Our Team
Leadership
Josh Elkin
Founder
Josh has five years of digital marketing and entrepreneurship experience. He has an MBA from Kellogg, and while he misses life on the West Coast, he currently resides in his home town of New York City. In his spare time he enjoys tennis, cooking, skiing, biking, and trying to ensure his new puppy doesn’t eat every piece of trash on the NYC city streets.
Ben Yost
Founder and COO
Ben is an owner of Linkflow as well as the COO, building and overseeing our sales and marketing teams. As an experienced agency owner himself, he understands what it takes to run an agency. In his free time, he loves to spend time in nature, exploring the mountains or taking dive trips around the world in some tropical paradise. Ben also loves all things music, and going to rock and roll concerts when he can.
SEO
Michelle Fayssoux
Head of SEO
Michelle is a proud Orange County, California native with many years of experience helping clients improve their organic search performance. She has supported companies spanning a wide range of industries, including tech startups, e-commerce sites, and major SaaS brands. When she’s not writing about SEO or chatting with clients, she enjoys traveling, visiting local breweries, and staying active with her two dogs.
Jess Kim
SEO Analyst
Jess is part of the SEO team at Linkflow and has consulted & led the SEO efforts for companies ranging from local businesses to enterprises across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, consumer products, crypto and more. She was born and raised in New York City, where she currently resides. In her free time, she is busy exploring every nook and cranny of Queens and discovering all the local eateries that NYC has to offer.
Mike DeHart
SEO Analyst
Mike is part of the SEO Team. He has built and ranked dozens of websites on Google for numerous industries. Mike is from a place that most people don’t realize is a state AKA Delaware. He also spends too many hours surfing the internet in his free time which is how he got into SEO in the first place.
Link Operations
Gretel Bubnik
Client Success & Operations Associate
Gretel brings with her 4+ years of start-up experience to Linkflow. She has worked in operations, supply chain, brand management, customer service, product development, and marketing. Gretel resides in the great midwestern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although she loves cheese curds and beer as much as the next Wisconsinite, Gretel is a Certified Sommelier and prefers to pair her curds with a fine wine. Gretel also enjoys upholstery, gardening, traveling, and cooking.
Betsy Taube
Operations Associate
Betsy is a born writer with a nose for typos, an eye on the big picture, and an unshakable commitment to the customer. She has decades of cross-industry agency experience in content marketing, social media, and positioning. A die-hard Nor’Easter from Long Island and Philly, she lives for dogs, rock concerts, and her teenage daughter.
Alfonso Franco
Operations Associate
Alfonso is an Economist with nine years of experience in business administration in different areas including the health sector and industrial hardware wholesale stores. As a recent addition to our operations team, he brings a variety of skills related to firm management and customer relationships. A hardcore Barcelona and Patriots supporter, this history buff spends his spare time watching sports, going to music concerts, and enjoying the latest Stand Up comedy special.
Ivy Roush
Operations Associate
Ivy was born and raised in the Bay Area and now resides in the beautiful state of Colorado. Ivy comes to Linkflow with two years of start-up experience working in Operations. During her free time she loves to travel, hike, meditate, and spend time with her dog, Ruby.
Our Team
Marketing and Business Development
Pat McDonald
Head of Business Development
Pat is a Linkbuilding Consultant on Linkflow’s development team. He has more than 12 years of sales experience and knows how to effectively engage clients and give relevant information so they can make decisions to best help their company grow. He spends most of his free time with his family, especially watching his two kids in their many sports activities. He also loves to travel and try new foods!
Erika Taylor
Head of Marketing
Erika brings more than 15 years of experience in marketing and business development to Linkflow. She might be one of the first people you chat with before becoming a client! A native Seattle-ite, when she isn’t working, Erika enjoys hiking with her dog (even in the rain), traveling and exploring new places, and cheering on her son’s hockey team.
Kevin Gennette
Business Development Associate
Kevin started his professional life in public service, gaining the work ethic he puts forth today. For the past year, he has been recruiting for a marketing company. Kevin will never lose an opportunity to crack a joke. He is from, and currently resides in, New Haven County, or as locals like to call it, the Pizza Capital of America. Kevin loves his two dogs and enjoys collecting sports cards, the beach, local breweries and working out.
Our Team
Outreach
Markino Byrd
Outreach Associate
Markino built his first website in 2015 on WordPress, learned SEO and implemented what he learnt to improve his website. Now, with more than 6 years of SEO knowledge, he oversees publisher outreach to find high-quality websites to help our clients achieve the best SEO results possible. He loves playing basketball and battlefield games during his free time.