Corporate Officers
Our SEO Experts
C. J. Newton
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
SEO Logic®
C. J. Newton is founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Mir Internet Marketing, a comprehensive Internet marketing firm founded in 1996. C. J. is a recognized SEO expert and leads our team in providing expert search engine optimization services to a wide range of businesses.
C. J. is active in the business community in Chicago and in the SEO community worldwide, and he volunteers his time and expertise to a number of organizations. He is also an Advisory Board member of El Bosque Nuevo, a not-for-profit organization working to preserve tropical rainforest areas in Costa Rica by preserving plant and animal species, sustaining human cultures, repairing ecosystems, and meeting human needs.
C. J. is active in working to create a set of standards and best practices in the SEO industry. He is the chairman of the Directory and Client Services Committee and sits on the executive board of SEOPros.org, the standard-setting organization of search engine optimization specialists. SEOPros.org is the only organization of search engine optimization specialists which holds its members to documented standards of professional behavior. Through the SEOPros.org SEO certification program, C. J. provides instruction in SEO marketing to those wishing to learn SEO. He is the author of a best practices in SEO white paper, "Guide to Search Engine Optimization," published in the Best Practices in Internet Marketing section of the American Marketing Association's Website as well as "How to Improve Your Search Engine Optimization," a white paper written for AdAge.
C. J. has researched search extensively, and acts as the primary author of our website content, including the Search Engine Marketing FAQ and our Search Engine Optimization Guides.
C. J. holds bachelor's and master's degrees in learning disabilities from Northwestern University.
Roderick Monje
Chief Technology Officer
SEO Logic®
As Chief Technology Officer, Roderick Monje shepherds SEO Logic's development efforts, focusing on innovation, standards, and simplicity. With over 18 years' experience in software, Rod is responsible for managing our technology decisions, architecture, and infrastructure.
Before joining SEO Logic, Rod co-founded Hapax Labs to solve business problems by combining leading-edge technology with agile, collaborative methods. In years prior, Rod was a software engineer in the advertising industry where he designed and implemented solutions for a broad range of clients including the US Army, Starbucks, and Morgan Stanley.
Rod holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Northwestern University. He now applies his literary eye to code.