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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, Web Strategist

Sandra Ghaoui, MBA
Co-Founder, Web Strategist

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.

Joseph Karim
Partnership Manager

Joseph Karim
Partnership Manager

Certified Product Marketing Manager and Growth Product Management Expert. With over 10 years of tech start-up, product, marketing, and sales experience. Joseph understands the entire customer journey from Awareness, Acquisition, Activation, Revenue to Referrals. He drives revenue & growth through data-driven experimentation, customer insights, and product positioning frameworks.

Deanna Biegun
Partnership Manager

Deanna Biegun
Partnership Manager

exSilicon Valley Startup Sales Manager turned Marketing Partnership Manager.

Deanna understands global sales markets, marketing strategies, and enjoys keeping stakeholders in the know.

Matthew Baker
Partnership Manager

Matthew Baker
Partnership Manager

Growth Strategist - Consultant for 60+ SaaS firms. Matthew drives growth strategy for Market8, SaaS and Tech companies globally.

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).

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.

Brian Schofield
SEO Manager

Brian Schofield
SEO Manager

Forbes Communications Council, BS in Business Administration, Marketing & Economics. Brian leads the organic growth strategy for clients at Market 8.

Aaron Gattinoni
Growth Marketer

Aaron Gattinoni
Growth Marketer

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

Nadim Hejeili
Content Marketer

Nadim Hejeili
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.

Federico Jorge
Conversion Centered Copywriter

Federico Jorge
Conversion Centered Copywriter

Federico has a background in advertising and has worked with multiple global clients over the years, doing strategy, creative and copy. For the past 3 years he’s been focusing on conversion copywriting for SaaS companies. He’s a problem-solver, easygoing, never-miss-a-deadline kind of guy.

Federico is behind the copywriting of companies like Aaron Krall, FindThatLead, Gratify and Hunch.

Dave Barton
Creative copywriter

Dave Barton
Creative copywriter

Schooled in B2B PR (back in the days when MySpace was still a thing), today Dave helps international startups and SaaS companies hit on an individual style and tone that sets them apart in the global marketplace.

He does this through blogs, web copy, in app content, social media, video scripts, and other word-related stuff.

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.

Ryan O'Connor
Jr. Growth Marketer

Ryan O'Connor
Jr. Growth Marketer

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

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

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.

Diana Zareiko
Junior Developer

Diana Zareiko
Junior Developer

Hubspot CMS & Linda Front-End Developer Certified

Diana is extremely motivated and a fast learner.

With a personality combining patience, perfectionism, a high aesthetic and theoretical values, she brings high quality work always on time.

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Julia Dsouza BCom
Website Craftsman & QA

Julia Dsouza, BCom
Website Craftsman & QA

Inbound Marketing Certified - HubSpot Certified

Julia is a website craftswoman with Market 8. She claims to be shy - but we think it’s an excuse she uses to side-step constant interruptions - she pulls off superwoman-like amounts of work without losing sight of the details, UX integrity and project deadlines.

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