Organisers

Hugh Lashbrooke

Hugh is a self-taught geek, PHP developer and father from Cape Town currently working as a lead developer at WooThemes. Outside of his work at WooThemes he has numerous plugins in the WordPress.org repo and is heavily involved in the local WordPress community.

Matt Royal

Self-taught Developer & Designer with a passion for all things web & an absolute lover of WordPress. I live for adventure & my beautiful daughter, I am a Former MMA fighter with a passion for Brazilian Jui-jitsu. My aim is to find more time to give back to the community that has given so much to me!

Cobus Bester

I have a great passion for good design, and pride myself in the attention to detail. I am currently designer and front-end developer at WooThemes.

Jeff Pearce

Most know me as Jeffikus. I’m a senior developer at WooThemes where I focus on PHP and JQuery. I work on our Theme Team, while also dabbling in applications written in NodeJS & AngularJS. Education is my passion!

Matt Cohen

Chief Product Officer at WooThemes. WordPress and web developer, musician and blogger. Lover of punk rock, innovation, business and 80s/90s cartoons.

Dominique Rossouw

I manage the daily operations at WooThemes and ensure that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. Apart from managing the Woo base I am a board member of a local animal rescue group and in my spare time can be found surrounded by four legged friends of the doggy variety.

Job Thomas

Hallo! I’m a Belgian living in Cape Town with a passion for education, training and WordPress, trying to combine the three at WooThemes. In my spare time I run an e-zine called CULTURESHOCK, and enjoy movies, music, photography, reading, travelling, good food and (Belgian) beer.