hand. An adventurer at heart, Patti loves to travel to places she's never seen, do things she's never done. She loves to cook, garden and feed Mother Nature's children. Her favorite place is sitting on her back porch, drinking a cup of excellent coffee, looking over the fields during the day and watching the stars at night.
Thomas Oliver
Thomas
Oliver
BackupBuddy Support
When it comes to website development, security was my major and design was minor. Thomas has been developing sites with WordPress since 2010. He graduated from college with several degrees and a technical certificate, two being in technology, one in business, and one in accounting. He believes that when it comes to web development, experience has been his best teacher. When not providing support for BackupBuddy for iThemes, Thomas tries to make sure he keeps his mind moving by solving Rubix cubes one-handed. When he wants to just clear his mind, he goes for a drive in his old Ford Roush Mustang GT.
Rebecca Diamond
Rebecca
Diamond
Support
Just let me get to the end of this row … Rebecca has been using WordPress since 2006, and has made it her career since 2008. Translating developer-speak into end-user language is her specialty, and she thrives on helping others understand how intuitive and simple using WordPress can be. Since 2018, she’s worked for iThemes providing support and documentation for various iThemes plugins, and she loves to hear from you - really! When she’s not working, she’s usually hanging out with her husband of over two decades, their teenage son, and their three cats...she's just one cat shy of her lifelong goal of "Official Cat Lady". Either that, or she’s teaching knitting classes, designing knitting patterns, or dyeing yarn and knitting with it – because what’s cooler than 3D math that yields a wearable object?
Matt Cortinas
Matt
Cortinas
BackupBuddy Support
OSU! Matt grew up on the Texas Coast on a little island town where he played many video games, read many comic books, learned Okinawan Karate named Shorinji-Ryu, learned how to surf, and make sushi. Being an inquisitive individual, he enjoyed technology from an early age and began learning Linux in college but eventually had to get reacquainted with it later in life. Matt got his start in the tech industry through HostGator, later working with sister EIG companies, making a move over to WP Engine and now bringing all his experience and skills to supporting BackupBuddy.
Daphne
Haddad
Support
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers Daphne handles support for Restrict Content Pro and WPComplete. After work and on the weekends, Daphne enjoys spending time with her family, whether it's going on a walk, spending time with her dad, bringing the kiddos to their sports practices, going ice skating as a family, or finding something entertaining to do. She also just completed a certification as a Front-End Developer. Daphne grew up in Montreal, QC, which is pretty cool.
Jenny Klein
Jenny
Klein
Support
The bio is not so great but not too bad. Whatever ... Jenny has been building websites for 15 years, specializing in WordPress for the last 10. This was not the initial plan, however. At the age of four, she had planned to be a zoologist after interacting with an escaped llama that had made its way to the suburban housing tract where she lived with her parents and younger brother. Life happened, and she discovered that web design was both creative and provided an opportunity to play around with another favorite thing: patterns and the spaces in between.
Yobani Mendoza
Yobani
Mendoza
Support
w/e Yobani joined the iThemes team in 2019. He lives in Oklahoma City and works on both the BackupBuddy and iThemes Support teams.
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Matt
Musselman
Account Services
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t. Matt helps to manage accounts and subscriptions as well as assist prospective clients in their pre-sales needs. He also works with the iThemes Security team to assist with testing the new releases. When not at work, Matt enjoys spending time at home with his wife and two dogs while finding a new recipe to try out.

Training

Nathan
Ingram
Host, iThemes Training
Twitter!
Helping WordPress business owners grow. Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar. He is a growth coach for WordPress business owners, helping them become more successful in their businesses individually and in groups. Nathan is also the creator of MonsterContracts, a service that provides contracts for WordPress client work. He has been working with clients to build websites since 1995.

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