Karim Marucchi is the CEO of Crowd Favorite, the original WordPress agency, and has actively engaged in, and contributed to, the WordPress community for the last 7 years. HIs passion lies in finding innovative ways to help clients grow and thrive using Open Source-based solutions. Over several decades his career is a diverse track record of founding startup agencies, taking an agency public, and working within and across the WPP network of agencies throughout the United States and Europe to integrate traditional and digital teams. This wealth of experience in leading small and large international digital teams provides Karim with the foundation and institutional knowledge to lead Crowd Favorite into a growing, multinational organization..