Dan Soschin

What is your title and what company do you represent?

Director of Strategic Initiatives, WordPress.org @ Automattic, Inc.

What is your job description?

Nearly half of the world’s websites run on WordPress. My role is to introduce, inspire, and help the other half discover its power.

Where did you grow up?

The suburbs of Washington, D.C. (Northern Virginia)

What is your best piece of advice?

Find joy in everything you do, even the little stuff.

When you’re not at CWT what are you most likely doing?

Being a dad to two littles, aged 3 and 8; and a husband to my lovely wife who owns a Pilates studio in South Tampa.

Name a fun bit of trivia about yourself.

I once played the role of Grover (yes, that blue furry monster from Sesame Street) while lighting the Christmas tree at San Francisco’s Union Square with then Mayor, Gavin Newsom.