Marieke van de Rakt is the CEO at Yoast. She founded Yoast Academy and next to that manages marketing and the Yoast project teams. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure.

Marieke studied Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences in January 2011. Since then, she worked as a researcher as well as a teacher at multiple universities. Since the beginning of Yoast, Marieke has been involved in the company. As of September 2013, she gave up my position at the university and decided to focus solely on my activities at Yoast.

She is now one of the partners at Yoast. Together with Joost, Chaya, Thijs and Omar, Marieke runs Yoast. Marieke is married to Joost de Valk and they have four amazing children together.