Renee Girard

Renee Girard is a board member and Programming Director at MKE DMC, and Director of SEO at Whitepages, one of the most-visited sites in the U.S. She leads organic strategy for a 5-billion-page portfolio. Since 2011 she has built SEO programs that survive algorithm updates, scale across engineering teams, and thrive in AI search. Courtesy of reverse centauring between her Claude and her engineers' Claude.

Before Whitepages, she built the SEO Center of Excellence at Crate & Barrel Holdings from scratch, scaled the team 4x, and generated $5M in incremental organic revenue. She mentors through Women in Tech SEO and volunteers teaching SEO to underrepresented small business owners because she believes visibility is power and that more people deserve to claim it.

She lives in Milwaukee with her spoiled ex-South American street dog, Rocky "Niño" Javier. If you mention search, AI, or Google at an MKE DMC event, she will find you. Consider yourself warned and welcomed.