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A team of Market 8-ites

We are business strategists, busy partnership managers, creative UI/UX designers, search specialists driving the right traffic, forward-thinking developers and sharp copywriters - making growth happen.

We are the SaaS nerds, the tech lovers and the brand builders.

Eduardo Esparza MSIE
CEO and Founder

Eduardo Esparza, MSIE
CEO and Founder

Industrial Engineering Masters, Fortune 100 Strategy Executive, SaaS Positioning Expert. Eduardo drives the strategy and architecture process for Market 8 clients.

Sandra Ghaoui MBA
Co-Founder, Head of Growth Services

Sandra Ghaoui, MBA
Co-Founder, Head of Growth Services

Experienced SEO and SEM marketer with considerable pedigree including Siemens PLM and several IBM Implementation Partners.

Trevor Hatfield
Growth Partner

Trevor Hatfield
Growth Partner

Trevor Hatfield has helped build sales and marketing machines for hundreds of companies, from software startups to fortune 500 companies. Throughout his experiences he has been able to figure out proven strategies to solving growth problems by applying core principals and unique custom frameworks. Through these learning he has also been able to grow a valued network of professionals and a core team of specialists with every skill set needed to scale B2B SaaS businesses.

Joshua Waldman
Growth Advisor

Joshua Waldman
Growth Advisor

In the last 3 years, I grew and sold two SaaS Businesses and currently work with various B2B SaaS companies to achieve 10x growth.

Keeping my hands in building cool SaaS, I manage new awesome features development for Sunrise, an easy accounting platform for small businesses. By blending my marketing background with my understanding of software development, I'm able to prioritize what features the team needs to work on to optimize the user's experience and grow revenues.

Dave Vranicar
Strategic Advisor, Sales-Led Growth for Enterprise SaaS

Dave Vranicar
Strategic Advisor, Sales-Led Growth for Enterprise SaaS

Paul Stephenson
SaaS Growth Consultant

Paul Stephenson
SaaS Growth Consultant

Specialist SaaS growth consultant working helping SaaS companies sell more subscriptions and retain more customers by optimizing their entire funnel from lead capture to renewals.

Paul works with clients to determine the core value they deliver to customers and map the entire customer journey from Awareness, Acquisition, Activation, Revenue to Referrals.

By gaining a qualitative and quantitative understanding of customers using frameworks like Jobs To Be Done and actionable metrics he drives revenue and growth through data-driven experimentation, customer insights, and product positioning.

Dustin Drees
SaaS Growth Consultant PLG Focus

Dustin Drees
SaaS Growth Consultant PLG Focus

Matthew Baker BA
Partnerships Manager

Matthew Baker, BA
Partnerships Manager

Partnerships Manager - Consultant for 60+ SaaS firms. Matthew drives growth strategy and partner relationships for Market 8

Elie Hobeika MSCE
Lead Developer & Systems Engineer

Elie Hobeika, MSCE
Lead Developer & Systems Engineer

“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going” is best said to describe Elie. Our back-end AND front-end development ninja is quick, efficient and patient - this guy stops at nothing.

Elie is a HubSpot certified developer with extensive experience in the HubSpot COS amongst others.

In addition to being a top-notch developer, he is a principle-based leader who has led a large trading and event planning operation, just for fun.

George Hajj MSME
Sr. Developer

George Hajj, MSME
Sr. Developer

HubSpot COS Developer Certified - SCRUM Master - SCRUM Product Owner

George AKA Giorgio is a perfectionist at heart with a thirst for finding solutions. George has the patience of an archangel, and in his world there is never a problem - just multiple possibilities.

George is a designer turned Scrum Master developer which means he has a pretty unique view when developing your website. This also makes him our “Designoper” (that wasn’t a typo).

Aaron Gattinoni
Head of Operations

Aaron Gattinoni
Head of Operations

Social Media Advertising expert, US Army Logistics Officer, BS. Business Administration. Aaron drives growth through Social Media for Market 8 and SaaS clients.

Manal Akl MBA
Executive Assistant

Manal Akl, MBA
Executive Assistant

MBA in Management and BA in Hospitality, focused on quality assurance.

Manal brings 15 years of experience in assisting CEOs and supporting the team. She has worked extensively in quality assurance. Her dedication to customer success, communicating with internal and external customers has led her to participate in a myriad of projects supporting executives, clients and colleagues.

Nadim Jeili
Content Marketer

Nadim Jeili
Content Marketer

With a background in Filmmaking, Nadim worked as a Video Editor on award winning films and as a Marketing Coordinator for Arts, Festivals and Entertainment.

At Market 8, he is the main component of our Content Machine, producing podcast episodes and handling the organic outreach.

Oliver Kattan
Conversion-Centered UI Designer

Oliver Kattan
Conversion-Centered UI Designer

Besides his loyalty to some brands, Oliver loves creating experiences that people can relate to.

Whether digital or offline products, he gathers more than 10 years experience in managing and directing visual design projects.

Oliver makes users trust your product with a great design approach.

Sandra Germanos
UX/UI Designer

Sandra Germanos
UX/UI Designer

Innovative and accomplished UX/CX/UI Designer with experience providing comprehensive coordination of all product development activities from concept to market. With a strong conceptual background in graphic design and acquired solid knowledge in web design, UX/UI, and art directing, Sandra offers more than 14 years of expertise and visible leadership. Skilled in training, supervising, and mentoring talent. Holds a passion for photography, typography, colors, and patterns.

Ryan O'Connor
Project Manager

Ryan O'Connor
Project Manager

Social Media Advertising Specialist, Ops Management, BS. Business Administration.

Ryan utilizes data to drive growth through Social Media for Saas clients.

Petra Odak
Project Manager

Petra Odak
Project Manager

With more than 8 years of experience in various fields of digital marketing, corporate events, and project management, Petra enjoys bringing marketing solutions and a creative outlook to the table.

Alex Milner
Marketing Content Specialist

Alex Milner
Marketing Content Specialist

As the Marketing Content Specialist, Alex merges his passion for writing with his education in marketing and brand management.

Prior to joining Market 8, Alex worked in the non-profit sector as a full-time residential camp director, developing experiential education programs for children ages 4-18.

Alex has dreams of writing a book and visiting every U.S. National Park, and loves running, skiing, and spending time with his cat, Tigger.

Ana Batarelo
Marketing Content Specialist

Ana Batarelo
Marketing Content Specialist

Ana is a pizza-loving marketing consultant, copywriter, blogger, and content editor passionate about helping tech companies overcome digital marketing obstacles and communicate their messages to customers. She is focused on creating innovative and customer-friendly strategies for B2B business growth. Powered by coffee and specialized in self-criticism, Ana simplifies the complex, turns it into an engaging copy, and does her best proofreading right before she hits “Send.”

Apoorv Sharma
SEM Specialist

Apoorv Sharma
SEM Specialist

The Jack-Of-All-Trades. Good at understanding the why behind the what. With a background in growth marketing and running his own business, he brings valuable expertise in SaaS growth acceleration. Prior to Market 8, Apoorv has worked at brands and marketing agencies where he helped SaaS companies grow from a few thousand dollars into a few millions. Heck, The previous agency also got a HubSpot Impact Award for the client he was leading the marketing for.

Eddy Harb
UX Designer - Web Designer

Eddy Harb
UX Designer - Web Designer

UX Designer certified - Inbound Marketing Certified - Hubspot Certified.

Eddy’s experience as an Architect, Entrepreneur, and UX designer, has reinforced his passion for understanding and delighting customers as well as his problem-solving skills.

He always digs into customers’ habits, behaviours, and mental models, as well as the way they perceive and interact with their environment.

Eddy is Market 8’s Product Designer.

Chris Tate
Visual Brand Strategy

Chris Tate
Visual Brand Strategy

Chris Tate provides design leadership, creative direction, and forward-looking solutions that are both usable and delightful.

With over 10 years experience, Chris has provided award-winning solutions and products to companies such as ADP, Agilysys, Amazon, and Citibank.

At Protenus, Chris served as the Chief Design Officer where he oversaw the development of both the brand and product Chris helped Protenus raise over $32MM in funding.

Riad Chebli
Visual Emotions - Video Producer

Riad Chebli
Visual Emotions - Video Producer

Riad Chebli is Market 8's visual emotions creator.

He takes care of the video and motion graphics for Market 8 and leads the videography team.

He has a strong background in TV advertising and the music video business, and has extensive knowledge in all kinds of video formats and compression.

Kenneth Morales BSIT
Mid-Level Developer

Kenneth Morales, BSIT
Mid-Level Developer

WordPress and HubSpot COS Developer

Kenneth has been a freelancer since 2012. He earned the "Top Rated" status by building an impressive reputation on Upwork (formerly oDesk).

After years of success working solo, Kenneth eventually decided to join Market8 so that he could work with a team and further refine his skills.

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