Paris Childress
Founder
Paris's foray into Internet marketing began in 2003, and since then has spanned numerous projects in countries that include U.S., China, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. Paris founded Hop Online in the spring of 2009 with the aim of aggregating the Bulgaria talent potential and establishing a highly qualified search and social marketing outpost in the region. So far, so good.
Paris is a proud native of New Orleans and currently lives in Sofia, Bulgaria with his lovely wife, Kamelia, and daughter, Raya. Frequent excursions into and around the majestic mountains and small villages of Bulgaria keep him well-balanced.
Anastasia Alpaticova
Business Development Director
Anastasia is a marketing professional with over 10 years of experience spanning such sectors as telecommunications, media & publishing, wine making, NGOs and executive search. Her move to Hop Online enables to merge her ability to build long-term business relationships with her desire to be a part of the latest online marketing and social media developments.
Born in Ukraine and grown up in Moldova, she has extensively travelled across Europe, North America and Africa, with longer stays in North Africa, Hungary and the US. Anastasia is now living in Sofia, Bulgaria for her love of the Rila lakes, delicious food and passionate Balkan spirit. She speaks fluent English, Bulgarian, Russian and Romanian.
Out of the office, you can find her in a cozy town café enjoying a cappuccino and a good read, Kindle or real book (mystery, sociology, history, novel), or contemplating which language to study next, or planning her next trip.
Stanislav Dimitrov
Head of Search
Stan is a SEO specialist, PPC manager and social media enthusiast with passion for marketing and travel. He has 7 years of professional experience in search marketing, serving such clients as Nokia, UNICEF, Holiday Inn, Avon, Konika Minolta, Bulgaria Air, M-tel, Ideal Standard, Albena, MSI, Serdika Center, Central Cooperative Bank and Dbank.
Stan has lived in London, Dublin and Helsinki and has clearly adapted to the lower end of the temperature scale. He's a desperate Liverpool FC supporter and a regular Sunday team player. Stan lives in Plovdiv with his wife Margarita and daughter Tzvetelina.
Boyan Stoyanov
Search Marketing Specialist
As a founding team member of Hop Online, Boyan's project work has covered pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, SEO, link-building, and social media management. Currently his main focus is on PPC, where he manages tens of thousands of keywords across Google, Bing and Yahoo. His work covers three languages: English, German and Bulgarian. If you have questions about how to kick your ROIs up a notch, Boyan is the guy to ask.
A Sofia native and student of Physics, Boyan loves science, literature, history and theology. Most of his free time he spends with friends in the city or wandering in the wild. Prior to his current position, he lived and studied two years in Germany, then back in Bulgaria he worked almost two years and a half as a technical assistant at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bogdan Dimitrov
WEB Design & Development
Bogdan Dimitrov has over 13 years of experience in graphic design and branding having worked with a multitude of people and complex projects. He can zero in on what the customer wants and needs. Bogdan has previously worked in the printing industry and has a solid knowledge of prepress technology. In the last 5 years Bogdan started accumulating knowledge in WEB design and Digital Publishing. His focus is on producing tailored design for Joomla & WordPress based sites.
PC Software Experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Dreamwever, Flash, QuarkXPress, Corel DRAW, EXPRESS Harlequin RIP
Bogdan likes to stay on top of the new trends in Web Design and is always listening to cool music.
Daniela Penkova
SEO specialist at Hop Online
Daniela has been working as SEO specialist since 2004. Before joining Hop Online, she implemented Search Engine Optimization strategies across several websites of Address Real Estate. Daniela has gained a wealth of experience in developing and implementing internet marketing strategies to increase on-line presence, performing organic SEO activities such as: keyword research and ranking analysis; competitive market research; external link building and delivering the strategy for the client`s business.
Daniela is a wife, a mother, and she shares her experience as a parent in her personal blog.
